Graduate Diploma
Based on Australia's national Early Years Learning Framework for early childhood teachers, this graduate diploma prepares you to enrich the minds and bodies of infants, toddlers and young children (aged birth to five years) in educational environments, designing and demonstrating high-quality learning experiences. As an early childhood teacher, you will support young learners and their families as advocates, enablers, custodians and thinkers; global citizens in yet-to-be-imagined futures.
On completing this diploma, you will become an innovative and attuned professional teacher with the knowledge, skills and experience to work in private enterprise, government agencies and community-based early childhood education settings locally and globally.
At the end of your studies, you'll be qualified to teach in early childhood settings in Australia and hold transferable skills to work here and overseas.
You must have successfully completed an Australian Bachelor degree (or equivalent overseas qualification) in any discipline.
English language requirementIf you did not complete your initial tertiary qualification in English at an approved institution in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom or the United States of America you must complete an IELTS test. You must achieve:
IELTS (academic): minimum overall band of 7.0 with no individual band less than 6.5;
or
Equivalent scores in one of the approved English proficiency tests.
Upon completion of this graduate diploma, you will be qualified to teach in early childhood education settings, both in Australia and overseas.
The market for early childhood teachers is forecast to remain very strong over the coming years, with an expected 29,000 job openings over the next five years.