From Semester 2 2025 delivery of this course will move from Casuarina campus to Danala | Education and Community Precinct in Darwin City.
The Bachelor of Education Birth to Five Years is a course that prepares you to become an early childhood teacher.
During the course, you explore issues, concepts and practices which are common and specific to early childhood education.
You will learn about:
- play and learning sciences
- language and literacy
- preparation for teaching
- health and physical education
- science in education
- curriculum and programming
- mathematics
- leadership and advocacy in early childhood contexts
- humanities, social science and the environment.
The course is designed to:
- develop professional knowledge and skills for teaching young children.
- prepare you for new and changing educational roles in early childhood.
- develop your skills as a reflective teacher.
- explore the connection between theory and practice in early childhood education.
- ensure continuing awareness of the environmental and cultural influences on teaching and learning in early childhood.
- better understand the needs of learners and communities with diverse linguistic and cultural orientations, including Indigenous learners.
