Thinking about work with kids but not sure where to start? This course takes you inside how children learn, feel and grow, from the first weeks through to how they see themselves. Study online, at your own pace.
Childcare centres, schools and family services take on support staff who understand how children develop. This course gives you that grounding, and the career centre helps with your CV and your interviews.
Already working with kids? You learn what sits behind the behaviour: how they learn, how emotions form, how language and thinking arrive. It changes how you handle the hard days.
It is online and self paced, with no exams and no set class times. Plenty of people take it while raising their own children, and what you learn lands at home too.
Support roles around children sit in childcare centres, schools and family services. The day is easy to picture: settling a child who is upset, helping one who is behind catch up, and telling a parent what you noticed.
Supporting a centre's teachers day to day, where knowing how children develop shapes every call you make.
Working one to one with a child who needs extra help. Development stages and behaviour are the core of it.
Helping students who need a hand in class. Learning, language and emotions are covered directly here.
Working with whole families. What you learn about socialisation and emotions is used on every visit.
Mentoring young people, where understanding how they think matters more than telling them what to do.
Learning the job on the floor, with the development knowledge already behind you.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Every role is different, and some need more study or experience. Teaching, psychology and therapy roles run through their own accredited study.
Twelve topics, from the newborn infant through to how children learn right from wrong.
Here is what stands out in this course.
You start with the newborn infant, their states and their senses, and work forward from there through learning, emotions and thinking.
You explore nature versus nurture, and how the way others see a child shapes what that child believes about themselves. You also look at cause and correlation, so you can weigh what you read.
How language arrives, what intelligence means in a child, and how a sense of right and wrong forms. Each one gets its own topic.
Socialisation runs across two topics rather than one, next to emotions and how children pick up the rules around them.
Certificate of Achievement · The Career Academy
Finish the course and the college awards you its Certificate of Achievement in child psychological development.
You earn Continuing Professional Development credits when you finish, so the study counts on your record.
Yours while you study, for student rates on travel, accommodation and more.
Send an enquiry and a course advisor gets back to you with the course guide and straight answers on whether it fits.
Start anytime. Pay on a flexible weekly plan, or pay upfront in one payment.
Work through the twelve topics online, with unlimited tutor support by phone and email in business hours.
Complete the course and receive your Certificate of Achievement, with CPD credits on your record.
None needed. It opens with an introduction to child psychology and builds from there, so you can come to it cold.
The plan is $29 a week. You can also pay upfront in one payment. Enquire for the full options.
Around 120 hours at your own pace, with 6 months of access. There are no set class times, so it fits around work and family.
There are none, ever. You are assessed on what you understand, with tutor support behind you.
Plenty of people take it for that reason. You cover how children learn, how emotions form, and how they build a picture of themselves. It lands at home as much as on the job.
It is accredited by ICOES and the CPD Standards Office, which is accreditation for professional development. It is not NZQA accredited, so it is not a national qualification. That is a different thing. For support roles around children, what counts is that you understand how they develop, and that is what this covers.
Yes. There is a 10-day money back guarantee. If it is not right, you get your money back.
This course is delivered by The Career Academy, an online course provider in New Zealand.
The college has been running for over 15 years and works with more than 25,000 students a year. Courses are online and self paced, with unlimited tutor support by phone and email in business hours. Career coaching opens as soon as you enrol, including CV help and a LinkedIn profile review.
Picture the morning a child who never settles takes your hand and walks straight in. Ask what you need to know and find out if this is the way there.