CHC50113 Diploma: Designing Curriculum for Early Childhood Learning

This practical assignment focuses on designing and implementing a curriculum to foster children's learning and development in early childhood education. It involves gathering information about three children from different age groups (babies, toddlers, and pre-schoolers) through observation and secondary sources. The assignment includes developing curriculum activities for each child, planning learning experiences, implementing these experiences, and collecting feedback from a supervisor. Key aspects covered include promoting children's agency, nurturing creativity, and supporting holistic development through play-based activities, intentional teaching, and family input. The curriculum aims to enhance physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development, with specific learning outcomes tailored to each age group.

Workplace Task
CHCECE017 FOSTER THE HOLISTIC DEVELOPMENT AND
WELLBEING OF THE CHILD IN EARLY CHILDHOOD
l CHCECE018 NURTURE CREATIVITY IN CHILDREN¬
l CHCECE022 PROMOTE CHILDREN'S AGENCY
l CHCECE024 DESIGN AND IMPLEMENT THE CURRICULUM TO FOSTER
CHILDREN’S LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT
CHC50113 DIPLOMA OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE

CHCECE024 – DESIGN AND IMPLEMENT THE CURRICULUM
TO FOSTER CHILDREN’S LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT
CHCECE017 – FOSTER THE HOLISTIC DEVELOPMENT AND
WELLBEING OF THE CHILD IN EARLY CHILDHOOD
CHCECE018 – NURTURE CREATIVITY IN CHILDREN
CHCECE022 - PROMOTE CHILDREN'S AGENCY
Overview:
You need to complete five activities.
Activity 1: In this activity, you need to gather the information about three children from different
age group through primary and secondary sources and complete the provided template.
Activity 2: In this activity, you need to develop curriculum (set of activities) for the three children’s
that you have observed in the activity 1.
Activity 3: In this activity you need to use the information collected in activity 1 and 2 and plan three
learning activities for each focus group.
Activity 4: In this activity you need to implement the learning experiences that you have
prepared in the activity 3.
Activity 5: You are required to collect feedback from your supervisor on the given template.
Activity 1
In this activity, you need to gather the information about three children from different age group
(Babies, Toddlers and Pre-schoolers) through primary and secondary sources and complete the
provided template.
You need to complete this task during the work placement.
You must obtain permission from each child parents and supervisors by using permission to observe
a child. Form can be found at the end of the booklet. You may include photographs if you have
parental permission to do so.
You must ensure that your discussions and reporting are unbiased. Avoid labelling children in a
negative manner and be respectful in your writing.

Child 1:
Child’s Name Date:
Daniel 14st January 2022
Educator Name: Age of child:
1 year
Template to gather information about child
Activities observed: <<Write
child activities that you have
observed>>
It has been observed that a child is playing with blanket and also
rolls the balls for fun (Husni, 2020).
Write main strengths and
interests of the child?
Daniel has a strength of crawling and have an interest in playing
with the balls.
Physical development Daniel is able to sit without leaning anything also can stand and
move by holding the furniture.
Social development A 1-year child is mostly attached with their parents and love to
play with them.
Emotional/psychological
development
Daniel is able to feel and express his emotions when his parents
leave the room by crying.

Template to gather information about child
Communication development A child is able to communicate by pointing out the things or
pictures he wants.
Cognitive development A child is very conscious to learn any object working so Daniel try
to open the drawers and pushing the button and remember the
activities for long time.
Write current goals of the child. Learning outcome 1:
The child has to walk and roam without holding anything.
Learning outcome 2:
A child have to interact with the people and learning activities as
well.
Learning outcome 3:
Daniel has to learn, to recognize his family members as when his
parents leave he started crying (Tyson, N. and Frank, M., 2018).
Learning outcome 4:
A child has to try to speak and understand the few instructions like
“come here”.
Learning outcome 5:
Daniel has to remember the different voices whenever someone
called.

