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EDEC4012: Early Childhood Internship
2025 unit information
This unit is the final professional experience unit students undertake before embarking on their teaching careers. Students apply their knowledge, skills and understandings of early childhood teaching and learning, assuming substantive teaching responsibilities and demonstrating consolidation of outcomes achieved in previous professional experience units. During the extended 30-day placement students will further refine their pedagogical practice through a concurrent practitioner-enquiry research project undertaken in the co-requisite Capstone Unit.
Unit details and rules
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Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Education |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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18 credit points in 4000-level EDEC coded units |
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Corequisites:
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EDEC4010 and (EDUF3050 or EDEC4011) |
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None |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Take increasing leadership responsibility for planning, implementing and assessing quality early childhood curriculum in collaboration with other educators
- LO2. Take increasing leadership responsibility for communicating and collaborating professionally and respectfully with staff, families, children and community
- LO3. Critically reflect on practice and exercise professional judgement, making links between theory, philosophy, child development and practice
- LO4. Clearly articulate a professional identity and philosophy informed by theory and contemporary practice
Unit availability
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Semester 2 2024
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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Semester 2 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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