Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care

Work legally and ethically

• Identify and respond to legal requirements
• Identify and meet ethical responsibilities
• Contribute to workplace improvements

Use an approved learning framework to guide practice

• Identify learning frameworks
• Apply the learning framework

Develop cultural competence

• Reflect on own cultural identity and biases
• Identify and develop cultural competency
• Research Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander communities
• Support individual cultural identities
• Create environments to support children’s cross-cultural understanding and relationships
• Support the implementation of inclusive learning experiences
• Support children in developing confidence and strength in personal and cultural identity

Promote Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander cultural safety

• Identify cultural safety issues in the workplace
• Model cultural safety in own work
• Develop strategies for improved cultural safety
• Evaluate cultural safety strategies

Identify and respond to children and young people at risk

• Implement work practices which support the protection of children and young people
• Report indications of possible risk of harm
• Apply ethical and nurturing practices in work with children and young people

Ensure the health and safety of children

• Support each child’s health needs
• Provide opportunities to meet each child’s need for sleep, rest and relaxation
• Implement effective hygiene and health practices
• Supervise children to ensure safety
• Minimise risks
• Contribute to the ongoing management of allergies
• Contribute to the ongoing management of asthma

Provide care for babies and toddlers

• Promote safe sleep
• Provide positive nappy-changing and toileting experiences
• Promote quality mealtime environments
• Create a healthy and safe supporting environment
• Develop relationships with babies and toddlers
• Develop relationships with families

Provide care for children

• Provide physical care
• Promote physical activity
• Adapt facilities to ensure access and participation
• Help children with change
• Settle new arrivals

Develop positive and respectful relationships with children

• Communicate positively with children
• Interact positively with children
• Support and respect children
• Maintain the dignity and rights of children

Promote and provide healthy food and drinks

• Promote healthy eating
• Plan food and drinks that are nutritious and appropriate for each child
• Maintain food safety while carrying out food-handling activities

Analyse information to inform learning

• Gather and document information about children
• Monitor children’s learning and development
• Use evidence to inform practice
• Share information appropriatel

Foster the holistic development and wellbeing of the child in early childhood

• Foster physical development
• Foster social development
• Foster emotional development
• Foster cognitive development
• Foster communication development
• Foster an environment for holistic learning and development

Nurture creativity in children

• Foster creativity through the physical environment
• Foster creativity through the human environment
• Foster creativity through a learning framework
• Provide experiences
• Evaluate experiences

Establish and implement plans for developing cooperative behaviour

• Establish and apply limits and guidelines for behaviour
• Identify and review behaviour as required
• Develop a plan to guide a particular child’s behaviour where required
• Implement and monitor behaviour plan

Implement strategies for the inclusion of all children

• Promote inclusion
• Respect diversity
• Identify children with barriers to learning
• Develop a plan for support and inclusion
• Implement strategies to meet the child’s additional needs
• Monitor and review strategies

Design and implement the curriculum to foster children's learning and development

• Develop appropriate settings and environments
• Design and implement curriculum in consultation with others
• Design learning experiences to foster children’s learning and development
• Implement learning experiences to foster children’s learning and development
• Assess and evaluate planned and unplanned teaching and learning

Work in partnership with families to provide appropriate education and care for children

• Provide families with opportunities to be involved in the service
• Provide information to families about their child
• Provide information to families about the service
• Provide information about community services and resources

Promote children's agency

• Establish a learning environment that reflects children’s interests
• Provide opportunities that stimulate learning and development
• Design, implement and evaluate learning experiences for children
• Support children to participate

Maintain work health and safety

• Contribute to workplace procedures for identifying hazards and controlling risks
• Implement policies and procedures into work team processes
• Support consultation, cooperation and communication

Embed sustainable practices in service operations

• Develop a sustainability management plan
• Support children to develop an understanding and respect for the natural environment
• Support others in implementing sustainable practice
• Embed sustainability into service policies and procedures

Establish and maintain a safe and healthy environment for children

• Support each child’s health needs
• Provide for each child’s comfort
• Promote and implement effective hygiene practices
• Take steps to control the spread of infectious diseases
• Ensure adequate supervision of children
• Take precaution to protect children from harm
• Develop plans to effectively manage incidents and emergencies

Facilitate compliance in an education and care service

• Interpret the National Quality Framework
• Facilitate an organisation self- assessment
• Facilitate the development of a quality improvement plan
• Coordinate the service for a site visit

Lead the work team

• Contribute to and promote effective work practices
• Develop and implement staffing processes
• Maintain professional approach to leading work team
• Promote effective workplace relations
• Evaluate plans
• Review individual performance

Develop and implement policy

• Research new policy initiatives
• Draft policies
• Test draft policies
• Develop policy proposals
• Implement and review policies

Provide an emergency first aid response in an education and care setting

• LTAID004 Provide an emergency first aid response in an education and care setting**
• **Open Colleges does not provide this unit. You will need to provide a current Education and Care First Aid Certificate to satisfy competency for this unit.

Develop workplace policy and procedures for sustainability

• Develop workplace sustainability policy
• Communicate workplace sustainability policy
• Implement workplace sustainability policy
• Review workplace sustainability policy implementation

Comply with family day care administration requirements

• Perform administration activities in line with legislative and organisational requirements
• Record required information using appropriate forms
• Follow organisational requirements for taxation and insurance

tend to daily functions in home based child care

• Clarify and plan for daily functions related to the provision of care
• Attend to agreed daily functions of home-based care
• Respond to unexpected changes in home-based care
• Review daily care functions