Reference no: EM133657193

Curriculum Studies in Early Childhood Education

Learning Outcome 1: describe and justify curriculum in early childhood education and care services.

Learning Outcome 2: understand and demonstrate conceptual knowledge related to key learning areas for children from birth to five years.

Learning Outcome 3: argue, with reference to the literature, how curriculum key learning areas can be applied to support children's learning.

Learning Outcome 4: create and analyse learning environments of curriculum key learning areas for children's development and learning explain the role of the early childhood educator

Task Description

Assessment 1 requires you to demonstrate your understanding of the use of play when implementing the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) (2022) and the National Quality Standard (ACECQA, 2020) and to critically reflect on teacher and children's interactions during an early childhood activity with relevant links to EYLF, NQS Quality Areas and Australian Curriculum key learning areas.

Task Instructions
Write a response to the following three points to demonstrate a good working knowledge and understanding of early childhood education curriculum, frameworks, and concepts.

Case Scenario: You are an Early Childhood Teacher in an Early Childhood Education setting. The Director of the setting has asked you to contribute to the service's newsletter by writing a statement. The statement should address the concept of curriculum within early childhood education. The Director has asked you to justify the statement by incorporating supporting information from the EYLF, AC, and the unit readings. The newsletter will be distributed to families (100 words)

Scenario: You are an Early Childhood Teacher in an Early Childhood Education setting. A parent has emailed you to ask why educators use children's play to implement curriculum in early childhood education settings. Write a response that explains why and how you do this. Justify your response by using theory, NQS, EYLF, and scholarly references. (500 words).

Watch the video provided in the Assessment 1 folder on the unit Blackboard Site. Observe the teacher and children's interactions during the activity then:

Analyse one (1) EYLF Principle and one (1) Practice the educator is embedding in their interactions with the children and outline how they are doing this (150 words)

Examine one NQS Quality Area that the educator is implementing in their interaction with the children and outline how they are doing this (150 words)

Analyse which EYLF Learning Outcomes can be linked to the children's learning and support with examples from the video (300 words)

Propose which three (3) Learning Areas from the Australian Curriculum could be linked to the video and support with one (1) example for each Learning Area (300 words)