Early Childhood 1: Grades 10-12
You must complete and hand in an application for your 10th or 11th grade year. When you are accepted into the program, you will spend a year in the classroom learning about children, preparing bulletin boards, making art projects, learning from guest speakers and planning nutritious parties for children.
Early Childhood Education 2 and 3: Grades 11-12
Each day you are transported to a preschool or elementary school to be a teachers assistant. At the end of this year, you receive your Children and Family Services 40-hour certificates, a Certificate of Completion, and you qualify as a candidate for the Gold Seal Scholarship.
Early Childhood Education 4
This program provides learning and hands-on activities that will prepare students with a range of management, supervisory, and teaching skills used by preschool teachers. Students will acquire competence in child development history, classroom management, developmentally appropriate practices and curriculum, current trends and issues, and universal infection control.
Family and Consumer Science Cooperative Education OJT: Grade 12 only
You earn credit toward graduation and have a paying job in child care. What a great way to learn new skills, meet new people, work toward a scholarship, and possibly land a job working with children!
