Curriculum, Planning and Assessment for Infants: Practicum 3E
Overview
Pre-service teachers will develop knowledge, skills and dispositions needed to teach infants and toddlers effectively. Within the allocated timeframe, pre-service teachers will undertake 20 days of professional experience in an approved early childhood setting, with children aged birth to two years. Major emphasis is given to respectful relationships, the potential for learning opportunities throughout the child’s total experience in early learning settings and the critical importance of knowing children in the context of family, community and culture. These knowledge, skills and dispositions will be used and extended under the supervision of an experienced and qualified teacher.
Requisites
Rule
187.5 credit points in B.Ed (Primary)
AND
EDU10001 Introduction to Curriculum Planning and Assessment: Practicum 1
OR
EDU10027 Introduction to Curriculum Planning and Assessment for Primary: Practicum 1
09-February-2025
01-June-2025
08-June-2025
05-October-2025
08-February-2026
Learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
- Express a clear rationale for using an appropriate curriculum for babies and toddlers
- Plan and construct rich learning environments indoors and outdoors and use a range of teaching practices and resources that engage infants and toddlers in learning appropriate to their interests, abilities and needs
- Communicate and relate to families respectfully and in ways that demonstrate awareness of the particular importance of collaboration and shared decision making
- Plan, implement and evaluate learning experiences that demonstrate the ability to articulate aims, objectives, procedures, outcomes and evaluation practices
- Assess and document children’s development and learning in collaboration with families in a variety of ways that lead to a deep and broad basis for planning curriculum
- Model respectful and sensitive interaction with very young children (birth to two years) in ways that lead to establishing and strengthening relationships that support learning
- Apply your knowledge and understanding of pedagogical approaches to promote children’s learning and wellbeing in ways that are responsive to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, doing and being
Teaching methods
Swinburne Online
| Type | Hours per week | Number of weeks | Total (number of hours) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Placement Placement | 37.50 | 4 weeks | 150 |
| Online Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning | 6.25 | 12 weeks | 75 |
| TOTAL | 225 |
Hawthorn
| Type | Hours per week | Number of weeks | Total (number of hours) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Live Online Class | 1.00 | 12 weeks | 12 |
| On-campus Class | 2.00 | 12 weeks | 24 |
| Placement Placement | 37.50 | 4 weeks | 150 |
| Unspecified Activities Various | 3.25 | 12 weeks | 39 |
| TOTAL | 225 |
Assessment
| Type | Task | Weighting | ULO's |
|---|---|---|---|
| Professional Experience Portfolio | Individual | 0% | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 |
| Professional Experience Report | Individual | 0% | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 |
Content
- Infant learning and development
- Self-assessment of teaching performance
- Planning and assessing infant learning
- Recognising individual differences and supporting learning accordingly
- Engaging collaboratively with colleagues and families
- Creating and maintaining healthy, safe and rich learning environments that support learning
- Helping infants begin to learn to guide their own behaviour
- Strategies for evaluating learning and teaching programs to improve learning
- Teaching strategies and resources for supporting and assessing infant learning
- Routines and transitions
- Sensorial play
- Attachment theory and its implications for practice
- Code of Ethics and professional standards
Study resources
Reading materials
A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.