Overview

 Overview

> Nurture children from birth to Year Six

• If your ambition is to work as a teacher in a preschool, early learning centre or primary school, then UC’s Bachelor of Early Childhood and Primary Education will provide you with a broad and innovative education degree which prepares you for a future-focused career.
• During your first year of study, you’ll undertake professional teaching placements in early childhood and preschool settings.
• Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) units across your remaining three years are taught on-site in schools, providing you with ongoing opportunities to engage with children of all ages and embrace your course learnings first-hand. Whether you choose to launch your career in an early childhood or primary school environment, you’ll graduate classroom-ready and keen to inspire the next generation of children aged 0 to 12.
• Study a Bachelor of Early Childhood and Primary Education at UC and you will:
• gain appropriate scientific, literacy and numeracy knowledge
• learn the theories and principles that are the foundation for educational issues and practice in primary and early childhood settings
• demonstrate understanding of student needs and differences, and the relevance of these to learning in inclusive, indigenous, English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EALD) and mainstream settings
• plan and develop appropriate teaching activities for students from a diverse range of backgrounds
• develop and implement effective assessment strategies and carry out evaluation of teaching programs, resources and your own teaching
• apply the required content knowledge for all primary school curriculum areas to teaching, assessment and reporting methods, alternate/enhanced literacy and numeracy strategies, and the effective use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in teaching and learning
• reflect on your practice and experiences and engage in a process of continual improvement.
• Work Integrated Learning (WIL)
• A teaching degree, by its very nature, is the embodiment of Work Integrated Learning (WIL), with its focus on compulsory professional teaching practice.
• During this course, you’ll undertake a minimum of 120 days of practical placement within schools and educational facilities, including at least 40 days in an early childhood environment and 80 days across a range of primary school settings.
• In addition to this, the course content is developed by early childhood and primary education professionals, and kept relevant and up-to-date through consistent monitoring of, and engagement with, the industry.
• You’ll undertake authentic assessment tasks which are highly relevant to the day-to-day practice of teaching, and will take part in regular professional development activities, field trips to educational sites, lectures hosted by guest speakers from a range of education and teaching backgrounds, and more.