Certificate Program Listing: Early Years

We offer the following certificate program courses related to Early Years:

Details about each of these certificate program courses is below.

  • Effective Teaching, Part 2

    Program Overview:

    In this Module participants will continue to experience and investigate how effective teaching increases student achievement and student involvement in learning. In this module, researched instructional and assessment strategies, effective classroom and conflict management ideas and transformational unit and lesson planning, will be researched, analyzed and practiced. All module members will have the weekly opportunity to participate fully in a collaborative, inquiry-based learning process where they will apply and discuss the effectiveness of proven teaching methods consolidating their skills in:

    • Continuing to experience and analyze strategies to create learning environments where students are active participants as individuals and as members of collaborative groups
    • Experiencing and reflecting on effective and efficient classroom management promoting risk taking and appropriate student behaviour
    • Designing units and lessons exploring, experiencing and investigating the role of motivation and engagement in student learning
    • Identifying and employing a wide variety of instructional, assessment and evaluation strategies and tools which promote deeper learning for all
    • Investigating learning materials that promote learning the Greek Language.

    Program Format:

    • Offered in a blended format
    • Consists of 36 instructional hours
    • A Certificate of Completion is awarded at the conclusion of the program
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    • Pedagogical Documentation In Early Childhood Education Program Overview:

      This course introduces participants to the experience of the city of Reggio Emilia, in northern Italy, in designing and sustaining infant-toddler centres and schools for children ages 3-6 that have astonished the world with the children's competence. We will study features of this experience closely, in particular the environment as a third teacher, documentation, materials as graphic languages of expression, inquiry as theory-building, and collaboration.

      Participants enrolled in the course through the Professional Learning Office will follow the course intent and outline for EDUC 5546. The course outline will be provided but participants will not need to meet the requirements for written assignments and evaluation.

      Course Fee: $ 500.00 + $ 65.00 HST = $ 565.00

      Cancellation Policy: Withdrawals are effective on the date the request is submitted. Course fees refunded subject to $150 non-refundable amount. No withdrawals or refunds on or after the course start date. Find out more about Pedagogical Documentation In Early Childhood Education...

    • The Reggio Emilia Approach to Early Childhood Education

      This course explores the inspiration and challenge to North American practice of the Reggio Emilia Approach to Early Childhood Education. This city of 133,000 in Italy is world renowned for its communal, municipal early childhood programme of 32 schools for very young children. Their holistic, postmodern philosophy and practice challenge mainstream western practice with young children, suggesting children are much more intellectually and socially capable than we think.

      Participants enrolled in the course through the Professional Learning Office will follow the course intent and outline for EDUC 5545. The course outline will be provided but participants will not need to meet the requirements for written assignments and evaluation.

      Participants need to:

    • Purchase the required texts and the course
    • Participate in book groups, which means reading one chapter daily from one of the texts, and preparing it for discussion in small group and plenary session.
    • Participate in Group Work in Documenting and in Presentation. This experiential portion of the course requires daily attendance and work with a small group both to document and to be documented. It includes the creation of pedagogical documentation, a process that lasts the length of the course.

      • What is NOT required by participants is written submission of thought journals or of the academic paper for grading. If you wish to submit a thought journal excerpt you are welcome to do so. The instructor will read and comment on it, but not grade it.

      ALL OTHER ASPECTS OF THE COURSE REMAIN THE SAME FOR BOTH GRADUATE STUDENTS AND PARTICIPANTS THROUGH PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT.

      Course Fee: $500 + $65 HST = $565

      Cancellation Policy: Withdrawals are effective on the date the request is submitted. Course fees refunded subject to $150 non-refundable amount. No withdrawals or refunds on or after the course start date.

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