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EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

NZ Diploma in Early Childhood Education and Care (Level 5)

Duration

34 weeks with 2 weeks break

Campus

Nationwide

Delivery

Online

Credits

120

Work placement

120 hours

Programme overview

Are you passionate about looking after and teaching children? Light up your life and the lives of others with a New Zealand Diploma in Early Childhood Education and Care (Level 5). Through NZSE’s ECE diploma programme, you’ll further your ECE teaching career by becoming a skilled and sought-after educator. From here, you can choose to work in ECE or progress to a bachelor’s degree to gain ECE teacher registration.

This highly accessible, engaging and creative online programme will give you the required skills and knowledge to become a competent Early Childhood Kaiako who can work within a range of early childhood contexts providing support and education to infants, toddlers and young children and enhance community outcomes. To enrol in this programme, you must have a certificate in Level 3 ECE or equivalent, are already working in the sector as an unqualified reliever at an ECE centre, or you are currently a home-based educator needing to become qualified at Level 5.

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What you study

Develop the skills to work with tamariki and ensure both their wellbeing and development in crucial stages of their upbringing. Our programme covers best practices and theory to apply to your work, including:

You will undertake 120 hours of work placement (spread over the fourth and eighth courses). Work placement can be undertaken in a licensed home-based service, an ECE Centre, a kindergarten, or a language nest.

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