CHCECE035

Application

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge to recognise and support the interrelationship between the physical, social, emotional, cognitive and communication development of children.

This unit applies to educators who support children’s learning and development according to established curriculum under the guidance of others in regulated children’s education and care services in Australia.

Unit mapping information

Supersedes and is equivalent to CHCECE010 Support the holistic development of children in early childhood and is not equivalent to CHCECE022 Promote children’s agency.

Licensing, legislative, regulatory or certification requirements

The skills in this unit must be applied in accordance with Commonwealth and State/Territory legislation, Australian standards and industry codes of practice.

No occupational licensing, certification or specific legislative requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

Foundation skills

Foundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit of competency.

Unit sector or competency field

Children’s Education and Care–Early Childhood Education and Care

Prerequisite, co-requisite or interdependent assessment of units

Nil

Assessment conditions

Skills must be demonstrated in a regulated children’s education and care service in Australia:

• interactions with children must be supervised by an approved early childhood educator

Assessment must ensure access to:

• curriculum documentation
• resources that support the specific play and learning experiences covering all developmental domains
• National Quality Framework:
  • National Quality Standard
  • the relevant approved learning framework
• service standards, policies and procedures for:
  • children’s health and safety
  • educational program and practice
  • physical environment
  • relationships with children
• educators for guidance and collaboration
• children in a regulated education and care service in Australia

Assessors must satisfy the Standards for Registered Training Organisations’ requirements for assessors.