Diploma in Early Childhood Education and Care Level 5 Version

Diploma in Early Childhood Education and Care Level 5 Version is a Diploma program taught at Open Polytechnic, New Zealand. The program is offered in campus-based modes with full-time options.

The Open Polytechnic New Zealand Diploma in Early Childhood Education and Care (Level 5) [Version 2] is an online qualification at academic level 5 with 120 credits. It prepares you to apply early childhood education practices in line with Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the place of Māori as tangata whenua. You also learn to use early childhood teaching, learning, and development theories to inform practice, and to implement Te Whāriki to promote children’s learning.

Online study forms the main delivery method. You work through course materials online at a pace that suits you between course start and end dates, with academic support from staff, a Student Mentor, and the Library and Learning Centre teams. You attend regional workshops and tutorials, and practicum during study. The programme can include an in-person component such as noho marae, workshops, and exams. During Professional Practice 1 (EDU508), you complete a five-week practicum at an approved licensed early childhood setting, with 30 hours per week in centre routines.

This qualification supports work as an early childhood educator in a range of early childhood settings, including centre-based, home-based, parent-led, hospital-based (as a play specialist assistant), nanny, and culturally based settings, including Pasifika and Māori contexts. The programme describes a recommendation to have helpful work experience in an early childhood service while studying, but it states you do not need to work in an early childhood service while studying.

Modules

• Professional Practice 1 (EDU508)

The minimum requirements for admission in Diploma in Early Childhood Education and Care Level 5 Version at Open Polytechnic for all applicants (Domestic or International) are:

• program specific academic requirment set by Open Polytechnic.
• English Language OR any other language requirments as set by Open Polytechnic as pre-requiste for admission in Diploma in Early Childhood Education and Care Level 5 Version.

Note: Please check the university website in the link below.

Please check detail of study units at https://www.openpolytechnic.ac.nz/qualifications-and-courses/nz2851-new-zealand-diploma-in-early-childhood-education-and-care-level-5-version-2

• Early childhood educator in centre-based settings
• Early childhood educator in home-based settings
• Early childhood educator in parent-led settings
• Early childhood educator in hospital-based settings (as a play specialist assistant)
• Nanny
• Early childhood educator in culturally based settings, including Pasifika and Māori contexts

14 fully funded scholarships are listed for New Zealand. See New Zealand scholarships.