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Childcare and Education
Key Points
- Understand the importance of learning through play
- Learn how to care for children
- Promote a healthy environment for child development
- Complete your course within weeks
- Start a rewarding new career
- Take additional courses to boost your knowledge
About Your Course
Working with children requires not only flexibility, patience, compassion and understanding but a deeper knowledge of their developmental journey.
Children experience considerable change in their young lives transitioning from the home or nursery to school. Then the rapid ramping up of education as they progress through their school years.
As a child carer or educator, it’s important to be able to support children effectively throughout. This online course in childcare and education will provide you with the knowledge and understanding of child development and education to help you meet that goal.
If you are just starting your career in childcare (including early years, special educational needs and child minding), it will prepare you to work unsupervised or in a supervisory capacity with children and their families.
This course will cover how to keep children safe, including safeguarding, noticing signs of abuse, discrimination and health and safety.
You will also study the principles of working with children, the effectiveness of learning through play and how to meet each child’s needs. This includes nutrition, how to care for children who are unwell and promoting a healthy environment.
Getting Started
This course will provide you with an excellent foundation of knowledge to start you on your childcare career. You could continue your training to progress and develop a career in the early years, children and young people’s sector, working directly with people in roles such as a senior care worker, children’s centre worker, outreach worker or social worker.
Stonebridge Associated Colleges is one of the UK’s leading online learning provider. Our courses are designed by subject matter experts to give you the knowledge you need to achieve your goals.
Because all of our courses are online, you can study at a time and place of your choosing. You can login the same day you enrol and all of your course materials will be waiting for you.
You can learn at your own pace so you can complete your course within a matter of weeks!
You will also get the support of a dedicated tutor who can answer any questions you have about the material and will assess your work.
Qualification: Childcare and Education
On successful completion of your course, you will receive a Stonebridge Associated Colleges Certificate of Completion.
Your course certificate will also state the number of CPD points/hours the course is eligible for.
There is no experience or previous qualifications required for enrolment on this course. It is available to all students, of all academic backgrounds.
All course fees, inclusive of all payment plans including our Premium Credit Limited option, must be settled before certification can be ordered.
*You will have access to the course for 24 months.
An introduction to working with children
This unit looks at the range of services for children and their families.
Development from conception to age 16 years
The unit aims to give you an understanding of child development and the theories of development. It will teach you how to observe children and why it is important when planning for children’s learning.
Supporting children
This unit focuses on safeguarding children and supporting them in a range of situations. You will learn how to keep children safe from abuse and discrimination.
Keeping children safe
In this unit we look at keeping children safe and healthy, how to prevent accidents and illness and well as procedures for dealing with these. We also consider the importance of planning the physical environment for children.
The principles underpinning the role of the practitioner working with children
This unit looks at the skills you need to be an effective practitioner, it looks at the importance of building relationships with others.
Promoting a healthy environment for children
This unit looks at the importance of a healthy environment for children and the range of factors that can affect a child’s health.
Play and learning in children's education
This unit looks at the role of play in children’s learning and how you as a practitioner can support children’s play. The unit also considers how play can be used to support the curriculum.
Caring for children
This unit considers the different types of settings that work with children and their families, it looks at how a child’s needs can be met in different ways and how you as the practitioner can work with other professionals to meet these needs.
Care of sick children
This unit covers health promotion and how to care for a sick child. It also looks at the signs used to identify a sick child and the steps taken to support the child.
Nutrition and healthy food for children
This unit considers the importance of a healthy and balanced diet for a child and how you can plan and prepare food for children of different ages.
Working with children with special needs
This unit considers what is meant by “special needs” and “inclusion” as well as the types of legislation that exists to support children.
Developing children’s (3 - 8 years) communication, language and literacy skills
This unit considers developing children’s (3 - 8 years) communication, language and literacy skills and how you can support this.
What's Included
- All study materials
- Study Guide
- Full Tutor and Admin support
- The course fee includes the awarding body registration and certification fee (valued at up to £30.00).
OUR PASS RATE
Teaching and Education
79.3%
(National Average 73.8%)
Childcare and Education
Key Points
- Understand the importance of learning through play
- Learn how to care for children
- Promote a healthy environment for child development
- Complete your course within weeks
- Start a rewarding new career
- Take additional courses to boost your knowledge
About Your Course
Working with children requires not only flexibility, patience, compassion and understanding but a deeper knowledge of their developmental journey.
Children experience considerable change in their young lives transitioning from the home or nursery to school. Then the rapid ramping up of education as they progress through their school years.
As a child carer or educator, it’s important to be able to support children effectively throughout. This online course in childcare and education will provide you with the knowledge and understanding of child development and education to help you meet that goal.
If you are just starting your career in childcare (including early years, special educational needs and child minding), it will prepare you to work unsupervised or in a supervisory capacity with children and their families.
This course will cover how to keep children safe, including safeguarding, noticing signs of abuse, discrimination and health and safety.
You will also study the principles of working with children, the effectiveness of learning through play and how to meet each child’s needs. This includes nutrition, how to care for children who are unwell and promoting a healthy environment.
