The Bachelor of Education in Early Childhood Teaching is an innovative course that prepares you to become an early childhood teacher and/or a primary school teacher. This gives you flexible and versatile employment options.

During the course, you explore issues, concepts and practices which are common and specific to both early childhood education (including before school settings) and primary school education.

You'll learn about:

• play and learning sciences
• language and literacy
• preparation for teaching
• health and physical education
• science in education
• technology and design for education
• curriculum and programming
• maths
• leadership and advocacy in early childhood contexts
• humanities, social science and the environment.

This unique teacher education course offers two career options for graduates. It is an initial-teacher education qualification that encompasses working with children from birth to age 12 in both early childhood settings and primary schools.

The course is designed to:

• develop professional knowledge and skills for teaching children from birth to 12 years
• prepare you for new and changing educational roles in early childhood and primary schools
• develop your skills as a reflective teacher
• explore the connection between theory and practice in early childhood and primary school education
• ensure continuing awareness of the environmental and cultural influences on teaching and learning in early childhood and primary schools
• better understand the needs of learners and communities with diverse linguistic and cultural orientations, including Indigenous learners.

Graduating from this course prepares you to teach in a prior to school setting, primary school or work in associated educational areas such as:

• curriculum development
• educational planning
• educational research
• policy development.

Professional recognition

This course has been accredited through the Teacher Registration Board of the Northern Territory consistent with the standards established by the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership for the Accreditation of Initial Teacher Education Programs in Australia.

This program is currently being re-accredited with the Australian Children's Education and Care Quality Authority (ACECQA).

Once approved, graduates of the course will be eligible for registration to teach in schools across all Australian State and Territory jurisdictions (subject to meeting other eligibility criteria, such as National Literacy and Numeracy test for Initial Teacher Education as per Teacher Registration Requirement, English proficiency and suitability to teach). Graduates will be recognised as primary school and also as Early Childhood Teachers under the Australian Children's Education and Care Quality Authority requirements.