EUB345 Continuity of Learning: Effective Transitions in Early Childhood

Unit Outline: Semester 2 - 6 Week C 2025, Online

Overview

This unit will cover transitions and the research, practices and processes underpinning effective transitions across the early years and as fundamental for successful lifelong outcomes. The learning in this unit will focus on the importance of knowing and building on children's funds of knowledge, working collaboratively with families and other professionals, and supporting successful transitions at various stages across a child’s early childhood education and care experiences.  You will build your knowledge and practical strategies to support children's sense of belonging and their skills and confidence to navigate change. The unit addresses the importance of continuity for children’s learning journeys and effective communication with all stakeholders as key to smooth and successful transitions.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:

1. Justify transition plans for children drawing on recent literature, theory, policy and evidence-based research on transitions and continuity of learning for children birth to five years.
2. Create transition plans for children in early childhood settings.
3. Collaborate with parents/carers applying a culturally safe and strengths-based perspective to plan transitions.

Content

Learning Approaches

In this unit, you will learn by engaging in active and reflective learning. Learning activities are designed to draw upon your professional experience and prior learning.

A range of teaching and learning experiences will be used including:

• professional readings
• video and/or audio recordings
• online interactives and activities. 

Feedback on Learning and Assessment

Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:

• feedback from peers in group discussions
• unit coordinator and tutor comments to the cohort
• formative assessment tasks, and
• summative assessment tasks.

Assessment

Overview

There is one assessment task in this unit:

1. Transition plan - this task connects your learning about transitions and continuity of learning to planning with a parent/carer for the transition to take place.

Unit Grading Scheme

7- point scale

Assessment Tasks

Assessment: Transition plan

You will role play yourself collaborating with a parent/carer to create a transition plan for a child to move from one context to another. Apply an inclusive and culturally safe approach to guide the transition process. Utilise your knowledge from scholarly sources on what makes a successful transition and consider the individual child’s context to articulate what provisions will be made to meet the needs of the child, family and setting. Your resulting transition plan will be presented in written form with an accompanying justification.

This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.

Academic Integrity

Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.

The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.

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.

Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.

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.

Course Learning Outcomes

ED34 Bachelor of Early Childhood Education (Birth to Five)

1. Knowledgeable: Integrate theory, curriculum and context to plan, implement and evaluate learning and teaching.
   Relates to: ULO2, Transition plan
2. Scholarly: Analyse and interpret scholarly and professional literature to inform decision-making in early childhood education and care.
   Relates to: ULO1, Transition plan
3. Collaborative: Collaborate with children, families, colleagues, wider communities and other professionals to promote child learning development and wellbeing outcomes
   Relates to: ULO3, Transition plan