Infant and Toddler Learning and Care (11995)

Available teaching periods	Delivery mode	Location
View teaching periods	On-campus Placement	Bruce, Canberra 含羞草视频 Sydney Hills, Castle Hill, NSW
0.125	3	Faculty Of Education
Academic Program Area - Education	Level 1 - Undergraduate Introductory Unit	Band 1 2021 (Commenced After 1 Jan 2021) Band 1 2021 (Commenced Before 1 Jan 2021)

Introduction

This unit complements the Child Development unit and explores in detail development and learning in the first three years of children's lives. Students will explore contemporary research and approaches to infant and toddler learning and caregiving. Infants and toddlers are positioned as competent and capable learners from birth. This unit includes a 5-day professional experience placement with children aged between 6 weeks and two years in an early learning centre approved by the local regulatory authority. Successful completion of the professional experience placement is required to pass this unit.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Discuss a range of theories that inform infant and toddler learning and care;
2. Articulate an in-depth understanding of theoretical and pedagogical ideas relating to the effective learning and teaching of infants and toddlers in early childhood settings;
3. Create inclusive and engaging learning environments for infants and toddlers; and
4. Create inclusive programs of play and learning that support the holistic development of infants and toddlers.

Graduate attributes

1. 含羞草视频 graduates are professional - communicate effectively
1. 含羞草视频 graduates are professional - work collaboratively as part of a team, negotiate, and resolve conflict
2. 含羞草视频 graduates are global citizens - make creative use of technology in their learning and professional lives
2. 含羞草视频 graduates are global citizens - understand issues in their profession from the perspective of other cultures
3. 含羞草视频 graduates are lifelong learners - be self-aware
3. 含羞草视频 graduates are lifelong learners - reflect on their own practice, updating and adapting their knowledge and skills for continual professional and academic development
4. 含羞草视频 graduates are able to demonstrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing - use Indigenous histories and traditional ecological knowledge to develop and augment understanding of their discipline
1. 含羞草视频 graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
2. 含羞草视频 graduates are global citizens - adopt an informed and balanced approach across professional and international boundaries

Skills development

While this unit has a professional experience component, it provides opportunities for students to enact the Graduate Attributes associated with their professional practice from Week 1 through to completion of their placment.

Prerequisites

Must be enrolled in EDB001 Bachelor of Early Childhood Education (Birth to Five) OR 326JA Bachelor of Early Childhood and Primary Education.

Corequisites

None.

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

10169 Infant and Toddler Education

Assumed knowledge

None.

Availability

Availability for enrolment in 2025 is subject to change and may not be confirmed until closer to the teaching start date.

Year	Location	Teaching period	Teaching start date	Delivery mode	Unit convener
2024	Bruce, Canberra	Semester 2	29 July 2024	On-campus	Dr Andi Salamon
2024	含羞草视频 Sydney Hills, Castle Hill, NSW	Semester 2	29 July 2024	On-campus	Dr Andi Salamon
2025	含羞草视频 Sydney Hills, Castle Hill, NSW	Semester 2	28 July 2025	Placement	Dr Andi Salamon
2025	Bruce, Canberra	Semester 2	28 July 2025	Placement	Dr Andi Salamon

Timetable

The information provided should be used as a guide only. Timetables may not be finalised until week 2 of the teaching period and are subject to change. Search for the unit timetable.

Resources

Required texts

Required and recommended texts for the unit can be accessed via the 含羞草视频Learn teaching site.

Assessment requirements

Submission of assessment items

Extensions & Late submissions

All assessment items required to be submitted online must be submitted via the appropriate Canvas drop box. It is the student's responsibility to upload the correct and corresponding draft or assessment item to the right submission section. Assignments must be submitted in a format accessible to the assessor(s), as stated on the relevant canvas site. If the unit convener and/or tutor are unable to access a submission, or if no submission has been made by the due date and time, a standard late penalty of 10% of the total marks possible for the task may be applied per day, for three days, after which the submission will receive a score of 鈥�0' in keeping with 含羞草视频's Assessment Policy.

Special assessment requirements

Normally an aggregate mark of 50% is required to pass the unit, as is successful completion of the professional experience component of the subject.

Provision of valid documentation

Please note that the University takes student conduct very seriously. All documentation provided to University staff must be valid and the provision of fraudulent documentation carries with it potentially serious consequences, including suspension and/or exclusion from the University. Note that all allegations of student misconduct will be referred to the Associate Dean for Education (ADE) as a prescribed authority for investigation.

Academic integrity

Students must apply academic integrity in their learning and research activities at 含羞草视频. This includes submitting authentic and original work for assessments and properly acknowledging any sources used.

