Education - Early Childhood Education

This course prepares students to work as educators in early childhood settings. The course targets the instruction and care of children from birth and students with professional learning how to foster positive learning and development in babies, toddlers and preschool aged kids. Emphasis is devoted to developing partnerships with families of young kids and cooperating with other professionals in encouraging young kids in their learning and development. Pupils develop proficiency in pedagogical approaches through professional working experience, projects as well as different technical learning experiences and create links with theory and practice attracted from both Australian and international contexts and research. Students have to undertake a minimum 80 weeks of supervised practitioner placements across the whole period of the course at a range of early childhood settings.

As recognised 4-year qualified early childhood educators, graduates may work in every fields of early childhood. Our early youth credentials are licensed by the credentials committee of Early Childhood Australia Inc. (Victorian Branch), which guides that the Rhode members of the Department of Human Services and the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development.

You have to have successfully completed two decades of study in a Bachelor of Education or Bachelor of Early Childhood Education (or foreign equivalent).