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Learning and Development 2

EDU613

  • Level 6
  • 15 Credits
  • 0.125 EFTS
  • Delivery type:
    Online only
  • Course duration: 16 weeks
  • Course cost:
    $760 NZ Domestic
  • Workload - Approximately 10 hours per week
  • Prerequisites
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In this online ECE course, you will explore the theories of learning and development relevant to social and emotional competence and how these inform data gathering/assessment and teaching strategies and approaches.

This exploration includes analysis of the impact of diverse social-cultural influences including differing home situations, socio-economic backgrounds, and linguistic and cultural diversities on infants’, toddlers’, and young children’s social and emotional development. There is a focus on teaching strategies and approaches to guide and support infants’, toddlers’, and young children’s developing social and emotional competence.

Learners who successfully complete this online course will be able to:

  • Explore the diverse socio-cultural factors and theories that inform our understanding of infants’, toddlers’, and young children’s learning and development and be able to relate this to their developing social and emotional competency skills.
  • Examine the use of appropriate data gathering and assessment methods to assess and analyse infants’, toddlers’, and young children’s developing social and emotional competence.
  • Analyse a range of teaching strategies that can be put in place to guide and support infants’, toddlers’, and young children’s social and emotional competence.

Assessment

100% internal assessment 

Textbooks

No textbooks are required for this course

Computer and internet requirements

This course is delivered online, so you will access the course and do your study online, which generally includes reading and doing activities, watching videos, downloading content, and writing and submitting assessments online.

For online learning you need:

  • Access to a laptop or desktop computer
  • Reliable broadband internet and a data plan

Find out more about online learning

If you are unsure if your current computer or internet access will allow you to study online please contact us.

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