College Diploma in Early Childhood Education

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 placementseminar 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 citytown 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

To be eligible you must possess the equivalent of an Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD).

Proof of Senior High School Diploma/Certificate

English Proficiency (we will require one of the following): IELTS Academic International English Language Testing System: minimum overall score of 6.0 must be achieved with no individual band score under 6.0; however, we will accept one band at 5.5; TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) – Computer-based overall minimum score of 79; PTE (Pearson Test of English) Academic – Graduate Diploma: 58+.