Early Childhood development
The Further Education and Training Certificate in Early Childhood Development is an entry level qualification designed to give you a foundation for teaching at this level.
Assessment Grade R Practices
(SACE endorsed 15 points)
The three main purposes of assessment standards are to:
Help teachers know when learners have achieved a learning outcome;
Show the minimum levels which learners should achieve in a specific grade;
Target Audience
Grade R practitioners, teaching Grade R in the Gauteng Department of Education.
B.Ed. Foundation Phase Teaching degree (Qualification code: 02593 NQF Exit level: 7 Total credits: 7 480)
This Bachelor of Education degree curriculum consists of 40 modules which includes:
Four year degree in collaboration with UNISA.
This Bachelor of Education degree curriculum consists of 40 modules
Further Education and Training Certificate. ECD specialization (NQF level 4 141 Credits)
Grade R Practitioners
Pre Grade R
Seventeen months duration leads to a full qualification at NQF level 4 Qualification title: Further Education and Training Certificate: Early Childhood Development. This qualification allows practitioners to further their qualifications in obtaining a diploma in Grade R teaching at NQF level 6 which can be used as an entry into the B.Ed. Foundation Phase programme
NQF Level 4 Programme: FETC 141 credits:
Pre Grade R: NCF (short programme) Professional Development:
Capacity building
Pre Grade R: NCF (Long Programme) Professional Development
Capacity building
The curriculum focuses on a series of actions that babies and young children must perform and experience to develop their unfolding abilities. It is about all activities in children’s lives: those facilitated by caregivers and those that children do on their own
Target Audience
Grade R Practitioners