Bachelor of Early Childhood Education

Develop the knowledge and skills you need to be an effective early childhood teacher and leader with our early childhood education course. In our course, you'll learn how to demonstrate an exemplary standard of teaching, and how to be adaptable and highly proficient in critical and future thinking with a sound grasp of early childhood teaching and pedagogy.

Our early childhood education course is ideal for teachers who aspire to meet the needs of contemporary early childhood services. You’ll study philosophies, principles and practices of early childhood teaching, and how teaching and learning in discipline areas of language and literacy, mathematics, arts, science, and health and well being are integrated across early childhood education play based programs.

Studying our early childhood education course will assist you in further developing your leadership and management skills to lead programs across a range of early childhood service types and allow you to gain an in-depth knowledge of exemplary practice in early childhood service.

International students must have completed an Australian Year 12 ( including Mathematics) or international equivalent with a pass.

All applicants must:

supply evidence of English language proficiency
have successfully attained at least a pass in a final year of secondary school mathematics unit OR successfully complete a tertiary entrance mathematics equivalency course (TEMEC)
successfully complete an individual face-to-face selection interview of approximately 30 minutes duration. The selection interview takes the place of the CASPer test, which is not required for entry into this course. The selection interview will be a verbal assessment of your aptitude for early childhood teaching through a series of questions which includes analysing a given scenario
hold or be able to hold a current National Police Records Check and a Working with Children Check
competent computer skills for accessing subject resources; completing online tutorial tasks; and submitting word processed assignments through StudentWeb

PLEASE NOTE: Box Hill Institute only accept enrolments from international students who are 18 years of age or above at the time of course commencement.

You are required to provide evidence you meet at least one of the following requirements: Academic IELTS Overall 6.5 with no band less than 6.0. Other acceptable and equivalent international English language proficiency scores are recognised; or, Achieved an Australian Senior Secondary Certificate (VCE or equivalent) score of at least 30 in English (EAL) or 25 in one of the other VCE English group of studies at Units 3 and 4; or, Completion of an Australian Advanced Diploma or Diploma in Early Childhood Education and Care in Australia within the last 12 months.