School: Arts and Humanities

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  • Unit Title

    Working with Infants and Toddlers
  • Unit Code

    CHN1103
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Rosa Maria NAPOLITANO-LINCOLN

Description

This unit focuses on working with families and providing high quality environments for children under three years of age. Attention is given to the particular needs of very young children and supporting their relationships with primary caregivers. Students will learn to plan care routines for very young children based upon their individual needs and family preferences develop an understanding of infection control procedures, the identification of children who may be unwell and appropriate responses to emergencies and accidents.

Prerequisite Rule

Must pass 1 unit from CHN1101

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CHN2100, CHN3108, CHN4126

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply knowledge and skills of working with infants and toddlers within a range of settings.
  2. Develop collaborative relationships with childrens families and communities within diverse social and cultural contexts.
  3. Identify the principles of quality education and care for infants and toddlers and apply them to a range of settings.
  4. Plan for childrens health, safety and physical well-being.
  5. Plan physical and social environments that support all areas of young childrens development.
  6. Plan rituals, transitions and care routines that meet the diverse social and cultural needs of individual children.
  7. Respond to infants and toddlers' cues and build positive relationships.

Unit Content

  1. Emergent curriculum and its links to Early Years Learning Framework and National Quality Standard.
  2. Infection control, accident and emergency procedures, supervision, nutrition and child protection.
  3. Meals, toileting, sleep routines and settling techniques within diverse social and cultural contexts.
  4. Physical and social environments for infants and toddlers.
  5. Principles of building collaborative relationships with childrens families and communities within diverse social and cultural contexts.
  6. Principles of positive interactions with infants and toddlers.
  7. Professional placement in an infant and toddler setting.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Workshops, e-learning and simulated workplace learning environments.

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for Undifferentiated Pass/Fail units inc. practical units or work-integrated learning

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
PortfolioPortfolio of professional placement.
ONLINE
TypeDescription
PortfolioPortfolio of professional placement.

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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