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Study bachelor degree online with Curtin University through Open Universities Australia. Explore all degrees, subjects and short courses now.

Enter the valued profession of early childhood teaching and child care. Study core subjects, professional studies and electives to be qualified to teach children aged 0-8 years in early learning centres and in junior school settings.

Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood Education)

Child Development for Educators

Supporting Literacy and Numeracy Development for Diverse Learners

The Professional Educator: Developing Teacher Identity

Creative Literacies

Educators Inquiring About the World

Performing Arts for Educators

Project-based iSTEM Education

Creating and Responding to Literature

iSTEM: Social Issues

iSTEM Education through Digital Stories

Gain an overview of human development from conception to early adolescence. Interpret aspects of development related to age—exploring how the interactions between the child, caregivers, home and school impact children's development.

Discover what the teaching profession means to you and reflect on how this might inform your teaching career. Measure your confidence in what you’ll be teaching. Maximise academic integrity, form your teaching identity, and build your portfolio.  

A final subject to demonstrate your attainment of skills, knowledge and attributes as an early childhood or primary professional. Via a 10-week placement, demonstrate you can plan for and teach children with diverse backgrounds, abilities and needs.

Professional Experience 4: The Internship

Understand the value of dance, drama and music in society alongside children’s developmental growth. Inquiry-based and praxis-led learning will encourage your creative thinking, self-expression, meaning-making and ability to convey ideas. 

Lay the foundations for meaningful interpretation and implementation of curriculum in the context of science and humantities. Seek answers to local and global social and environmental issues using various information and communication technologies.

Understand literacy and numeracy as dynamic and evolving concepts. Engage with the underlying need for student comprehension of these two key areas. Learn to support development of literacy and numeracy holistically through your teaching.

Get students thinking about careers in about integrated science, technology, engineering and mathematics (iSTEM). Understand how you can engage pupils through project-based learning. Get set for the classroom as you create and evaluate project plans.

Explore the relationship between home literacy practices and those in early childhood settings. Focus on linguistic and cultural diversity by learning to recognise children’s individual, social, and cultural ways of knowing.

Early Childhood Literacies

Familiarise yourself with the concept of integration as a multi-subject approach to teaching. Then learn strategies to adjust teaching and learning methods to suit individual needs within inquiry-based settings.

Curriculum Integration and Differentiation

Learn how to support young children’s inquiry into natural science by engaging their curiosity and desire to explore science content. Extend your knowledge and application of learning theories, teaching and learning approaches for science.

Engaging Children in Science

Curtin University Bachelor Degree Early childhood education Courses & Degrees | Open Universities Australia

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