If you want to work in a childcare room, this is it. You learn play, safety, babies, frameworks and child protection. Placement hours are arranged for you, close to home.
CHC30121 is the entry point services ask for.
A partner service is found near where you live.
Nurturing babies and toddlers is taught on its own.
Early childhood work sits in long day care, kindergartens and family homes. A day is arrivals, play, meals, rest and handover.
Run a room and plan the learning in it.
Care for a small group from a home setting.
Support a kinder teacher through the session. Some kindergartens prefer a Diploma.
Roles where this qualification is useful, not promised outcomes. Services set their own hiring rules. Some roles ask for a Diploma.
Rules and safety first, then play, then the youngest children.
Three things that matter before you enrol.
CHC30121 Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care.
Part time or in a block, whichever the service allows.
Debra Hine and Mindy Gore teach from the floor up.
The sector entry qualification
Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care.
Two hundred hours logged in a working service.
The Diploma builds straight on top of it.
The unit list and placement detail, in writing.
Where you live decides where you are placed.
Faster or slower, the units are the same.
Start any day. There are no intakes to wait for.
Yes. CHC30121 Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care.
Yes, a minimum of two hundred hours in a service.
The college does, through SkilTrak, close to home.
Yes, or in a block. The host service decides.
None, ever. Quizzes, portfolios and video tasks instead.
HLTAID012 is not taught here. You sit it with an outside provider at your own cost.
Yes. CHC30121 has been superseded by CHC30125. The college moves unfinished students across.
You set the pace. There are no semesters to wait on.
Open Colleges delivers this course online, from Australia.
Work placement is arranged with SkilTrak. The service sits close to where you live.
Picture the morning the room settles because you walked in.