AED16B Curriculum and assessment in early childhood Hello there. My name is Hanin and I’m the tutor for the course AED16B, otherwise known as Curriculum and Assessment in Early Childhood Education. I’m here to share with you some information about this course. Did you know that early childhood refers to the ages 0-8 years old? This covers both the preschool and lower primary school years. I’d like to invite you to take this course if you are interested in specializing as a lower primary teacher, if you want to learn something that can be useful to you as a parent or auntie or uncle, or if you just happen to love young children. If you’re interested in completing a minor in early childhood, I recommend that you take AED16A Practices and Issues in ECE and AED16D Child Development in ECE before you do the this course. Doing the two courses I mention can help you with the other courses. Having said this, it is not compulsory for you to do AED16A or AED16D in order to do the other 3 courses. Course overview Please press the button to move to the next slide

Course overview for AED16B To enact and advocate for assessment practices that are meaningful to early years children and teachers To support parents to consider learning activities and experiences that are meaningful to early years children Why are we doing this course? To enact and advocate for a curriculum that is meaningful to early years children and teachers AED16B In this course, you’ll have the opportunity to develop some understandings of curriculum development and assessment practices in ECE. You’ll have the opportunity to try out and understand the curriculum development process. You’ll also get some ideas of the kinds of assessment practices that are valued in ECE. I’ve listed three goals for this course and you may notice that there is a theme of advocacy that permeates the course. Firstly, you’ll have the opportunity to enact and advocate for a curriculum that is meaningful to early years children and teachers. Secondly, you’ll have the opportunity to do the same with regards to assessment practices in the early years. And thirdly, you can develop the confidence to support parents to consider learning activities and experience that are meaningful to children from 0-8 years old. What is the course about? Curriculum development Assessment practices early years = 0-8 years old = preschool & lower primary Please press the button to move to the next slide

Another way to look at AED16B Understand principles & concepts in EC curriculum & assessment Quality in ECE Create your understanding of intentional teaching and scaffolded learning Overview of AED16B Explore some EC curriculum models/ approaches Let’s look at this course in a different way, i.e., from the point of view of a learner. As a learner in this course, you’ll have the opportunity to understand some of the principles and concepts in EC curriculum and assessment. And this very much linked with the concept of quality in ECE, something that you will learn in greater depth if you do AED16A practices and issues in ECE. You’ll also have the opportunity to explore some curriculum models or approaches that are found in ECE. By learning about these models and also by having a go at designing learning experiences yourself, you’ll have plenty of opportunity to explore and understand what play-based learning and integrated learning mean. And finally, you’ll have the opportunity to understand what intentional teaching and scaffolded learning mean in ECE. Explore play-based learning and integrated learning Please press the button to move to the next slide

And … another way to look at AED16B Visit to EC centre (TBC) Trying out Sharing Reflecting Course learning experiences Mini-inquiries Participation Course assessment There will be a lot of reflection and sharing in this course, and my goal as your course tutor is to create a safe, supportive, inclusive and stimulating learning environment to enable these to happen. I’ll try to arrange a visit to an EC centre so that you can have a better sense of how the curriculum at that centre is enacted, and make sense of all the explorations that you are doing in this course. Be prepared to draw on your previous learning and teaching experiences (if you have done some teaching before) and engage in mini-inquiries during class. Your experience in these mini-inquiries can support you in your formal group assessment which is a group project to design a learning experience for a large group of children. Your formal individual assessment involves designing one of the following learning experiences: an outdoor learning experience, a learning experience for a small group of children or a routine. You will also be asked to write a reflection of your group project experience. My hope is that all these experiences can help you develop confidence and competence in designing and developing meaningful experiences for young children and for you as the teacher or adult. So if the topics and the learning experiences this course interest you, I’d like to invite you to join us. Group project Individual project Thank you for your interest