Undergraduate - UnitEDF3322 - Inquiry in professional practice: Infants and toddlers

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Education
Monash Passport category	Internship (Act Program)
Offered	Peninsula Second semester 2015 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Hilary Monk

Synopsis

This unit provides students in the Bachelor of Early Childhood Education and Bachelor of Early Childhood Studies with the opportunity to engage with curriculum and pedagogy with children under the age of three years in child care settings. Students are expected to demonstrate professional knowledge and practice drawn from other units in the course and the attitudes and dispositions appropriate to teaching in infant and toddler settings.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit students should be able to:

demonstrate professional judgments about infant and toddler learning and development from a variety of theoretical perspectives
use their professional judgments about infant and toddler learning and development to systematically identify learning goals for children, plan experiences to foster these learning goals and research the effectiveness of these plans
prepare and implement experiences for infants and toddlers to achieve differentiated learning and development goals across diverse learners
create learning environments that foster appropriate learning dispositions and behaviours, including responding confidently and appropriately to instances of children's inappropriate behaviour.

Fieldwork

20 days' placement

Assessment

Satisfactory completion of the fieldwork placement, as per the requirements specified in the Professional Placement manual (2400 words equivalent, 60%)
The addition of a minimum of three items to the professional portfolio (1600 words equivalent, 40%)

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload equals 144 hours per semester comprising:

(a.) Contact hours for on-campus students:

24 contact hours per semester

(b.) Additional requirements

independent study to make up the minimum required hours per week including readings, completion of set tasks and self-directed learning

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Hilary Monk

Prohibitions

EDF3508