Early Childhood Education Resource Consulting

Program Overview:

The Early Childhood Education Resource Consulting graduate certificate program provides early childhood educators with the specialized knowledge, skills and abilities to work as resource consultants with children with special needs and their families. Through interactive classroom learning and integrative field placement experiences, students will develop skills that will enable them to work in collaboration with families, colleagues and communities to support inclusive early learning environments.

Admission Requirements:

• GPA: 60% or above

• IELTS: Overall 6.5 no band below than 6.0

• PTE: Overall 63 with no band below than 60

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Learning Outcomes:

1. Build and maintain responsive relationships and partnerships with children with special needs and families from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds including Indigenous peoples’ worldviews and Francophone identity, to provide culturally relevant early learning opportunities, programs and services.

2. Recommend, discuss and plan, in partnership with families and early childhood educators, inquiry and play-based early learning program adaptations to accommodate and support learning, holistic development and well-being in children with special needs.

3. Advise and lead early childhood educators and children’s service partners in the development of a philosophy of inclusion and policies and practices that support diverse, equitable and accessible learning opportunities for children with special needs and their families.

4. Administer observation strategies and screening tools to interpret and document children’s learning and to identify children with challenges and facilitate families’ referrals to resources for further assessment and intervention as necessary.

5. Collaborate with children, families, early learning educators, health professionals and children’s service partners to facilitate the planning, co-ordination and evaluation of individualized support plans for children with special needs.

Career Outlook:

Graduates of this program will expand their employment opportunities to work as consultants for inclusive education in schools, early years environments and community agencies. Graduates will be qualified to be Resource Consultants under the Child Care and Early Years Act.

Program Intake: May

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