Overview
This topic incorporates both specialist theory and practice in early childhood education by combining university-based study with a 15-day professional experience placement in a birth-2 setting.
This topic examines a complex body of knowledge, including child development, sociology, curriculum theory and research. Specifically, the connection between children’s development of mathematical … For more content click the Read More button below.
Pre-service teachers will develop their ability to provide rich learning experiences that enhance and assess the growth of children’s numeracy and foundational mathematical concepts. The subject will foster positive dispositions towards teaching and applying mathematics and numeracy in diverse settings for children aged birth-2.
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Aims
This topic aims to:
- Provide pre-service teachers with opportunities to demonstrate an advanced and in-depth understanding of the numeracy and literacy learning of infants and toddlers
- Assist pre-service teachers to investigate, analyse and synthesise complex information, problems, concepts and theories relevant to the infant/toddlers' emerging sense of abstract and symbolic thought
- Understand the connection between children’s development of language and the acquisition of early mathematical understanding, and apply this in practice
- Support pre-service teachers to consider how to observe for, shape & implement a high quality literacy and numeracy curriculum for infants and toddlers
- Provide pre-service teachers with opportunities to apply their developing knowledge and understanding of infant/toddler curricula
Learning outcomes
On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:
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demonstrate an advanced and in-depth understanding of the numeracy and literacy learning of infants and toddlers
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Implement an informed and innovative play-based numeracy and literacy program that is developmentally appropriate for infants and toddlers
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Reflectively apply advanced understandings of culture (including Indigenous perspectives), theoretical knowledge, research scholarship and professional observation to practice to children’s knowledge and understanding of literacy and numeracy
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Analyse the connection between children’s development of language and the acquisition of early mathematical understanding
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analyse and synthesise complex information, problems, concepts and theories relevant to the infant/toddlers' emerging sense of abstract and symbolic thought.
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