College Diploma in Early Childhood Education

Northern College

Students will graduate ready to thrive as part of a multidisciplinary team that works with infants and children up to 12 years old. You will have the opportunity to nurture learning and imagination to help these children to transition successfully to the school system. In a dynamic group learning environment, you’ll explore how to best support a child’s growth with creative strategies that leverage their natural stages of development.The Children’s ECE Play Lab provides students with the opportunity to design, setup, monitor and make improvements to an early years learning environment. Partnerships with local early learning centres will provide our students with the unique opportunity to work closely with young children in a controlled environment.Early Childhood Education – Distance Delivery (A015)Our Distance Early Childhood Education Program is offered fully online. The ECE distance program is synchronous, meaning, classes are scheduled each semester for a class day and time for you to attend online. It is important to note that all classes that have lab components, preparation for placement and placement/seminar have mandatory attendance requirements and participation in order to be successful in the course.Students who are in our distance program must have a working camera and microphone on their device. This is a mandatory requirement for our distance program as it will allow students to participate and engage with classmates and the course material.Our distance students can do their placements in their city/town of their choice, but placements are done in person in the agencies.Placements are generally completed in the last semester of our program. Both the on campus and distance Early Childhood Education Program are vigorous programs

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