EUN665 Professional Experience in Early Childhood
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| Unit code: | EUN665 |
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| Equivalent(s): | EDN635 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Assumed Knowledge: Completion of all other early childhood study area units prior to, or in the same semester as EUN665 is assumed knowledge. |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
| Availabilities |
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| CSP student contribution | $555 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $2,976 |
| International unit fee | $4,020 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Online
| Unit code: | EUN665 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | EDN635 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Completion of all other early childhood study area units prior to, or in the same semester as EUN665 is assumed knowledge. |
Overview
This unit will enable you to draw upon your professional knowledge and experience in making child observations and in planning, implementing and evaluating learning experiences for children and to critically reflect upon your experiences in the early childhood setting, making links to current literature in the field. The professional experience component of this course provides opportunities for the demonstration of competence in working with young children in a planned environment.
This is a designated unit which is essential to your course progression. Designated units include professional experience units, units requiring the development of particular skills, and units requiring demonstration of certain personal qualities. If you fail to achieve a satisfactory level of performance in a designated unit, you may be excluded from enrolment or will be put on academic probation. If you fail a designated unit twice within your course, you may be excluded. Supplementary assessment is not available on designated units.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Mastery of a body of knowledge including understanding recent developments in the field of early childhood (CLO1.1).
- Critical reflection on theoretical knowledge and professional practice (CLO2.1)
- High level knowledge and skills necessary to design, evaluate, implement, analyse and theorise learning and teaching within the capstone early childhood professional experience (CLO2.4, CLO3.2).
- Technical and communication skills required of scholarly professional practice (CLO2.4).
- Creativity, initiative, autonomy, accountability and ethical practice in enacting learning and teaching in the early years (CLO3.1).
Content
You will complete a 30 day (6 weeks) professional experience with children in an early childhood setting. You are expected to become familiar with the operation of the program prior to the professional experience. Given your existing professional status and experience, a professional standard of communication, both written and interpersonal, is expected. The unit offers a series of modules related to facets of early childhood education including contemporary issues around leadership, physical and health education for young children (including their well-being and safety), and supporting children and families from diverse background, including different learning styles, and pedagogies that include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives.
Learning Approaches
This professional experience unit is undertaken in an early childhood setting for 30 days (6 weeks). Under your host teacher's supervision you will work progressively towards assuming responsibility for all aspects of the teaching role, including working with individual, small and large groups of children, and assuming responsibility for the management and administration of the learning environment. As part of the professional experience, you will also be expected to implement and critically reflect upon a variety of positive behaviour strategies that help support young learners to productively engage in the curriculum. These processes will also involve communicating, interacting and forming partnerships with families, community and staff. The unit also provides opportunities to reflect on your experiences (in order to develop one's own professional identity), making links with current literature related to the early childhood education field.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Students can expect formative feedback as part of engaging with the staff and peers in online discussions. Summative feedback will be provided in the form of assessment rubrics and comments on assignments.
Assessment
Overview
Assessment in this unit is both formative and summative. Formative assessment is provided through feedback in email discussions and phone calls, written comments on assignment work, and feedback from staff. To gain a passing grade for this unit overall, both of the assessment items must be satisfactorily completed. Students who do not successfully complete all assessment items will be required to repeat the entire unit including the 30 days professional experience.
Unit Grading Scheme
S (Satisfactory) / U (Unsatisfactory)
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Early Childhood Professional Experience Portfolio
Early Childhood Professional Experience Portfolio drawing on national early years curriculum documents (i.e., Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) and the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA)).
Relates to learning outcomes
Course Learning Outcomes
CLOs 1.1, 2.1, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Final Professional Experience Report
30 days (6 weeks) of professional experience to be undertaken in an appropriate early childhood setting. A minimum of 10 days of supervised professional experience with children aged birth to under 3 years old (0 - 35 months) MUST be completed. The remaining 20 days must be completed in a supervised early childhood setting with children aged 3 until before they start formal schooling. Professional experience is graded on a Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory basis.
Relates to learning outcomes
Course Learning Outcomes
CLOs 1.1, 2.1, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2
Threshold Assessment:
To achieve a satisfactory result all professional experience criteria must be marked as Satisfactory.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
A blue card is required to complete this unit. A blue card confirms that you have passed a screening of your criminal history (the Working with Children Check) and have been approved to work with children and young people. For more information on the blue card and how to apply please visit the QUT website.
Blue Card
A blue card is required to complete this unit. A blue card confirms that you have passed a screening of your criminal history (the Working with Children Check) and have been approved to work with children and young people. For more information on the blue card and how to apply please visit the QUT website.
Resources
The following resource materials will be used throughout this unit.
Resource Materials
Prescribed text(s)
Arthur, L., Beecher, B., Death, E., Dockett, S., & Farmer, S. (2020). Programming and planning in early childhood settings (8th ed.). Cengage [Available as an eBook from the QUT Library]
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out-of-the ordinary risks associated with the general conduct of this unit. Workplace health and safety protocols in relation to computer use will apply.
The Commission for Children and Young People Act 2000 (Qld) requires that all students undertaking a Professional Experience as part of this unit will need a valid suitability card or Blue Card which has been registered with QUT before they can commence their placement. Please refer to Blue Card for full details and appropriate forms.
Managing the risk associated with your professional experience is bound in an agreement with the systemic employment bodies and individual sites where necessary. The Workplace Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld) places duties of care on everyone to ensure the health and safety of themselves and others in the workplace.