Academic integrity involves the ethical, honest and responsible use, creation and sharing of information. It is critical to the quality of higher education. Our academic integrity values are honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility and courage.

含羞草视频 students have to complete the annually to learn about academic integrity and to understand the consequences of academic integrity breaches (or academic misconduct).

含羞草视频 uses various strategies and systems, including detection software, to identify potential breaches of academic integrity. Suspected breaches may be investigated, and action can be taken when misconduct is found to have occurred.

Information is provided in the Academic Integrity Policy, Academic Integrity Procedure, and 含羞草视频 (Student Conduct) Rules 2023. For further advice, visit Study Skills.

Student responsibility

Learner engagement

Reading and private study: 50 hours

Workshop and online participation: 50 hours

Assessment tasks: 50 hours

Participation requirements

Professional experience expectaions will be provided. Students must familiarise themselves with the expectations prior to beginning placement. The expectations should be used to contribute to successful completion of the professional experience placement. A professional experience report is also completed on completion of placement. Directions for completing the professional experience report should be followed.

Successful completion of the professional experience component is critical to success in the whole unit. Refer to assessment (5d) on the Canvas site for further details. Students must make themselves familiar with the processes and policies of professional experience

Required IT skills

Artificial intelligence services must not to be used for assessment or assessment preparation by students unless explicitly allowed in the assessment instructions for an assessment task published with the assessment task and/or in the unit outline. That is, an artificial intelligence services may only be used if:

its use is authorised by the unit convener as part of a specified assessment task, and
it is used in the way allowed in the assessment instructions and/or unit outline, and
its use is appropriately referenced, meaning that students must reference the use of AI in their assessment in the same way as they

reference other source material.

Work placement, internships or practicums

This unit involves work integrated learning: Placement . Students must adhere to University policy during WIL activities, including the Student Conduct Rules 2018, the WIL Policy and WIL Procedure, and the Assessment Policy and Assessment Procedure. For teaching degrees, students need to ensure they have their WWVP or for NSW, their Working with Children, COVID vaccination status and evidence of PSTR uploaded to InPlace.

This unit involves professional practicum, and therefore, additional student responsibilities are required in addition to those described in section 6. Workplace learning requires strict adherence to professional practice principles and ethics. School student and staff confidentiality must always be maintained (refer policies on ATES - Professional Experience Handbook, ACT ED Teachers' Code of Professional Practice (or equivalent) and Student Conduct Rules), including for assessment items such as reports or essays. This applies to staff and patrons of any outside agency where an internship or other WIL activity is taking place. The professional nature of this unit also requires 100% participation at all learning activities (lectures, workshops, tutorial, practicals etc. as scheduled 鈥� see section 3) for the successful completion of this unit (also see section 6c). If attendance requirements cannot be satisfied (e.g., timetable clash), it is recommended that you contact the Academic Programs Team to discuss re-scheduling this unit.

Additional information

Provision of information to the group

Notifications through the Canvas Announcements Forum or the Canvas Discussion Forums are deemed to be made to the whole class. It is the responsibility of the student to ensure that they check for announcements on the Unit's Canvas website (forum messages are also emailed to student email addresses only). Students should ensure they check their student email regularly. The Canvas discussion forums will be checked by staff regularly.

Use of student email account

The University Email policy states that "students wishing to contact the University via email regarding administrative or academic matters need to send the email from the University account for identity verification purposes". Therefore all unit enquiries should be emailed using a student university email account. Important information regarding unit delivery and professional experience will be sent to students' University accounts. Students must check their University email accounts regularly. Students should contact servicedesk@canberra.edu.au if they have any issues accessing their university email account.

Theoretical foundations: This unit draws on contemporary theoretical perspectives about infant-toddler pedagogy and practice. It uses the theoretical foundations of Australian early childhood education (ECE) practice literature i.e. ethical, curriculum, and regulatory frameworks, to view infants and toddlers as equal citizens with rights. The unit follows the Early Years Learning Framework and sees the purpose of ECE with infants and toddlers as focused on their learning, development, and wellbeing (AGDE, 2022). Students will be invited to think critically about classic theory, the place of care in infant-toddler pedagogy, and their own cultural understandings about infant and toddler learning.

Research Led Education: This unit involves research-led education and professional experience. Active researchers and experienced infant-toddler practitioners are delivering and/or assessing student progress in this unit. They will be able to engage students in deep and active learning and aim to transmit to students their passion for the research, deep experience and knowledge, and its implications in practice infant and toddler learning.

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