EDUC1238 Literacy and Numeracy (Birth-4)

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Overview

This topic enables pre-service teachers to examine the ways that infants and young children contribute to their social worlds as active participants in the interactions, language, ways of thinking, playing, and solving problems that form the basis of early literacy and numeracy competence. Through the inquiry processes used in this topic, pre-service teachers explore the interrelationship between perceptual, sensory and language communicative capabilities of infants, toddlers and young children and examine the changes that occur as infants interact with others and develop complex communication skills. Pre-service teachers study the beginnings of abstract and symbolic thought in young children's play. The topic considers how families and educators and communities can identify and extend children's learning and development of key literacy and numeracy concepts. The topic draws from a multi-disciplinary knowledge base that includes child development, sociology and curriculum theory and research to consider how young children's acquisition of literacy and numeracy skills can be enhanced in early childhood professional practice.

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Aims

The topic aims to:

Provide pre-service teachers with opportunities to broaden and deepen their knowledge and understanding of the ways infants, toddlers and young children engage with their worlds through play, moving and doing
Help pre-service teachers to acquire questions, concepts, perspectives and strategies which will assist them in understanding and enhancing the literacy and numeracy learning of infants, toddlers and young children
Support pre-service teachers to reflect upon contemporary discourse and research in order to consider their particular approach to providing literacy and numeracy learning opportunities in the early years

Learning outcomes

On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:

Demonstrate understanding and application of young children’s early concepts of literacy and numeracy

Understand that Indigenous ways of knowing can be embedded into young children’s knowledge and understanding of literacy and numeracy

Articulate an understanding of the educator's role in observing and planning for young children's literacy and numeracy learning and development

Identify how family members, peers and other significant members in children's lives contribute to young children's awareness and immersion in key literacy and numeracy concepts

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Literacy and Numeracy (Birth-4)

EDUC1238