In this course, students will learn to be an effective early childhood teacher and leader. They will learn to demonstrate an exemplary standard of teaching and be adaptable and highly proficient in critical and future thinking with a sound grasp of early childhood teaching and pedagogy. This course is ideal for teachers who aspire to meet the needs of contemporary early childhood services. Students will 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.