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EPE500 - Professional Experience: Pedagogical Leadership

2026

Sector

Higher Education

Discipline

Education

Credit Points

Unit Level

500

Equivalent Units

Prerequisites

Must have passed 1 unit in (ECE500, ECE501) AND Must have passed 1 unit in (ECE503)

Incompatible

Coerequisites

Assumed Knowledge

Unit Description

Preservice teachers will engage in preparatory workshops to consolidate foundational knowledge, skills, and application of advocacy, the application of legislation, ethics and professional practice, the National Quality Framework, the Early Years Learning Frameworks, as well as local policy influences on education and care. During the 30-day professional experience preservice teachers will demonstrate theory into practice and reflexive decision making for child development, care, and quality learning experiences. They will reflect on knowing the learner, positive interactions, supportive contexts for play-based pedagogy, and the planning cycle, including professional documentation that is reflective of social justice, culture, diversity, and inclusive practice. This placement includes: 15 days with children birth to 35 months, 15 days with 3-5-year-old children and incorporating some investigations to develop deeper understandings of contemporary theories in practice in the governance, management, administration and educational leadership with a centre leader. Specific assessable activities are undertaken during this placement. All assessment tasks must be satisfactorily completed to pass this unit.

Important Information

Online enrolment is not available for the Intensive 4 offering. To enrol, complete the Special Enrolment form accessed via the eForms tile through CDU Portal.

Unit Learning Outcomes

1.	Analyse and reflect on early childhood policies, systems and practices supporting quality, ethics and professional practice, advocacy, policy, and legal frameworks to develop their general capabilities.
2.	Critically analyse the early years education contexts to enable child agency, culture, diversity, and inclusion to empower all learners.
3.	Demonstrate critical decision making that influence gathering evidence to enhance teaching methods and strategies by documenting observations, curriculum, planning, programming and evaluation and assessment, and pedagogical reflections including child development areas, care and diversity, difference, and inclusivity.
4.	Demonstrate early childhood contemporary theories and practice, play-based pedagogies, child development and care, guiding and engaging young learners and interactions across ages birth to 35 months and 3-5-year-olds in childcare.
5.	Assess and reflect on the child health, wellbeing, and safety to develop child, family and community partnerships and how this influences quality provision of programs.
6.	Demonstrate a reflective analysis of management, administration, and educational leadership systems, including technologies and effective communication skills and knowledge enabling team leadership, advocacy, sustainability, and professional knowledge.

Assessment Overview

	Assessment Task	Value (of total mark)	Related Learning Outcome/s
1.	Pre-placement quiz (20 questions) (Hurdle)	P/F	4
2.	Project (2,500 words or equivalent) (Hurdle)	P/F	1,2,3,4,5,6
3.	Satisfactory performance on 30 days professional experience (Mentor teacher reports) (Hurdle)	P/F	1,2,3,4,5,6

Unit Availability

Year	Semester	Att Mode	Location	Learning Method	Timetable*
2026	INT-4	Internal	Danala - Education and Community Precinct	ITV,OLR	View
2026	Semester S	External	Danala - Education and Community Precinct	ITV,OLR	View
2026	Semester S	External	External Studies	ITV,OLR	View

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ITV: This unit will be delivered/part-delivered intensively in this teaching period rather than over the full semester.

OLR: Internet access is required for this unit as students are required to access study materials provided on-line through Learnline. Please log into Learnline on the first day of each teaching period. For more information about Learnline, please click here.

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