Bachelor of Early Childhood Education (Birth to Five Years)

BEarlChildEd(B-5)

Credit points

320

Minimum duration

4 years full-time or equivalent part-time.

Approved locations

• Ballarat
• Blacktown
• Brisbane
• Canberra
• Melbourne
• North Sydney
• Strathfield
• Online

Note:

Ballarat, Victoria (subject to viable cohorts) (Not offered in 2022)

Blacktown, NSW (subject to viable cohorts) (Not offered in 2022)

Canberra, ACT (subject to viable cohorts) (Not offered in 2022

North Sydney, NSW (subject to viable cohorts) (Not offered in 2022)

EFTSL value of units : All 10 cp units in this course have an EFTSL value of 0.125. Units with a cp value of a multiple of 10 have corresponding EFTSL values.

Admission requirements

Completion requirements

To qualify for the degree, a student must complete 320 cp from the Schedule of Unit Offerings, consisting of:

1. 70 cp from Education Studies (Part A)
2. 60 cp from Effective Teaching Units (Part B)
3. 170 cp from Early Childhood Units (Part C)
4. 20 cp from Core Curriculum Units (Part D)

Other requirements

1. Students must pass all professional experience components, including professional experience embedded within units.
2. Requirements for working with children: All students enrolled must have the appropriate approvals before they may enter a classroom. These are: Blue Card (Qld) or Working with Children Check (ACT, NSW and Vic), or equivalent requirements in other states and territories. International students must bring police check documentation from their own countries. To meet the requirements for working in settings other than schools, a National Police check may be required. All students who have lived in another country for 12 months or more must provide a police check from that country for that period.

Exit points

A student who has successfully completed the following requirements may exit from the course with that qualification:[1]

1. Non-Award Certificate in Educational Studies
2. Diploma in Educational Studies (Tertiary Preparation)
3. Bachelor of Educational Studies

1. None of these qualifications qualifies a student to teach in Australia.
2. For Indigenous students undertaking the course, the unit codes will begin with A in place of the first letter of the unit codes listed in the Schedule of Unit Offerings. Unit codes beginning with A are available only to Indigenous students.

Part A : Education Studies

Complete exactly 70 credit points from the following:

Code	Title	Credit Points	Notes
EDES100	Understanding Learning and Teaching	10
EDES101	Educational Thought	10
EDES103	Understanding Learners and Their Contexts	10
EDES104	Digital Cultures and Capabilities	10
EDES105	Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Knowledges, Histories and Cultures	10
EDES300	Comparative Education: Local and Global Contexts	10
EDES302	Professional Communication	10

Part B : Effective Teaching Units

Complete exactly 60 credit points from the following:

Code	Title	Credit Points	Notes
EDET100	Effective Teaching 1: Becoming a Teacher	10
EDET111	Effective Teaching 2: Curriculum Planning and Pedagogy	10
EDET211	Effective Teaching 3 Positive Environments to Engage Young Learners	10
EDET300	Effective Teaching 4: Students with Disability and Inclusive Education	10
EDET460	Effective Teaching 5: Understanding and Implementing Assessment and Data Informed Practice	10
EDET461	Effective Teaching 6: Professional Engagement and Reflection	10

Part C : Early Childhood Units

Complete exactly 170 credit points from the following:

Code	Title	Credit Points	Notes
EDAR164	Nurturing Creativity in Young Children	10
EDAR460	Arts as Meaning in Early Childhood	10
EDEC100	Health, Family and Young Learner Wellbeing in the Early Years	10
EDEC111	Early Years Curriculum and Play-Based Pedagogies	10
EDEC211	Infant and Toddler Studies	10
EDEC310	Young Children's Social and Emotional Competence in Early Childhood Contexts	10
EDEC314	Leadership, Management, Administration and Advocacy	10
EDEC360	Professional Identities in Early Childhood	10
EDEC366	Positive Environments for Learning and Development	10
EDEC461	Pedagogy of Relationships in Early Childhood	10
EDEN100	Foundations of Literacy	10
EDEN102	Children's Literature for Early Reading	10
EDEN290	English Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment 1 (B-8)	10
EDMA163	Exploring Mathematics and Numeracy	10
EDMA290	Mathematics Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment 1 (B-12)	10
EDSI168	Science, Inquiry and Sustainability	10
EDTE260	Technologies Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment in the Early Years	10

Part D : Core Curriculum Units

Complete exactly 20 credit points from the following:

Code	Title	Credit Points	Notes
UNCC100	Self and Community: Exploring the Anatomy of Modern Society	10
OR
PHCC102	Being Human	10
OR
PHCC104	Ethics and the Good Life	10

Code	Title	Credit Points	Notes
UNCC300	Justice and Change in a Global World	10
OR
PHCC320	The Just Society	10