Early Years for Childcare, Nursery Staff and Parents
- Location
- Online Meetings
- SCQF Level
- 5
- Start Date & time
- 20 Aug 2024 @ 18:00-21:00
- Qualification Type
- Non-certificated
- Course Type
- Part-Time
- Duration
- 7 x 3 hours sessions (Tuesday evenings)
£200.00
This Early Years for Childcare, Nursery Staff and Parents course will develop your skills and knowledge to support young children’s wellbeing, development and engagement with curricular aspects of early years education. It is ideal for parents, carers and those working within an early years setting.
What will I learn?
This course will cover:
- Supporting children and young people with additional support needs (ASN)
This is an interactive and engaging session that will give you the knowledge, skills, and tools to work with children who have ASN. - Storytelling
This workshop will offer practical ideas for engaging children through storytelling to promote language and literacy. - Learning for sustainability
This session will cover how learning for sustainability is understood and implemented by education and community learning to support the future workforce. - Trauma informed practice
This session will cover becoming trauma informed, it will provide the skills and strategies of how to support children with adverse childhood experiences. - STEAM in early years
This session will cover a range of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics workshops to develop STEAM skills. - Autism awareness
This session will cover what autism is and how it affects children and young people, how to identify and address the challenges facing those with autism and strategies to engage positively with and support those with autism. - Child protection
This session will cover what child protection is, legislation in Scotland, national guidance for child protection in Scotland, PVG, who is responsible for keeping a child safe from harm, types of abuse and neglect, signs of abuse, what to do if a child discloses abuse, the effects of abuse, risk assessment, and Child B significant case review (neglect).
This course will be delivered on Teams in seven online sessions of three hours. Dates as follows: 20 and 27 August, 3, 10, 17, 24 September and 1 October.
All materials are supplied by the College and will be available online.
Please note: this course can also be delivered on bespoke basis to groups.
Each area can be delivered seperately either online or face-to-face.
If you are interested, please email us at bdu@glasgowclyde.ac.uk
Entry requirements (minimum)
This course has no formal entry requirements.
Jobs and further study
After completing this course, you may choose to continue to study our other Upskills courses or progress into accredited courses to enhance your knowledge and grow your prospects.