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About the Programme
Are you passionate about looking after and teaching children? Get certified for it with our New Zealand Certificate in Early Childhood Education and Care.
This highly accessible, engaging and creative online programme will give you the pre-requisite skills and knowledge to become a competent Early Childhood Kaiako for both work in Child Care Centres or in the community. This will be ideal if you are thinking of entering the ECE industry with no previous experience, are already working in the sector, or you are currently a home-based educator needing to become qualified at Level 4.
Pathways
In the last block of the course, you will be embedded at a licensed Home-Based service or an Early Childhood Centre for up to 64 hours.
Completing this certification can allow you to pursue further studies or start a career as a home-based educator, nanny, playgroup coordinator or a relief teacher for an ECE center under supervision.
Apply now to study this highly flexible online programme.
The aim of this course is to give students knowledge and skills to understand and implement the early childhood curriculum, Te Whariki. An introduction to the Treaty of Waitangi, Tikanga Maori, and Te Reo Maori, underpinning a bicultural curriculum withina multi-ethnic society. Knowledge of how to implement a holistic, inclusive curriculum.
The aim of this course is to develop the student’s knowledge of the regulatory, legislative, theoretical and ethical requirements that impact on an early childhood Kaiako’s practice. This course will equip students to contribute to an ECE environment that provides for the health and holistic wellbeing of infants, toddlers and young children. Students will demonstrate their understanding of strategies for managing their own personal health and wellbeing.
The aim of this course is to develop the student’s knowledge and skills of teaching and learning in an ECE setting. Students will develop an understanding of philosophies, theories and approaches of learning and development in providing a culturally inclusive curriculum. The concepts of whanaungatanga, manaakitanga and Pasifika values will be used as a basis for reflection of own practice. A personal philosophy of practice will be developed.
The aim of this course is to develop a student’s skills to use introductory knowledge of children’s learning and holistic development and the bicultural nature of Te Whariki within their own culturally responsive practice and the value of play and learning plans within an ECE setting. Students will also be required to develop relationships with families, whanau and colleagues exhibiting a range of communication strategies and social competence.