Behaviour in Early Childhood (12001.1)

Required texts

Porter, L. (2020) Young Children's Behaviour: Guidance approaches for Early Educators (4th edition) Taylor & Francis. This core text is available through UC Library as an E-book.

All other readings and resources will be available via the reading list on canvas.

Submission of assessment items

Extensions & Late submissions

All assessment items required to be submitted online must be submitted via the appropriate Canvas drop box. It is the student's responsibility to upload the correct and corresponding draft or assessment item to the right submission section.

Assignments must be submitted in a format accessible to the assessor(s), as stated on the relevant canvas site. If the unit convener and/or tutor are unable to access a submission, or if no submission has been made by the due date and time, a standard late penalty of 10% of the total marks possible for the task may be applied per day, for three days, after which the submission will receive a score of ‘0' in keeping with UC's Assessment Policy.

Approval of extenuating circumstances will be dependent upon the production of supporting documentation and at the discretion of the unit convener.

Special assessment requirements

An aggregate mark of 50% is required to pass the unit.

Supplementary assessment

N/A

Provision of valid documentation

Please note that the University takes student conduct very seriously. All documentation provided to University staff must be valid and the provision of fraudulent documentation carries with it potentially serious consequences, including suspension and/or exclusion from the University. Note that all allegations of student misconduct will be referred to the Associate Dean for Education (ADE) as a prescribed authority for investigation.

Students must apply academic integrity in their learning and research activities at UC. This includes submitting authentic and original work for assessments and properly acknowledging any sources used.

Academic integrity involves the ethical, honest and responsible use, creation and sharing of information. It is critical to the quality of higher education. Our academic integrity values are honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility and courage.

UC students have to complete the Academic Integrity Module annually to learn about academic integrity and to understand the consequences of academic integrity breaches (or academic misconduct).

UC uses various strategies and systems, including detection software, to identify potential breaches of academic integrity. Suspected breaches may be investigated, and action can be taken when misconduct is found to have occurred.

Information is provided in the Academic Integrity Policy, Academic Integrity Procedure, and University of Canberra (Student Conduct) Rules 2023. For further advice, visit Study Skills.

Learner engagement

Reading, pretutorial activities
& private study                                        60 hours

Lectures (provided on UCLearn) &
tutorial/self paced equivalent activities   30 hours

Assessment tasks                                   60 hours

Participation requirements

Active engagement in all online modules and activities enhances your learning and is strongly advised. There is no mandatory attendance requirement. However, you may elect to attend timetabled activities, drop in sessions or tutorials, as they allow you to ask 'real time' questions to develop your understanding for the relevant assessment tasks.

As a unit of study offered in self-paced mode, attendance at scheduled sessions is not a mandatory requirement of this unit. Students who enrol in the ‘self-paced study' option (in lieu of tutorials) have no face to face tutorials to attend. There is, however, a strong correlation between participation and success in higher education. With this in mind, we encourage and expect students to actively participate in all module activities to enhance their learning opportunities.

Required IT skills

Basic IT skills are required.

Use of UCLearn

Use of UC Library

Artificial intelligence services must not to be used for assessment or assessment preparation by students unless explicitly allowed in the assessment instructions for an assessment task published with the assessment task and/or in the unit outline. That is, an artificial intelligence services may only be used if:

• its use is authorised by the unit convener as part of a specified assessment task, and
• it is used in the way allowed in the assessment instructions and/or unit outline, and
• its use is appropriately referenced, meaning that students must reference the use of AI in their assessment in the same way as they reference other source material.

In-unit costs

N/A

Work placement, internships or practicums

None

Additional information

This unit involves research-led education. There are active researchers delivering this unit who are able to engage students in deep and active learning and transmit to students their passion for the research they are carrying out.

This unit draws on theories relating to child development, functions of behaviour, behaviour guidance. 

• Semester 2, 2025, Online self-paced, UC - Canberra, Bruce (228802)
• Semester 2, 2025, Online real-time, UC - Sydney Hills Campus, Castle Hill, NSW (230504)
• Semester 2, 2025, On-campus, UC - Sydney Hills Campus, Castle Hill, NSW (225156)
• Semester 2, 2025, On-campus, UC - Canberra, Bruce (225155)
• Semester 2, 2024, On-campus, UC - Canberra, Bruce (221026)