Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood and Primary)

The Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood and Primary) contains 130 days of professional experience; 70 days in a primary school setting and 60 days in an Early Childhood setting. These placements are embedded in EDEC106, EDIT101, EDEC201, EDEC207, EDLT301, EDEC392, EDSP323, EDEC324, EDEC435, EDEC328 and EDCX302.

Before undertaking the final placement in a school, all Teacher Education Students in this degree must complete and pass both components of the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education Students.

Early Childcare Settings

All professional experience placements in an Early Childhood setting must meet the following requirements to be counted for placement. The Early Childhood setting must:

  • Be a setting approved by ACECQA that caters for children prior to school age;
  • Be using the Early Learning Years Framework.

Primary School Settings

All professional experience placements in a primary school setting must meet the following requirements to be counted for placement. The school must:

  • Assess teacher proficiency against the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers;
  • Use NESA approved syllabuses or equivalent Australian syllabuses;

All placements must be in a mainstream classroom unless otherwise specified.

Please select your unit:

EDEC106 (PrEx 5 days)

General Requirements for this Placement

This is a five day placement in an ACECQA approved early childhood education and care setting with children aged birth to five years.

Specific Requirements

The supervising teacher must be minimum three year trained early childhood teacher.

EDEC106 Specific Requirements

Acceptable Venues for this Placement

  • ACECQA approved early childhood setting that accommodates for children aged birth to five years.

Unacceptable Venues for this Placement

  • Family day care
  • Vacation Care
  • Before school care
  • After school care
  • Babysitting
  • Parental duties
  • Working as an au pair

EDIT101 (PrEx 20 days)

This Placement and Information Technology

This placement is embedded in the unit EDIT101. While the unit content is about learning Information Technology (IT), the placement is not directly related to IT so does not need to be in a computer class. Information Technology is covered in the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers as part of the whole of teaching.

Specific Information

This is a 20 day block placement in a primary school setting where the pre-service teacher will be assessed against the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.

EDIT101 Specific Requirements

Placements that can be accepted

  • Mainstream primary classrooms
  • Release from Face-to-Face (RFF) Placements*
  • Library placements**
  • Distance Education settings
  • Special Education settings***

Pre-service teachers may only complete one placement in an RFF, Distance Education, library or Special Education setting in EDIT101 and EDLT219.

*The RFF teacher must be covering all of the Key Learning Areas (KLAs) as part of their workload.

**The library teacher must be taking RFF as part of their workload and work with other classes must occur while administration for the library teacher is undertaken.

***For special education settings, the curriculum must align with the NSW/Australian Curriculum and the class must be in a primary school.

Placements that cannot be accepted

  • Work in a tutoring agency
  • Work as an au pair
  • Employment as a governess (or equivalent position)
  • Employment as teacher's aide (or equivalent position such as a Learning Support Officer).

EDEC201 (PrEx 10 days)

General Requirements for this Placement

This is a 10 day placement in an ACECQA approved early childhood education and care setting with children from birth to two years (up to 24 months).

Specific Requirements

The supervising teacher must be minimum three year trained early childhood teacher.

EDEC201 Specific Requirements

Acceptable Venues for this Placement

  • ACECQA approved early childhood education and care setting that accommodates for infants and toddlers.

Unacceptable Venues for this Placement

  • Family day care
  • Vacation Care
  • Before school care
  • After school care
  • Babysitting
  • Parental duties
  • Working as an au pair

EDEC207 (PrEx 10 days)

General Requirements for this Placement

This is a 10 day placement in an ACECQA approved early childhood education and care setting with children under the age of three.

Specific Requirements

The supervising teacher must be minimum three year trained early childhood teacher.

EDEC207 Specific Requirements

Acceptable Venues for this Placement

  • ACECQA approved early childhood education and care setting that accommodates for children under the age of three.

Unacceptable Venues for this Placement

  • Family day care
  • Vacation Care
  • Before school care
  • After school care
  • Babysitting
  • Parental duties
  • Working as an au pair

EDLT301(PrEx 15 days)

This Placement and Planning for Effective Learning

This placement is integrated into the unit EDLT301 and may require unit work to be completed while on placement.

Specific Requirements

This is a 15 day block placement in a primary school setting where the teacher education students will be assessed against the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.

EDLT301 Specific Requirements

Placements that can be accepted

  • Mainstream primary classrooms
  • Distance Education settings
  • Special Education settings*

Teacher education students may only complete one placement in distance education, or Special Education setting in EDLT301.

*For Special Education settings, the curriculum must align with the NSW/Australian Curriculum and the class must be in a primary school.

Placements that cannot be accepted

  • Work in a tutoring agency
  • Work as an au pair
  • Employment as a governess (or equivalent position)
  • Employment as teacher's aide (or equivalent position such as a Learning Support Officer or paraprofessional).
  • Release from Face-to-Face (RFF) placements
  • Library placements
EDEC392 (PrEx 15 days)

General Requirements for this Placement

This is a 15 day placement in an ACECQA approved early childhood education and care setting with children aged three to five years.

