Early Years and Child Psychology QLS Level 3

Early Years

Level 3:

Unit 1: A Unique Child

• A child's development
• Factors affecting development
• Meeting the individual child's needs
• Differentiation
• Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
• Promoting children's physical and emotional wellbeing
• The Children Act 1989

Unit 2: Developing Positive Relationships

• Respectful relationships
• Communication needs
• Relationships within early years settings
• Children's friendships
• The Key Worker
• Effective communication with children
• Partnerships with parents
• Effective communication with parents
• Multi-agency working
• Confidentiality

Unit 3: Providing an Enabling Environment

• Organising the environment
• Laws and legislation
• Security
• Heating, Lighting and Ventilation
• Safety Equipment
• Risk Assessment
• The indoor environment
• The outdoor environment
• The wider environment
• The Common Assessment Framework

Unit 4: Supporting Children's Learning and Development

• Areas of development
• The characteristics of effective learning
• Playing and exploring
• Active learning
• The prime areas of learning
• Personal, Social and Emotional Development
• Physical Development
• The specific areas of learning
• Understanding the world
• Expressive arts and design
• Planning to meet children's development needs

Unit 5: Effective Planning, Observation and Assessment

• Observation
• Methods of observation
• Factors to consider when observing children
• Statutory assessment
• The Early Years Foundation Stage Profile
• Long-term planning
• Medium-term planning
• Short-term planning

Unit 6: Safeguarding the Welfare of the Child

• Child protection
• Spotting signs of abuse
• Responding to concerns
• RIDDOR 1995
• Providing a nutritionally balanced diet
• Food safety and hygiene
• Behaviour management
• The layout of the environment

Child Psychology

Level 3:

Unit 1: Defining Child Psychology

• How can we define childhood?
• Historical perspectives of childhood
• Emergence of psychology
• Psychoanalytical perspective
• Behaviourism
• Classical conditioning
• Changing behaviour
• The cognitive, physiological, scientific, humanistic and evolutionary approaches to psychology
• Research methods in psychology
• Child psychology tools

Unit 2: Forming Relationships in Childhood

• Attachment
• Nature/nurture debate
• Bowlby's theory
• Innate programming
• Different types of attachment
• Disruption of attachment
• The child’s first relationship

Unit 3: Perception, Cognition and Language

• Understanding language
• Cognitive structure and input
• Plurals, syntax and grammar
• The relevance of language to child psychology
• Cognition
• Vision and cognitive development
• Hearing and cognitive development
• Perception
• Piaget
• Socialisation

Unit 4: Emotional, Social and Moral Development

• Social learning theory
• Cognitive priming
• Kohlberg's perspective
• Eisenberg's perspective
• Emotion and morality
• Temperament and emotional development

Unit 5: Children's Minds

• Memory and memory processes
• Short and long term memory
• Models of memory
• Prenatal memory and learning
• From memory to mental activity
• The organisation of children's minds
• How children view others in their world
• How does all this relate to child psychology?

Unit 6: Moving Towards Adulthood

• Adolescence
• Development
• Having a sense of gender
• Change