CHCECE013

Application

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to gather information about children through observation and other sources as a basis to inform program planning cycles and to share with children and their families.

This unit applies to educators working in a range of education and care services.

Unit mapping information

This unit supersedes CHCPR303D Develop understanding of children’s interests and developmental needs.

Licensing, legislative, regulatory or certification requirements

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

Foundation skills

The foundation skills described those required skills (language, literacy and numeracy) that are essential to performance.

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

Unit sector or competency field

None specified.

Prerequisite, co-requisite or interdependent assessment of units

None specified.

Assessment conditions

Skills must be demonstrated in a regulated education and care service.

In addition, simulations and scenarios must be used where the full range of contexts and situations cannot be provided in the workplace or may occur only rarely. These are situations relating to emergency or unplanned procedures where assessment in these circumstances would be unsafe or is impractical.

Simulated assessment environments must simulate the real-life working environment where these skills and knowledge would be performed, with all the relevant equipment and resources of that working environment.

Assessment must ensure use of:

• National Quality Framework for Early Childhood Education and Care
• the relevant approved learning framework under the National Quality Framework for Early Childhood Education and Care
• observation-recording tools

Assessors must satisfy the NVR/AQTF mandatory competency requirements for assessors.