Early Years: Teaching and Learning - Top-Up (Graduate Practitioner)

About this course

If you work in Early Years and have a foundation degree in Early Years (or equivalent) which is full and relevant, this flexible course is ideal for developing your career. Your qualification will be recognised as full and relevant by the Early Childhood Studies Degree Network and the Department for Education.

You’ll be able to balance studies with your employment and gain a full BA (Hons) degree as a Graduate Practitioner upon completion of 120 credits and an additional portfolio of evidence.

The course has been designed to enable you to develop key knowledge and skills to enhance your professional role and the quality of your learning in order to make a positive impact in Early Years settings.

By enrolling on the Graduate Practitioner route, you will have ongoing assessment against the criteria in a range of ways as prescribed in the Early Childhood Studies Subject Benchmarks (2022) and Early Childhood Graduate Practitioner Competencies which are captured within the portfolio of evidence and practical engagement in the workplace.

Key aims of this course is to:

• present a cohesive programme which builds upon a sound underpinning through a full and relevant Graduate Practitioner BA Hons Top Up Early Years route • be secure in your working knowledge, skills, values and belief systems for Early Years; • develop your self-awareness and critical reflection of how you interact, relate and respond to others in the environment in which you work; • develop your ability to understand and apply the principles of evidence-based practice • provide the opportunity and a suitable basis for the possible progression to Early Years Teacher Status and/or Qualified Teacher Status, subject to entry requirements of the Department for Education