Distance Learning - Neuroscience in Early Years (Level 2 Award) 2024-25

This qualification provides an introduction to neuroscience in the early years – from birth to seven years. Self-regulation in the early years is a critical set of skills that help children to remain calm, attentive, and able to deal with powerful emotions such as fear, anger, and sadness. Children are not born with these skills; they develop them over time when they are supported to understand their feelings and actions by caring and responsive adults. This qualification covers key factors that may affect development in children, such as stress, adverse childhood experiences, and special educational needs and disabilities.

This course is made up of two units.

Understanding neuroscience in early years:
• Neuroscience of early brain development
• Neurons and their main functions
• Synaptogenesis
• How the social brain develops

Understanding self-regulation and how to nurture this in children from birth to seven years:
• The Limbic System
• Self-regulation
• Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and influences that can affect a child's ability to self-regulate
• Co-regulation and its role
• Stresses which impact on children
• Adverse childhood experiences and how they influence long-term well-being and development
• The difference between predominant behaviours and alternative relational approaches and policies in behaviour management

This course in an Introduction to Neuroscience in Early Years can be applied in future career paths such as;

Teaching Assistant (£11,500 to £23,000)
Nursery Worker (£14,000 to £24,000)
Learning Mentor (£14,500 to £25,000)

Please see the distance learning introductory page to check your eligibility: https://edc.ac.uk/study/distance-learning

• you can complete your course online, by paper or online with paper resources
• we'll process your enrolment, and a tutor will be assigned to support you through your course, their contact details are in the joining instruction email
• an email containing your joining instructions will be sent, this email will contain your start and end date, submission dates. If completing online you will be advised of the weblink and your unique username for you to log into the e-assessor portal. If completing by paper you will still receive a joining instruction email and your paper resources will be posted out to you.
• if you need any guidance on your course content please contact your tutor direct.
• you will receive text reminders throughout your course
• your feedback from your tutor will either be online via e-assessor (located in my portfolio) or via email if completing by paper.

The course starts when you have received your joining instruction email containing your start, submission target dates and tutor contact details.

You have 10 weeks from enrolling to complete this course, this duration includes tutor feedback, internal verification and processing.