Getting Started
This course will provide you with an excellent foundation of knowledge to start you on your childcare career. You could continue your training to progress and develop a career in the early years, children and young people’s sector, working directly with people in roles such as a senior care worker, children’s centre worker, outreach worker or social worker.
Stonebridge Associated Colleges is one of the UK’s leading online learning provider. Our courses are designed by subject matter experts to give you the knowledge you need to achieve your goals.
Because all of our courses are online, you can study at a time and place of your choosing. You can login the same day you enrol and all of your course materials will be waiting for you.
You can learn at your own pace so you can complete your course within a matter of weeks!
You will also get the support of a dedicated tutor who can answer any questions you have about the material and will assess your work.
Teaching and Education
OUR PASS RATE
(National Average 73.8%)
79.3%
On completion of your course, you will receive two certificates:
Certificate 1 is issued by Stonebridge Associated Colleges: Childcare and Education Diploma
Childcare and Education Diploma issued by Stonebridge Associated Colleges, to view a sample of the college’s award, please click here.
Certificate 2 is issued by Quality Licence Scheme: Level 3 Childcare and Education Certificate of Achievement
At the end of this course successful learners will be given the option to receive a Certificate of Achievement from the Quality Licence Scheme and a Learner Unit Summary (which lists the components the learner has completed as part of the course).
The course has been endorsed under the Quality Licence Scheme. This means that Stonebridge Associated Colleges has undergone an external quality check to ensure that the organisation and the courses it offers, meet defined quality criteria. The completion of this course alone does not lead to a regulated qualification* but may be used as evidence of knowledge and skills gained. The Learner Unit Summary may be used as evidence towards Recognition of Prior Learning if you wish to progress your studies in this subject. To this end the learning outcomes of the course have been benchmarked at Level 3 against level descriptors published by Ofqual, to indicate the depth of study and level of demand/complexity involved in successful completion by the learner.
The course itself has been designed Stonebridge Associated Colleges to meet specific learners’ and/or employers’ requirements which cannot be satisfied through current regulated qualifications. The Quality Licence Scheme endorsement involves robust and rigorous quality audits by external auditors to ensure quality is continually met. A review of courses is carried out as part of the endorsement process.
The Quality Licence Scheme is part of the Skills and Education Group, a charitable organisation that unites education and skills-orientated organisations that share similar values and objectives. With more than 100 years of collective experience, the Skills and Education Group’s strategic partnerships create opportunities to inform, influence and represent the wider education and skills sector.
The Skills and Education Group also includes two nationally recognised awarding organisations; Skills and Education Group Awards and Skills and Education Group Access. Through our awarding organisations we have developed a reputation for providing high-quality qualifications and assessments for the education and skills sector. We are committed to helping employers, organisations and learners cultivate the relevant skills for learning, skills for employment, and skills for life.
Our knowledge and experience of working within the awarding sector enables us to work with training providers, through the Quality Licence Scheme, to help them develop high-quality courses and/or training programmes for the non-regulated market.
*Regulated qualification refers to those qualifications that are regulated by Ofqual / CCEA / Qualification Wales
To view a sample of the Certificate of Achievement, please click here.
Professional Membership
On completion of this course you will be eligible to join the following Professional Associations(s):
An introduction to working with children
This unit looks at the range of services for children and their families.
Development from conception to age 16 years
The unit aims to give you an understanding of child development and the theories of development. It will teach you how to observe children and why it is important when planning for children’s learning.
Supporting children
This unit focuses on safeguarding children and supporting them in a range of situations. You will learn how to keep children safe from abuse and discrimination.
Keeping children safe
In this unit we look at keeping children safe and healthy, how to prevent accidents and illness and well as procedures for dealing with these. We also consider the importance of planning the physical environment for children.
The principles underpinning the role of the practitioner working with children
This unit looks at the skills you need to be an effective practitioner, it looks at the importance of building relationships with others.
Promoting a healthy environment for children
This unit looks at the importance of a healthy environment for children and the range of factors that can affect a child’s health.
Play and learning in children's education
This unit looks at the role of play in children’s learning and how you as a practitioner can support children’s play. The unit also considers how play can be used to support the curriculum.
Caring for children
This unit considers the different types of settings that work with children and their families, it looks at how a child’s needs can be met in different ways and how you as the practitioner can work with other professionals to meet these needs.
Care of sick children
This unit covers health promotion and how to care for a sick child. It also looks at the signs used to identify a sick child and the steps taken to support the child.
Nutrition and healthy food for children
This unit considers the importance of a healthy and balanced diet for a child and how you can plan and prepare food for children of different ages.
Working with children with special needs
This unit considers what is meant by “special needs” and “inclusion” as well as the types of legislation that exists to support children.
Developing children’s (3 - 8 years) communication, language and literacy skills
This unit considers developing children’s (3 - 8 years) communication, language and literacy skills and how you can support this.
What's Included
- All study materials
- Study Guide
- Full Tutor and Admin support
- The course fee includes the awarding body registration and certification fee (valued at up to £30.00).
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