ECE212 - Curriculum 3: Planning and Assessment for Teaching and Learning
| Year: | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Online, Community Based Delivery (CBD)* 2025 will be the final offering for this unit. |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Cohort rule: | This unit is only available to students enrolled in E330, E333 or E334 |
| Prerequisite: | Students must have passed 5 credit points at level 1 including unit ECE111, ECE112 and ECP128 |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Study commitment | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus | Before the trimester: 1 x 1.5-hour online transition to university (seminar) per week, for first 3 weeks of February During the trimester: 1 x 3-hour on-campus seminar per week in non-placement teaching weeks (approx. 6-7 weeks) 1 x 1-hour online seminar (placement partnership) per trimester NIKERI (CBD): 3 x 6-hour on-campus intensive (workshops/seminars) per trimester 1 x 1-hour online seminars per week for 8-weeks |
| Scheduled learning activities - online | Before the trimester: 1 x 1.5-hour online transition to university (seminar) per week, for first 3 weeks of February During the trimester: 1 x 1.5-hour online seminar per week in non-placement teaching weeks (approx. 6-7 weeks) 1 x 1-hour online seminar (placement partnership) per trimester |
| In-person attendance requirements | 20-days on-site professional experience (placement) per trimester in early childhood education setting. For the most up-to-date advice regarding your professional experience (placement) please see here. |
| Note: | *Community Based Delivery (CBD): only for students of the National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation NIKERI Institute (located at the Waurn Ponds campus) |
Content
This unit will provide students with opportunities to engage with the education and care of children from 3 - 4 years of age. In a professional experience placement, students will engage young children, teachers and families and will be able to critically analyse and reflect on the components of contemporary learning environments and programmes for young children.
This unit provides a context for students to explore the relationship between documentation, planning, assessment and evaluation for learning with children aged 3 - 4 years. It builds on the students' existing experience and knowledge of young children’s learning and development to support the development of responsive and respectful pedagogies that respect the child as a confident and involved individual. The unit will critique contemporary theoretical perspectives and curriculum approaches influencing early childhood pedagogy and practice both in Australia and globally, with a focus on child-centred practice as a context for learning. Students will continue to construct understandings about developing effective relationships and successful teaching interactions with children. They will also continue to develop teaching practices that promote children’s inquiry, thinking and problem-solving skills to become confident and competent learners within their own cultural contexts, and develop their capacity to design and assess dynamic and challenging learning environments for both individual and groups to achieve optimum learning outcomes.
During the placement, students will practice the implementation of the planning cycle with a small group of focus children. They will assess and analyse their learning to set learning goals that provide achievable challenges for the varying abilities and characteristics of the children, and respond to these through planning, implementation and evaluation of learning experiences. Throughout these tasks, student will critically analyse and reflect on their professional practice and teaching identity alongside their mentor teacher. Reflective practice will allow students to evaluate their programming and build their professional identity as early childhood teachers.
Hurdle requirement
| Brief summary of assessment tasks and hurdle requirement | Rationale | Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|
| Assessing the Professional experience for students enrolled in School of Education courses, the professional experience component is assessed primarily by the class-based teacher who advises the Unit Chair. Satisfactory completion of the Professional Experience component is compulsory in order for the student to progress. (20-days) Pre-Service Teachers cannot pass this unit without successful completion of the Safer Learners module | Successful completion of practical teaching experience is a requirement of the Victorian Institute of Teaching and ACECQA. ECE212 has a professional experience component of 20-days embedded and as such, the academic tasks and practical teaching knowledge and competencies must be successfully completed in order to pass this unit. If students do not pass either the professional experience (placement) or assessment parts of this unit, the entire unit, including professional experience (placement) will need to be repeated. | GLO 1 GLO 2 GLO 4 GLO 5 |
Unit Fee Information
Fees and charges vary depending on the type of fee place you hold, your course, your commencement year, the units you choose to study and their study discipline, and your study load.
Tuition fees increase at the beginning of each calendar year and all fees quoted are in Australian dollars ($AUD). Tuition fees do not include textbooks, computer equipment or software, other equipment or costs such as mandatory checks, travel and stationery.
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Commonwealth Prac Payment
From 1 July 2025, the Australian Government is intending to introduce the Commonwealth Prac Payment (CPP) to assist eligible students with costs related to mandatory placements in higher education courses for teaching, nursing, midwifery and social work.