Students should be aware of and comply with the QUT work integrated learning policy under QUT's Assessment Policy is at MOPPC/4.4
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Online
| Unit code: | EUN665 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | EDN635 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Completion of all other early childhood study area units prior to, or in the same semester as EUN665 is assumed knowledge. |
Overview
This unit will enable you to draw upon your professional knowledge and experience in making child observations and in planning, implementing and evaluating learning experiences for children and to critically reflect upon your experiences in the early childhood setting, making links to current literature in the field. The professional experience component of this course provides opportunities for the demonstration of competence in working with young children in a planned environment.
This is a designated unit which is essential to your course progression. Designated units include professional experience units, units requiring the development of particular skills, and units requiring demonstration of certain personal qualities. If you fail to achieve a satisfactory level of performance in a designated unit, you may be excluded from enrolment or will be put on academic probation. If you fail a designated unit twice within your course, you may be excluded. Supplementary assessment is not available on designated units.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Mastery of a body of knowledge including understanding recent developments in the field of early childhood (CLO1.1).
- Critical reflection on theoretical knowledge and professional practice (CLO2.1)
- High level knowledge and skills necessary to design, evaluate, implement, analyse and theorise learning and teaching within the capstone early childhood professional experience (CLO2.4, CLO3.2).
- Technical and communication skills required of scholarly professional practice (CLO2.4).
- Creativity, initiative, autonomy, accountability and ethical practice in enacting learning and teaching in the early years (CLO3.1).
Content
You will complete a 30 day (6 weeks) professional experience with children in an early childhood setting. You are expected to become familiar with the operation of the program prior to the professional experience. Given your existing professional status and experience, a professional standard of communication, both written and interpersonal, is expected. The unit offers a series of modules related to facets of early childhood education including contemporary issues around leadership, physical and health education for young children (including their well-being and safety), and supporting children and families from diverse background, including different learning styles, and pedagogies that include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives.
Learning Approaches
This professional experience unit is undertaken in an early childhood setting for 30 days (6 weeks). Under your host teacher's supervision you will work progressively towards assuming responsibility for all aspects of the teaching role, including working with individual, small and large groups of children, and assuming responsibility for the management and administration of the learning environment. As part of the professional experience, you will also be expected to implement and critically reflect upon a variety of positive behaviour strategies that help support young learners to productively engage in the curriculum. These processes will also involve communicating, interacting and forming partnerships with families, community and staff. The unit also provides opportunities to reflect on your experiences (in order to develop one's own professional identity), making links with current literature related to the early childhood education field.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Students can expect formative feedback as part of engaging with the staff and peers in online discussions. Summative feedback will be provided in the form of assessment rubrics and comments on assignments.
Assessment
Overview
Assessment in this unit is both formative and summative. Formative assessment is provided through feedback in email discussions and phone calls, written comments on assignment work, and feedback from staff. To gain a passing grade for this unit overall, both of the assessment items must be satisfactorily completed. Students who do not successfully complete all assessment items will be required to repeat the entire unit including the 30 days professional experience.
Unit Grading Scheme
S (Satisfactory) / U (Unsatisfactory)
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Early Childhood Professional Experience Portfolio
Early Childhood Professional Experience Portfolio drawing on national early years curriculum documents (i.e., Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) and the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA)).
Relates to learning outcomes
Course Learning Outcomes
CLOs 1.1, 2.1, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Final Professional Experience Report
30 days (6 weeks) of professional experience to be undertaken in an appropriate early childhood setting. A minimum of 10 days of supervised professional experience with children aged birth to under 3 years old (0 - 35 months) MUST be completed. The remaining 20 days must be completed in a supervised early childhood setting with children aged 3 until before they start formal schooling. Professional experience is graded on a Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory basis.
Relates to learning outcomes
Course Learning Outcomes
CLOs 1.1, 2.1, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2
Threshold Assessment:
To achieve a satisfactory result all professional experience criteria must be marked as Satisfactory.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
A blue card is required to complete this unit. A blue card confirms that you have passed a screening of your criminal history (the Working with Children Check) and have been approved to work with children and young people. For more information on the blue card and how to apply please visit the QUT website.
Blue Card
A blue card is required to complete this unit. A blue card confirms that you have passed a screening of your criminal history (the Working with Children Check) and have been approved to work with children and young people. For more information on the blue card and how to apply please visit the QUT website.
Resources
The following resource materials will be used throughout this unit.
Resource Materials
Prescribed text(s)
Arthur, L., Beecher, B., Death, E., Dockett, S., & Farmer, S. (2020). Programming and planning in early childhood settings (8th ed.). Cengage [Available as an eBook from the QUT Library]
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out-of-the ordinary risks associated with the general conduct of this unit. Workplace health and safety protocols in relation to computer use will apply.
The Commission for Children and Young People Act 2000 (Qld) requires that all students undertaking a Professional Experience as part of this unit will need a valid suitability card or Blue Card which has been registered with QUT before they can commence their placement. Please refer to Blue Card for full details and appropriate forms.
Managing the risk associated with your professional experience is bound in an agreement with the systemic employment bodies and individual sites where necessary. The Workplace Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld) places duties of care on everyone to ensure the health and safety of themselves and others in the workplace.
Students should be aware of and comply with the QUT work integrated learning policy under QUT's Assessment Policy is at MOPPC/4.4