Child 2:
Child’s Name Date:
Olivia 14st January 2022
Educator Name: Age of child:
1-4 years
Template to gather information about child
Activities observed: <<Write
child activities that you have
observed>>
It has been observed that child is able to walk without holding anything
and can understand the scenarios.
Write main strengths and
interests of the child?
Olivia has a strength of recognizing the colors and shapes and having
an interest in learning new activities.
Physical development A toddler is able to run and jump.
Social development Olivia is able to interact and make new with her friends.
Emotional/psychological
development
The child of age 1 to 4 years is able to understand the feelings of others
and cry when someone other gets hurt.

Template to gather information about child
Communication development Olivia is able to say the few simple words and can also call their
friends and parents by saying their names (Pellas, Fotaris, Kazanidis,
and et.al., 2019).
Cognitive development A toddler is able to shape the puzzles.
Write current goals of the
child.
Learning outcome 1:
A toddler has to learn climbing and tricycle.
Learning outcome 2:
Olivia has to understand the commands for example whenever
someone says stand up she has to understand the words.
Learning outcome 3:
Toddler has to learn and understand the feeling of others and need to
show concern.
Learning outcome 4:
Olivia has to learn the sentences and rhymes and can convey them
easily.
Learning outcome 5:
A toddler has to learn to sort and construct the blocks and shapes.

Child 3:
Child’s Name Date:
Emma 14st January 2022
Educator Name: Age of child:
4-6 years
Template to gather information about child
Activities observed: <<Write
child activities that you have
observed>>
It has been observed that Emma likes to learn new skills and abilities
as she is able to capture and understand the picture.
Write main strengths and
interests of the child?
A 4-6 year old children has an ability to listen the speech carefully and
can understand. Emma has an interest in learning.
Physical development A preschooler children has an ability to climb, throw and kick the balls
easily and also able to walk up and down the stairs.
Social development This age of children has made an interaction between each other and
shares the toys and books with their friends.

Template to gather information about child
Emotional/psychological
development
Emma started feeling different emotions like jealousy as when
someone plays with her best friend.
Communication development The preschooler child is able to understand the letters and numbers and
can pronounce them.
Cognitive development Emma has a skill to recognize the shapes and colors and also can write
few names.
Write current goals of the
child.
Learning outcome 1:
Emma has to learn the dressing herself without any help.
Learning outcome 2:
She has to learn the good and bad behavior of people around her
(Yogman, Garner, and et.al., 2018).
Learning outcome 3:
Emma has to learn and understand the emotions of others and can
make the person happy by giving them hug.
Learning outcome 4:
Preschooler child has to learn a language and sing the rhyming
together.
Learning outcome 5:
She has to learn about the numbers and counting as when she must
know about her age if someone asked.

Activity 2: Develop curriculum
In this activity, you need to develop curriculum (set of activities) for the three children that you have
observed and gathered information about in the Activity 1. You must involve other educators,
children and families during the development of the curriculum.
Each curriculum must promote and encourage children’s agency and include:
 Input to the curriculum by children, family members and other educators
 Programs, environments and experiences that support all areas of child development
 Programs, environments and experiences that support self-expression, self-help and
independence, self- concept and self-esteem
 Opportunities for children to express their thoughts, feelings and ideas
 Range of opportunities to nurture creativity including:
l Music
l Movement
l Construction
l Visual art
l Dramatic play
At least one of these must be child-initiated
 Opportunity for exploration and risk-taking activities
 A mixture of:
l Group experience
l Intentional teaching
l Play-based activities
l Child-initiated experiences
l Family input.
l Children’s interests (as documented in Part A of this Assessment Task)
You need to use curriculum template to complete this activity.
Child 1 Child 2
Experience
1
Cognitive milestone
“Recognizing body parts”
This is the first curriculum
activity that has been
organized for the child 1.
Under this, the
understanding of the
mandatory body parts such
as, nose, ear mouth and so
on has been made learn.
Building blocks
This activity has been
considered as the best activity
for the toddler child. Under
this, the child will given the
different block that is consists
of alphabets and then the
child will join them (Nguyen,
2019).
Dance
This has been considered
as the physical activity that
enhances the growth of the
child (Usakli, 2018).
Experience
2 Physical milestone
“Clapping”
The second activity
includes the clapping it is
Play-based learning
This involves the playing
with group. Under this, 4-5
child has been gathered and
Learning a language
Emma comes under the 4-6
age. Therefore, it is
important that she learns a

