Confederation College’s Early Childhood Education program is designed to give students a broad education in the theory of Early Childhood Education, child development, early childhood curriculum, and pedagogy. You’ll get the skills and knowledge you need to plan educational programs and play environments to nurture each child’s development and learning, making a real difference in their lives. Courses cover a wide range of ECE topics including play-based learning; effective interpersonal communication; child development; working with families; guidance; and health, safety, and wellness.
Top Highlights
Program Learning Outcomes
The graduate has reliably demonstrated the ability to:
create learning contexts to enable, build and maintain caring, responsive relationships in partnerships with children, families and communities that value and respect social, cultural and linguistic diversity including Indigenous peoples’ worldviews and Francophone identity.
co-create, facilitate and reflect upon inquiry and play-based early years and child care programs and pedagogical approaches to support children’s learning, holistic development and well-being following children’s capabilities, interests, ideas and experiences.
co-design and maintain inclusive early learning environments to value and support equitable, accessible and meaningful learning opportunities for all children, their families and communities in a range of early years and child care settings.
collaborate with children, families, colleagues, agencies and community partners to create, maintain, evaluate and promote safe and healthy early learning environments to support independence, reasonable risk-taking and healthy development and well-being.
use observation strategies to identify children’s strengths and challenges and to ascertain when children and families might benefit from additional support or community resources.
Employment Opportunities
Graduates of the Early Childhood Education program work in a variety of settings including infant, toddler and preschool (including child care and nursery school) programs; before-and after-school programs, kindergarten programs and primary grade classrooms; special education and intervention programs; Ontario Early Years Centres; Head Start programs, family supports; home child care programs; parent/child/caregiver drop-in programs; paediatric playrooms; and health care settings.
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4 Setembro 2024
Confederation College
Thunder Bay Campus,
1450 Nakina Drive,
THUNDER BAY,
Ontario (ON),
P7B 0E5, Canada
A high school/senior secondary diploma
Original transcripts as well as a notarized, translated copy must be provided where applicable
English Proficiency
Academic IELTS: 6.0, no band lower than 5.5, except for students from India who must have no band lower than 6.0 to meet SDS requirements.
TOEFL iBT: 80 (no band less than 20)
PTE-A: 54 (no communicative skill lower than 54)
Duolingo: 105 (no band lower than 85)
CAEL: 60 (no band lower than 60)
A Confederation College tem uma taxa de emprego para graduados de 91,1%, a segunda maior entre todas as faculdades de Ontário.