Early Childhood
Welcome to the Early Childhood Professional Experience website. The University of Sydney has an international reputation for excellence and its Early Childhood Education programs equip Preservice Teachers with the necessary knowledge, skills and attitudes to become outstanding early childhood teachers, decision makers, ethical leaders and clear and practical thinkers.
The Professional Experience component provides a suite of developmentally sequenced practical studies that are integrated with theoretical, evidence-based knowledge within the core Teaching and Learning and Early Childhood Education units. Professional Experience promotes learning about early childhood professional contexts, about pedagogical settings and practices, and about ways families and communities, teachers and other educators and professionals nurture young children’s growth and development.
Professional Experience enables early childhood teacher education students to develop the knowledge, skills values and attitudes to plan for, facilitate and evaluate learning and care environments for young children. Professional Experience is underpinned by three overarching guiding principles that are evidence-based and practice-centred and aligned with the goals and intent of the Early Years Learning Framework and the Draft Australian Professional Standards for Graduating Teachers. These principles are Professional Knowledge, Professional Practice and Professional Engagement.
Handbook
Forms
Consent Form
Student Evaluation Form
Mentor Feedback Form
Professional Experience Report
Negotiated Make Up Day Form
Need For Additional Support Form
Disclosure Form