This course will develop your knowledge of caring for and developing young learners from birth to 35 months of age. A key focus of this course will be on the health, wellbeing and safety of young children. You will explore a developmental and social view of infants and toddlers, including theories of development (brain, psychosocial, physical and cognitive), growth and well-being.

You will extend your skills in designing learning environments that are safe, stimulating, culturally responsive, socially satisfying and that contain opportunities for multiple modes of communicating with babies and toddlers and families. You will develop an understanding of the importance of diversity, individual difference and the range of contexts families live in, as well as the changing social image of infants and toddlers and expectations of young children's competencies.

This course includes a Work Integrated Learning (WIL) professional experience (PX) in which your teaching knowledge and skills will be applied and assessed in a real or simulated workplace context and where feedback from industry and/or community is integral to your experience. This PX is 10 days.