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Teaching and professional development

We welcome over 1000 Early Childhood students every year. We offer two main qualifications for undergraduate students.

Qualifications

BA (Hons) Early Childhood

Top-up BA (Honours) Early Childhood

Free learning

We also work collaboratively with partners to offer opportunities for professional development through our contribution to free OpenLearn courses, FutureLearn and a variety of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) and Badged Open Courses (BOC).

If you work with young children and are looking to develop your career or are interested in a career in early education you might find these free courses useful. They are organised into three areas:

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Supporting learning

Listening to young children: supporting transition

Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers

Young children, the outdoors and nature

Children and young people’s participation

Understanding language and learning

Exploring equality and equity in education

Supporting Physical Development in Early Childhood

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Child development

Child development and learning activities

Supporting children's development

Understanding children: Babies being heard

Play, learning and the brain

Attachment in the early years

Physical activity: a family affair

Children’s perspectives on play

The family at the centre of early learning

Physical and mental health for young children on OpenLearn

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Professional development

Learning how to learn

Succeed with learning

Early years team work and leadership

Teaching assistants: Support in action (Wales)

Understanding research with children and young people

Working with diversity in services for children and young people

Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner

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