Course Overview
This programme aims to develop and improve “soft skills”, essential to your confidence and self-esteem, and gain knowledge and understanding of the opportunities you can pursue to progress into a career in the early years sector.
The course has been designed to be taught in a classroom environment with a combination of delivery methods including presentations and interactive activities, there will be 1:1 support from the tutor alongside working with your peers.
What will I learn?
Our early years course includes the following units/topics:
- Recognising confident thinking/behaviour
- Becoming more aware of the impact of low-confidence
- Understanding how self-confidence/self-esteem are related
- Becoming aware of own confidence levels.
- Understanding/applying a range of confidence improvement techniques
- Understand the roles and responsibilities of the role within the early years sector
- Identify different types of settings within the early years sector
- Understand communication techniques within early years settings
- Principles of business
- Business Communications and information
- Upholding excellent customer service standards
- Solving Problems and making decisions
Eligibility
This course is government-funded, and you must meet the following criteria to be able to study for free:
- You must currently live in West Yorkshire
- You must have been resident in the UK/EU for 3+ years for purposes other than study
- You must be over the age of 19