If you want to work in a childcare room, this course gets you started. You learn play, safety, babies, frameworks and child protection, online at times that suit you, plus two hundred hours of placement.
CHC30121 is the entry point services ask for.
Debra Hine and Mindy Gore teach this course. Both have worked in early childhood, so the lessons come from people who have done the job.
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.
A course advisor confirms the placement arrangements with you before you commit.
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 confirms the placement arrangements with you when you enquire. The course itself has a minimum of two hundred hours, to be done part time or in a block depending on the host service.
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 CHC30121 has been superseded by CHC30125.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 anywhere in Australia.
There are no start or finish dates, and no semesters. Trainers Debra Hine and Mindy Gore both worked in early childhood before teaching.
Picture the morning the room settles because you walked in.