Behaviour in Early Childhood (12001.1)

This unit is designed to enable early childhood teachers to build their knowledge and confidence around supporting children's behaviour within the early childhood setting. The unit focuses on research-based strategies for understanding the underlying reasons for behaviours and how to best support children in early childhood education and care settings. The content includes understanding what behaviour is and how it can be presented; learning about the physiology responses when extreme behaviour occurs; and learning how to apply strategies within our teaching approaches and learning environments to support children's behaviours.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Analyse the physiological and emotional responses of a child during complex behaviours;
2. Describe and apply strategies within an inclusive setting for individual children and groups; and
3. Evaluate a range of behaviour supports that can be provided to children to support teachers, families, and children.

Graduate attributes

1. UC graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
1. UC graduates are professional - use creativity, critical thinking, analysis and research skills to solve theoretical and real-world problems
2. UC graduates are global citizens - understand issues in their profession from the perspective of other cultures
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - adapt to complexity, ambiguity and change by being flexible and keen to engage with new ideas
4. UC graduates are able to demonstrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing - apply their knowledge to working with Indigenous Australians in socially just ways

Prerequisites

Students must have passed 24 credit points.

Corequisites

None.

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

None.

Assumed knowledge

None.