- Lectures: 75
- Quizzes: 11
- Students: 148
- Duration: 12 weeks
Categories: Early years education
Course Overview
The Level 3 Diploma in Early Years Education and Care (Early Years Educator) aims to enable learners to work with children from birth to 5 years and gain knowledge of children aged 5 to 7 years.
We hope that centres and learners will take the opportunity to learn a great deal from this programme that will provide relevant new skills and qualities. It is envisaged that this programme will encourage both academic and professional development so that learners move forward to realise not just their own potential, but also that of organisations in the early years’ sectors.
Units
- Supporting healthy lifestyles for children through food, nutrition and exercise
- Supporting physical care routines for children and for unwell children
- Promoting children’s emotional well-being, social and emotional development
- Understanding the needs of the mother and baby pre-conception, during pregnancy and the first year of life
- The role of the Early Years practitioner
- Legislation relating to Early Years practice
- Working in partnership
- Supporting children through play in Early Years
- Developing the literacy, mathematical and communication skills of children
- Understand the needs of the child in preparing for school
- Understanding children’s cognitive development
- Promoting the physical development of children
- Supporting children with additional needs
- Using studies and tools to promote the development of children
- Professional development for Early Years Educators
Entry Requirements
The qualification has been designed to be accessible without artificial barriers that restrict access and progression. Entry to the qualification will be through centre interview and applicants will be expected to be aged 16 or over and hold a Level 2 qualification.
In certain circumstances, managers with considerable experience but no formal qualifications may be considered subject to interview and being able to demonstrate their ability to cope with the demands of the programme.
Progression routes:
Level 4 qualifications, or directly into employment in an associated profession such as teaching early year education setting.
Curriculum
- 15 Sections
- 75 Lessons
- 12 Weeks
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- Supporting healthy lifestyles for children through food, nutrition and exerciseLearningout come7
- 1.1Learning material for the unit 1: Supporting healthy lifestyles for children through food, nutrition and exercise
- 1.2Understand the impact of food and nutrition on children’s health and development.5 Hours
- 1.3Understand individuals’ dietary requirements and preferences
- 1.4Be able to support children’s healthy eating
- 1.5Understand children’s need for exercise
- 1.6Be able to support children’s exercise in an outdoor space
- 1.7Assignment brief Unit EYE1: Supporting healthy lifestyles for children through food, nutrition and exercise3 Days0 Questions
- Supporting physical care routines for children and for unwell children7
- 2.1Learning material unit 2: Supporting physical care routines for children and for unwell children
- 2.2LO 1.Be able to support the physical care needs of children.
- 2.3LO2.Understand hygienic practice in providing physical care to children
- 2.4lO3. Understand childhood immunisation
- 2.5LO4Understand common childhood illnesses
- 2.6Lo4 Understand support for ill children
- 2.7EYE2: Assignmen brief :Supporting Physical Care Routines for Children and for Unwell Children0 Questions
- Promoting children's emotional well-being, social and emotional development5
- 3.1learning material Unit 3: Promoting children’s emotional well-being, social and emotional development
- 3.2Understand children’s emotional well-being needs, personal, social and
- 3.3Understand the needs of children during transitions and significant
- 3.4Be able to promote the emotional well-being, personal, social and emotional development of children
- 3.5Assignment brief unit 3: Promoting children’s emotional well-being, social and emotional development0 Questions
- Understanding the needs of the mother and baby pre-conception, during pregnancy and the first year of life5
- 4.1Learning material uni 4 : LO 1 Life stage pre -conception and pregnancy
- 4.2LO1 Understand a baby’s development from conception to end of gestation.
- 4.3Learning Material unit 4:LO 2 Post nantal chapter
- 4.4LO2 Understand post-natal care.
