This document provides an introduction and overview of the Child Development course. It outlines that the course will cover topics related to families, parenting, childcare, development, food, health and safety. It notes several career paths related to child development and explains why understanding child development is relevant. It provides expectations for student participation, required materials, and describes how students will complete a weekly folio of work and either a baby simulation assignment or alternative assignment to demonstrate their learning.

1. Child Development
Introduction

2. Health – Child Development
 Child development relates to all of us because we have all been through it
and it has a direct impact on who we are now.
 Links directly with Year 11 Health and Human Development. Also relevant to
Psychology.
 Career paths: Child Care, Kindergarten Teacher, Primary / Secondary Teacher,
Counsellor / Psychologist, Community Services, Health / Medicine and many
more.
 AND…
 Basically anything that requires working with people because understanding
people makes them easier to work with!

4. Topics to be covered
 Family and home
 Becoming a parent
 Caring for babies
 Development
 Early Childhood
 Food
 Health and safety

5. Why Child Development
1, 3, 5 activity:
Why did you choose Child Development?
What do you hope to learn?
What are some ideas for your future
career?
What is a reason that Child Development
will be relevant to you?

6. Equipment for every class:
 A notebook or folder with loose leaf
 A4 display book or plastic pockets in your
folder
 Device / USB

7. Weebly and contact info
 Throughout the semester the majority of your work will be set out on this
site: shschilddevelopment.weebly.com
 Please note the Weebly will be updated throughout the semester and future
activities and tasks may change.
 Robyn can be contacted through messages on Xuno or by email:
hough.robyn.r@edumail.vic.gov.au
 Robyn’s office is in the PL Centre 

8. Expectations
 Join in, participate and do your best. A positive attitude always helps!
 Year 10 – act like you want to be treated
 Bring required equipment to every class
 Make the most of class time to learn
 Mobile phones only okay for music while working
 Headphones out during instruction and class discussion
 Catch up on work missed while you are away

9. Assessment
 Folio of work – each week you will complete a task relating to the topic.
These need to be completed at the end of each week and will be submitted
for assessment every 4 weeks.
 Think it over baby assignment – Part of this subject is the possibility of
taking home a baby simulator overnight or over a weekend. You receive a
mark for how well you look after the baby and also for the written part of the
assignment.
 Alternative assignment – if you choose not to take the baby home, you will
need to complete an alternate assignment which will be given to you.

10. Folio of work
 Each week in Child Development you will have a choice about how you
demonstrate your learning for the topic.
 Work should be completed by the end of class each week unless extension is
given by the teacher.
 Folio’s will be collected approximately every 4 weeks for assessment.
 At the end of each topic we will complete a whole class review on the topic
learnt.

11. Presentation of Folio
 You may choose to complete your folio in a book or on a computer. Either way
you must be able to submit a hard copy (printed or your book) as required.
 Each entry of your folio should be set out as follows:
 Heading: Week … Topic... Date...
 Subheading: by...(your name)
 Example:

12. Questions?
 Any questions so far?
 Activity - Weebly practice: Get a device and open up the weebly page.
 shschilddevelopment.weebly.com
 Choose any topic and open up one of the chapters for the topic.
 Find the Learning intention for topic 3.