Whangarei Girls’ High School
Level 2 Early Childhood Development (THIS COURSE IS NOW FULL FOR 2025, PLEASE CHOOSE ANOTHER COURSE)
2ECD
Course Description
This course focuses on preparing students for a range of workplaces. It equips students with desired employability skills and knowledge of the basic needs, nutrition, health and well-being of young children. This ensures they have skills in basic hygiene practices and understand how to care for children, particularly newborns to school age. As well students develop an understanding of the agencies that support tamariki and their whānau and some of the theories behind child development and their needs.
Learning Opportunities
In this course you will need to:
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- Care Practical Skills - Working with young children- Practical, how to care for young children.
| - Explore the basic needs of children from infant to school age.
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- Workplace Qualities – time management, to use a variety of sources to gain information, to use technology appropriately and problem solving.
| - Demonstrate the Care practice techniques and explain the health and safety considerations required in dealing with young children.
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- Personal Qualities – self-responsibility, self-discipline and a willingness to learn. Professional behaviour and presentation, work ready skills. With the opportunity to demonstrate these within the classroom, on courses and in a placement at an Early Childhood centre.
| - Explore the requirements to keep young children well by examining hygiene practices, health and wellbeing.
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- Interpersonal Skills – collaboration, self-directed learning, effective communication, and how to contribute positively within the classroom setting and in a placement with staff and students in an Early childhood setting.
| - Examine the theories around keeping children safe by looking at attachment theory, the types of early childhood centres found in New Zealand and the agencies that are available to support young children and their whanau.
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- All skills are transferable to a range of work places and settings outside of Early Childhood.
| - Explore the requirements of any workplace with professional behaviour and presentation in theory and a placement in a centre.
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Year Levels/Departments:
Child Development, Seniors
Assessment Information
COURSE STANDARDS: subject to change due to some expiring - unsure until MIT confirms
21 credits forms the Level 2 Certificate in Early Childhood.
29852 Basic Needs
29853 Health Issues
29854 Hygiene and Safety
29855 Attachment and Transitions
29856 Care Practices
29859 Values and Beliefs
29861 Agencies
Students also complete:
Workplace First Aid
6400
6401
6402
And Workplace Health and Safety
30264
30265