Curriculum, Planning & 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.

Learning outcomes

Teaching methods

Swinburne Online

Assessment

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