Pre-requisites

None.

Co-requisites

None.

Competencies covered

Competency: CHCECE035 Support the holistic learning and development of children
Element: 1. Support physical development.	1.1. Identify and use opportunities to support the emerging physical skills of individual children.
	1.2. Use daily routines as opportunities to support children to acquire and practise skills.
	1.3. Select and arrange equipment that will develop fundamental movement skills, fine and gross motor skills.
	1.4. Encourage challenge, choice and spontaneity in physically active play.
	1.5. Support children to take increasing responsibility for their own health and wellbeing through positive communication and information sharing.
Element: 2. Support social development.	2.1. Encourage children to engage in play and social experiences with other children.
	2.2. Provide developmentally appropriate support and information that helps children understand and accept responsibility for their own actions.
	2.3. Provide opportunities for one-to-one and large and small group interactions.
	2.4. Model care, empathy and respect for children, educators and families.
	2.5. Support children when they are having difficulty understanding or communicating with each other.
	2.6. Model language that children can use to express ideas, negotiate roles and collaborate to achieve goals.
	2.7. Use communication and modelling that encourages children to respect and value each other’s individual differences.
Element: 3. Support emotional development.	3.1. Provide children with strategies to make informed choices about their behaviours appropriate to their level of understanding.
	3.2. Assist and encourage children to experience pride and confidence in their achievements.
	3.3. Provide acknowledgement and support if a child experiences frustration and encourage children to see mistakes as an opportunity to learn.
	3.4. Assist children to identify physiological responses to situations and express and regulate feelings appropriately through modelling and guidance.
	3.5. Assist children to develop empathy through identifying and responding to emotions in other people.
	3.6. Support and encourage children to persevere with challenges to assist in building resilience.
	3.7. Share children’s successes with families in informal and formal ways.
Element: 4. Support cognitive development.	4.1. Select materials, resources, technologies and experiences that support exploration and problem-solving.
	4.2. Provide opportunities that encourage exploration of children’s concepts and ideas.
	4.3. Extend children’s thinking by engaging them in sustained shared conversations.
Element: 5. Support communication development.	5.1. Value the child’s linguistic heritage and encourage the use and acquisition of home languages.
	5.2. Select, read and tell developmentally appropriate stories.
	5.3. Use props to stimulate children’s enjoyment of language and literature.
	5.4. Ask and answer questions during the reading and discussion of books or other text.
	5.5. Provide meaningful opportunities for children to develop pre-writing skills.
	5.6. Model and encourage two-way communication through questions and careful listening.
	5.7. Draw children’s attention to symbols and patterns in their environment and talk about patterns and relationships, including the relationship between letters and sounds.
	5.8. Provide opportunities for group discussions and exchange of views between children.
	5.9. Model language and encourage children to express themselves through language in different contexts and for different purposes.
Element: 6. Support holistic learning and development.	6.1. Recognise and promote opportunities for development in multiple areas.
	6.2. Intentionally scaffold children’s learning to foster development.
	6.3. Select and use resources and materials that offer integrated opportunities for challenge, curiosity and discovery.
	6.4. Arrange the environment to encourage interactions between children, as well as accommodating the child’s need for privacy, solitude or quiet.
	6.5. Respond to spontaneous teachable moments as they occur and use them to enhance children’s learning.
	6.6. Support collaboration with colleagues through sharing and seeking of information.

Unit Description

CHCECE035 Support the holistic learning and development of children

Topics

TBC

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Unit offerings

Face to face: (Demand based)

Please note

The Unit Offerings listed above are a guide only and the timetable for any year is the final authority. The College may vary offerings based on demand, regulatory requirements, continual improvement processes or other conditions.

This unit may be available in different modes of delivery i.e. online and face-to-face as listed above. The unit content will not differ between these modes of delivery. There will possibly be a difference in the schedule and/or the prescribed assessment tasks, however both will cover and assess the same content.