Unit Catalogue

Health and wellbeing are multifaceted and are intimately connected to the physical, social, economic and political environments in which children and families live and interact. This unit examines the evidence-base for the ways in which happy, healthy and thriving children are shaped by environmental characteristics and how interacting with these environments promote health and wellbeing in young children. This unit provides preservice teachers with foundational concepts and interdisciplinary understandings about the importance of providing safe, secure and inclusive learning environments for all young children's health and wellbeing. Diverse learning needs will also be a focus of this unit. Preservice teachers will analyse policy documents and explore how these are differentiated to meet the needs of children and families in a range of social and economic contexts to achieve children's sense of belonging and being. Preservice teachers will engage with practice-based scenarios and apply a multi-tiered system of support framework to reflect, discuss and design environments for embedding inclusion, diversity and equity when using the Early Years Learning Framework and Australian Curriculum. Evidence-based practices around working with families to support student wellbeing will be explored.