Hoping to get that leadership role? Take your career as an early childhood educator to the next level with the Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care. You’ll learn how to design and implement curriculum as well as maintain compliance in your service’s operations. Upskill with the diploma and you’ll feel confident to take on more responsibility.
Become a confident and qualified early childhood teacher with Federation University.
You may be working in the early childhood field and want to upskill, straight out of school or changing careers. You will discover how young children learn and how you can develop and support their learnings in these critical early years. This is a hands-on course that will get you into the classroom for a minimum of 80 days of supervised teaching placement so you can put into practice what you have learnt. You will develop the skills to teach in a variety of early education settings which may include kindergartens, pre-schools and long day care centres, including those in special needs settings.
A range of scholarships from the Victorian Department of Education and Training are available to help support your dream of a becoming an early childhood teacher, especially if you’re a regional student.
The Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care is a pathway into the Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood Education). You may receive 1 year of credit (120 credit points) through this pathway.
We provide a number of pathways and options to ensure you can follow your dream of becoming a great teacher. Visit our Become a Teacher website and use our interactive study tool to find your path to a rewarding career in education.
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The Bachelor of Secondary Education (Applied Teaching) will prepare you for a career as a teacher in Victorian secondary schools. Many secondary schools are currently struggling to find qualified teachers who are able to teach the new VCE (Vocational Major) and, with many teachers “teaching out of field” because of staff shortages, this is an in-demand qualification.
Your previous occupation, experience and qualifications will be assessed prior to admission into the program. In many circumstances, you will receive recognition for prior learning based on your experience and qualifications, enabling you to become a fully qualified VCE (Vocational Major) teacher in the either 24 or 30 months.
Federation University has a long-standing reputation for producing highly skilled, passionate and resilient health and physical education teachers. With smaller class sizes, our education lecturers get to know our students, providing one-on-one assistance with assignments and course work – that’s why we’re Victoria’s #1 university for student support*.
Our Bachelor of Secondary Education (Health and Physical Education Teaching) prepares you to teach from year 7 through to VCE. You will have the opportunity to make a difference by giving young people the knowledge and tools to lead healthy and active lives.
Areas of study include exercise physiology, biomechanics, motor development, learning fundamentals, foundations of health and physical education, health and human development, nutrition, physical activity, creative movement, applied sports science, contemporary curriculum design, pedagogy and assessment for teaching and learning in health and physical education.
In addition to specialising in health and PE education, you will choose a second teaching method:
• English
• History
• Mathematics
• Psychology
• Science
• Outdoor education
You’ll be ready to teach by undertaking a minimum of 80 days of supervised teaching placement with our partner schools throughout the course.
Teachers are in high demand and you can teach across Australia in remote communities, thriving regional centres or in our capital cities.
The Graduate Certificate in Education (Tertiary Education) (GCETE) is a postgraduate course suited to academic teaching staff, professional staff working directly within a tertiary learning and teaching capacity (for example, librarians, learning designers, learning skills advisers), and those working towards teaching in the higher education sector.