Specific Requirements

The supervising teacher must be minimum three year trained early childhood teacher.

EDEC392 Specific Requirements

Acceptable Venues for this Placement

  • ACECQA approved early childhood education and care setting that accommodates for children aged birth to five years.

Unacceptable Venues for this Placement

  • Family day care
  • Vacation Care
  • Before school care
  • After school care
  • Babysitting
  • Parental duties
  • Work as an au pair

EDSP323 (PrEx 15 days)

This Placement and Classroom Behaviour Management

This placement is embedded in the unit EDSP323. The placement component does not have to be in a Special Education setting as behaviour and classroom management are part of teaching as a whole as outlined in the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.

Specific Information

This is a 15 day block placement in a primary school setting where the pre-service teacher will be assessed against the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.

EDSP323 Specific Requirements

Placements that can be accepted

  • Mainstream primary classrooms

Placements that cannot be accepted

  • RFF placements
  • Work in a distance education setting
  • Library placement
  • Placement in a special education unit
  • Work in a tutoring agency
  • Working as an au pair
  • Employment as a governess (or equivalent position)
  • Employment as teacher's aide (or equivalent position such as a Learning Support Officer).

Pre-service teachers may only complete one placement in an RFF, Distance Education, library or Special Education setting in EDIT101 or EDLT301.

EDEC324 (PrEx 5 days)

General Requirements for this Placement

This is a five day adult-oriented placement in an ACECQA approved early childhood education and care setting where whole setting early education management and leadership are investigated. If the student is currently employed in an early childhood setting/organisation, this placement must occur outside the student’s own current or previous workplace/s and not in a sister centre.

Specific Requirements

The supervising director must be a minimum four year degree trained early childhood teacher.

EDEC324 Specific Requirements

Acceptable Venues for this Placement

  • An ACECQA approved early childhood education and care setting that is NOT the UNE student's workplace (this could be a child care centre, a family day care co-ordinating scheme, or a preschool if the director has significant non-teaching leadership roles).

Unacceptable Venues for this Placement

  • Any early childhood education and care setting in which the UNE student is working or has worked
  • Family day care educator’s home setting (a Family Day Care Co-ordinating Scheme office setting is acceptable)
  • Vacation Care
  • Before school care
  • In a ‘sister’ service to the centre of one’s current employment in an Early Childhood Centre.
  • After school care
  • Babysitting
  • Parental duties
  • Working as an au pair
EDEC435 (PrEx 10 days)

General Requirements for this Placement

This is a 10 day placement in an ACECQA approved early childhood education and care setting with children aged three to five years.

Specific Requirements

The supervising teacher must be minimum four year trained* early childhood teacher.

EDEC435 Specific Requirements

*If you are unable to meet this requirement due to extenuating circumstances, for example, residing in remote or rural settings, please contact the Office for Professional Learning regarding the possibility of other arrangements.

Acceptable Venues for this Placement

  • An ACECQA approved early childhood education and care setting that accommodates for children aged three to five years

Unacceptable Venues for this Placement

  • Family day care
  • Vacation Care
  • Before school care
  • After school care
  • Babysitting
  • Parental duties
  • Working as an au pair

EDEC328 (PrEx 5 days)

General Requirements for this Placement

This is a five day placement in an ACECQA approved early childhood education and care setting with children aged two to five years. If the currently employed in an early childhood centre, this placement must occur outside the current place of employment and not in any 'sister centres' associated with the place of employment.

Specific Requirements

The supervising teacher must be minimum four year trained* early childhood teacher.

EDEC328 Specific Requirements

*If you are unable to meet this requirement due to extenuating circumstances, for example, residing in remote or rural settings, please contact the Office for Professional Learning regarding the possibility of other arrangements.

Acceptable Venues for this Placement

  • An ACECQA approved early childhood education and care setting that accommodates for children aged two to five years.

Unacceptable Venues for this Placement

  • The UNE student's current workplace
  • Family day care
  • Vacation Care
  • In a ‘sister’ service to the centre of one’s current employment in an Early Childhood Centre.
  • Before school care
  • After school care
  • Babysitting
  • Parental duties
  • Working as an au pair
  • Early intervention centres
EDCX302 (PrEx 20)

This Placement and Aboriginal Education

This placement is embedded in the unit EDCX302. It is not a requirement of the placement to be completed in a setting with a specific ratio of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students. Cultural perspectives and understanding, differentiation of curriculum, disability support strategies and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education strategies are included in the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.

Specific Information

This placement must be completed in a 20 day block in a primary school setting where the pre-service teacher will be assessed against the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.

EDCX302 Specific Requirements

Graduate Level Placements

This is the final placement where the pre-service teacher is assessed against all of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers at the Graduate Level as per the requirements of NESA.

Placements that can be accepted

  • Mainstream primary classrooms

Placements that cannot be accepted

  • Any placement type that varies from a mainstream classroom setting.

Teacher Education Students may only complete one placement in an RFF, Distance Education, library or Special Education setting in EDIT101 or EDLT301.