- 4.5Assignment brief Understanding the needs of the mother and baby pre-conception, during pregnancy0 Questions
- The role of the Early Years practitioner7
- 5.1Learning material unit 5: The role of the Early Years practitioner
- 5.2Learning material The Role of the Early Years Practitioner
- 5.3Learning material Unit 5 : Role of early year practitioner
- 5.4LO1 Understand the role of the Early Years practitioner.
- 5.5LO2 Be able to communicate to meet individuals’ needs and preferences.
- 5.6LO3 Understand working relationships in Early Years.
- 5.7Assignment brief The Role of the Early Years Practitioner0 Questions
- Legislation relating to Early Years practice11
- 6.1Understand legislation and guidelines for the safeguarding, protection, and welfare of children
- 6.2Understand how to respond to evidence or concerns that a child has been abused or harmed
- 6.3Understand legislation and guidelines, policies and procedures for health and safety
- 6.4Understand how to plan environments that support children’s health and safety.
- 6.5Be able to manage risk within an environment which provides challenge for children
- 6.6Understand how to record and report accidents, incidents and emergencies.
- 6.7Understand the way in which
- 6.8legislation and codes of practice inform equality, diversity and inclusive practice
- 6.9Be able to work in ways which support equality, diversity and inclusive practice
- 6.10Assignment brief Legislation Relating to Early Years Practice0 Questions
- 6.11Legislation Relating to Early Years Practice
- Working in partnership5
- 7.1Understand the principles of partnership working when working with children
- 7.2Understand how to work in partnership when working with children
- 7.3Understand recording, storing and sharing information in relation to partnership working
- 7.4Working in Partnership
- 7.5Assignment brief Working in Partnership0 Questions
- Supporting children through play in Early Years9
- 8.1Understand the role of play at different stages of children’s development
- 8.2Understand different types of play for all children.
- 8.3Be able to plan play opportunities
- 8.4Be able to lead and support play opportunities.
- 8.5Be able to review the effectiveness of play opportunities
- 8.6Understand the way in which the Early Years practitioner supports children’s behaviour and socialisation within play environments
- 8.7Be able to support children’s behaviour and socialisation within play environments
- 8.8Assignment brief Supporting children through play in Early Years0 Questions
- 8.9Learning through play
- Developing the literacy, mathematical and communication skills of children7
- 9.1Understand the language and communication needs of children.
- 9.2Be able to support children’s literacy, language and communication needs
- 9.3Understand how to create an environment which supports children’s mathematical development
- 9.4Be able to plan and implement opportunities that support children’s mathematical development
- 9.5Understand the way in which the Early Years practitioner supports the development of speech, language and communication of children
- 9.6Assignment Brief for Developing the literacy, mathematical and communication skills of children0 Questions
- 9.7Developing the literacy, mathematical and communication skills of children
- Understand the needs of the child in preparing for school4
- 10.1Understand the meaning of ‘school readiness’ in relation to the role of the Early Years practitioner
- 10.2Understand the way in which working in partnership with others. contributes to children’s school readiness..
- 10.3Assignment Brief to Understand the needs of the child in preparing for school0 Questions
- 10.4Understand the needs of the child in preparing for school
- Understanding children’s cognitive development6
- 11.1Understand the cognitive development of children
- 11.2Understand approaches to planning when working with children from birth to 7 years.
- 11.3Understand how to plan to meet the needs of children.
- 11.4Be able to implement a learning experience which supports the development of sustained shared thinking in children
- 11.5Assignment Brief to Understanding children’s cognitive development0 Questions
- 11.6Understanding children’s cognitive development
- Promoting the physical development of children3
- Supporting children with additional needs3
- Using studies and tools to promote the development of children5
- 14.1Understand the uses and methods of observation
- 14.2Understand professional practice in relation to the observation of children
- 14.3Be able to carry out observations in line with current frameworks.
- 14.4Understand the purpose of longitudinal studies.
- 14.5Be able to use observations to assess and plan for the developmental needs of children in line with current frameworks
- Professional development for Early Years Educators2
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