considered as the physical
movement for babies.
Also, this activity will lead
to address the good gesture
and posture to the child
(García-Soidán and et.al.,
2021).
then together they play and
makes the learning. For
example: Running, jumping
and so on.
new language so, the
further studies can be done
in easy manner.
Experience
3 Blowing bubbles
This activity leads to
increase the concentration
rate of babies. When the
bubbles are blown around
them. The baby will pop
them. The complete
concentration of the child
is on popping the bubble
(Ebbeck and et.al., 2020).
Learning shapes and figures
The chart has been given to
the child and she will
recognize the shapes and
figures that includes Fruits.
Animals and flowers name
(Bucheli, Bohara and
Fontenla, 2018).
Dramatic
Drama is consists of fun-
based learning. It involves
the different children. And
they perform the drama in
relation of the short stories
that has been described in
their book (Colverd and
Jagiełło-Rusiłowski, 2021).

After the completion of th curriculum, you need to answer the following questions.
Questions Child 1 Child 2 Child 3
Q1. Write
the input
that you
have
received
from other
educators
and families?
It has been received by the
family input about the
child that he is able to
move their body like
clapping the hands and
enjoying it very well.
The child easily
recognizing the name of
fruits, animals and
flowers. Also, the child
is becoming active in
outdoor games that is
concerned with running
and jumping.
The child is trying to speak the
language that has been learned in
school. Also, the child is trying to
dance at home as well.
Q2. Write
the input
that you
have
received
from other
children’s?
From looking and
observing the children it
has been founded that the
Daniel is now able to
recognize the things and
start pointing out.
The other children's has
provided the input in
relation of the group
task that is play based
learning. It has been
found that, the child is
enjoying the games.
It has been known that, child feels
happy while playing the main
characters in the drama.
Q3. How this
curriculum
will help the
focus
children’s that
you have
observed in
the activity 1.
This curriculum will help a
Daniel in learning new
things and can be able to
spell and recognize the
body parts and pictures
(Albert, M.V., Sugianto,
and et.al., 2020).
This activity will help the
toddler in recognizing the
shapes, building the blocks
and also allow them to
learn the play based games
like jumping and climbing.
These curriculum activities will
enhance the mental, physical and
emotional abilities of the child. The
curriculum development is about
the over-all development.
Therefore, the selected activities
will enhance the complete
development of the child.

Q4. What
opportunities
do children
have within the
curriculum to
explore and
take risks?
It has been observed that
babies are able to move
their body as crawling and
walking and sometimes
they had fallen down
which is a risk taking
activity.
According to these
activities, it has been
founded that toddlers likes
to learn the things by
playing which includes the
climbing and jumping
which can hurt them but
still trying to enhance the
activities and learning.
The opportunities that child has,
increasing mind capabilities,
effective vocabulary and becoming
physical active. The risk of having
difficulty in reading can be come
but with the help of learning
language activity it can be solved.
Q5. What are
the creative
opportunities
for children’s
in the
curriculum?
Daniel has a creative
opportunity to create
concentration power by
blowing up the bubbles
and also be able to have an
identification ability to
learn about the body parts.
Olivia gets different
opportunities through this
curriculum as she will be
able to climb and jump,
increases its focus by
building the blocks and
also enable them to
recognize the shapes and
colors.
The creative opportunity for the
child is to learn new form of dance.
Q6. Explain
how the
curriculum will
provide
development
in the
children’s?
As, the teacher will help
the children in recognizing
the body parts by saying
them where is your nose
and a child can be able to
put the finger on their
nose. Along with this, the
baby can be able to move
and walk by holding
something which will
giving an opportunity to
walk straightly and also
can improve their
concentration by blowing
the bubbles.
The tutor of the toddlers
will support them to
increase their mental
power by focusing on the
numbers and alphabets by
building the blocks
(Guedes, Cadima and
et.al., 2020). In addition,
it also will help Olivia to
increase her physical
development by jumping
and climbing and can also
learn the shapes and
colors.
The curriculum activities leads to
provide the over-all development in
the child by focusing on mental,
physical and social aspects equally
(Philpott and et.al., 2019).