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The objective of this course is to analyze one’s physical activity from the perspective of trends in health relating to lifestyle choices.

Competencies to be developed include:

• Establishing the relationship between one’s lifestyle habits and their health
• Being physically active in a manner that promotes good health
• Recognizing one’s needs, abilities, and motivational factors with respect to regular and sufficient physical activity
• To propose physical activities and nutritional guidance that promote a healthy lifestyle

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The objective of this course is to analyze and produce various forms of discourse.

Competencies to be developed are:

• To identify the characteristics and functions of the components of literary texts
• To determine the organizations of facts and arguments of a given literary text
• To prepare ideas and strategies for a projected discourse
• To explicate a discourse
• To edit the discourse

All competencies lead to the production of an approximately 750-word essay.

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This workplace-training course is the first of three fieldwork placement courses in the program. The stage-type course gives students the opportunity to gain a more thorough understanding of the reality of the profession and to situate themselves with regard to the requirements of the job by immersing themselves in a work setting. Students will come to recognize the different components of educational practice in the context of a real work environment. In addition, they will be initiated progressively into educational practice as a whole by executing simple tasks.

The stage will give students the opportunity to implement the skills and knowledge they will have gained simultaneously in their other courses, such as Foundations of Educational Practice, Understanding Educational Practice from 0-12 years, and Health Security and Nutrition for Children. It also provides students with the ideal environment for observation, experimentation, and learning.

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This course gives students the opportunity to explore and understand the profession of an Early Childhood Educator as well as gain a full understanding of the early childhood care services offered in the province of Quebec.

The course also offers students the opportunity to understand the prospects of an Early Childhood Education program graduate, what the objectives of the program are, and how the program will prepare students to be qualified educators.

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This course aims to establish the basis for educational actions and educational programs in daycare centers. The goal of the course is to expose students to the appropriate pedagogical approach of the educational program within a given daycare center environment.

In this course, students are introduced to a variety of industry-standard educational approaches, which they are given the opportunity to carry-out, namely:

• The democratic intervention with children
• The structuring of activities (schedule, routine and transition activities and play periods)
• The laying-out of the premises
• The choice of materials

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This course is offered in tandem with “Prevention and Intervention in Risky Situations” in order to establish significant links between the contents of both courses.

This course contributes to the personal and professional development of the student by helping them build their identity as an educator in training. The course examines the idea of the educator as a model for promoting healthy lifestyle and nutrition habits. Students are trained to develop an environmental conscience and raise self-awareness of intercultural dimensions, especially in relation to the diversity of the Montreal population.

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This course is offered at the beginning of the program and contributes to the personal and professional development of the students by training them to become aware of their responsibilities toward the health and safety of children in all daycare environments: child care centers, home childcare services, and schools.

This course allows students to develop attitudes and skills to recognize the situations that are risky in a childcare service, for the children as well as themselves. The course joins the first internship in a childcare setting in giving the students the opportunity to experiment and observe with new knowledge.

The course works in tandem with “Health and Nutrition in Early Childhood Settings” as prevention measures, in terms of safety, must be applied at all times in a childcare setting.

This course will also certify students in first-aid. The first-aid component is taught before the beginning of the first internship to ensure that students are prepared. The competencies acquired in these courses will be recalled frequently in each internship that students are immersed in as educators are responsible for maintaining a secure environment for the children in their care.

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In this course, students are exposed to the basic concepts that serve as explanatory models for the overall development and behaviors of a child and exposes students to various perspectives for psychological examination.

Students will learn to identify a child’s needs and recognize these needs as part of an intervention plan in the workplace and will adopt appropriate attitudes in response to them. In doing so, the course also acts as a tool for self-regulation and critical thought.

This initial course in psychology pinpoints the needs of a child while taking into consideration their overall development thus allowing the student to have a frame of reference to respond appropriately in various situations of the profession and of everyday life.

The course aims to develop skills to know (knowledge), to know how (action), and to learn to be (attitude).

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The objective of this course is to apply a critical approach to literary genres.

Competencies to be developed are:

• To distinguish genres of literary texts
• To recognize the use of literary conventions within a specific genre
• To situate work within its historical and literary period
• To explicate a discourse and representative of a literary genre
• To edit the discourse

All competencies lead to the effective presentation of an approximately 1000 word integrated response to a text.

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The objective of this course is to apply a logical and analytical process of thinking to how knowledge is organized and used.

Competencies to be developed are:

• To recognize the basic elements of a field of knowledge
• To define the modes of organizations and utilization of a field of knowledge
• To situate a field of knowledge within its historical context
• To organize the main components into coherent patterns
• To produce a synthesis of the main components

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The objective of this course is to apply basic concepts for communicating in standard French.

Competencies to be developed include:

• Writing and revising a simple text
• Understanding the meaning of a simple text
• Conveying a simple oral message
• Understanding the meaning of a simple oral message

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This course provides foundational knowledge about the physical and motor development of a child.

Students will study the evolution and interaction between motivity and perception in the development of body movement as well as the influence of movement on the behavior of a child in relation to their environment and that of their peers. Students will learn how to let a child gain and use their body autonomously, in a manner that promotes overall development.

The course is based on knowledge of the context and fundamentals of educational practices as well as concepts related to the development and health of a child. It is a significant foundational course that will facilitate the learning objectives of other courses pertaining to child development.

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This course teaches students how to incorporate children’s literature into their educational practices. Students learn how to work with and integrate different mediums of children’s literature: drama, film, and multimedia tools. In addition, students will learn how to promote the development of dramatic expression with groups of children.

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This course targets the competencies of communication and teamwork in the workplace. These abilities are necessary in order to favor efficient and harmonious communication among a team as well as to in order to be better prepared for conflict situations or collaborations in any professional intervention context.

It has been intentionally placed at the beginning of the program in order to enable the student to:

• Reuse the competencies learned during the course “Foundations and Practices of the Educational Action” 
• Develop appropriate attitudes (listening, availability, self-control, helping one another, open-mindedness, and tolerance)
• Use the basic techniques of communication and teamwork in order to use them in one’s communication with parents, other adults, and/or children
• Identify one’s strengths and limits as a communicator with other adults
• Participate in discussions about subjects of a professional nature

This course exposes students to the realities of linguistic developments of a child in the context of educational activities. Through the structuring of activities, structuring of venues, and interactions with children, students learn how to promote the development of language as well as techniques for detecting language difficulties that some children may experience.

The educational activity courses and the vocational training represent places of integration and transfer of learning of this course to various age groups.

Throughout the course, students will be asked to use creativity for the planning and conducting of activities, just like in the other courses of the categories field of activity and dimensions of development and educational activity.

In this course, students continue the study of the overall development of children aged 5 to adolescence. Students address issues of adulthood in relation to the development of the child, and, in doing so, the student develops critical self-regulation skills.

This second psychology course relates to the analysis of the needs of the child with regard to its overall development. The course allows students to have a frame of reference for professional interventions through the presentation of theoretical data as well as by continuously putting into question human functionality in order to better understand individuals, their behaviors, and their impact on a child.

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The general objective of this course is to enable the student to apply a critical approach to a literary theme. The student will study various examples in English literature in order to understand how well-known authors unify their works around themes.

Further, the student will be able to read various selections of unfamiliar literature, either fiction or non-fiction and discuss them intelligibly in writing through the understanding of their themes.

By the end of this course, the student will apply their understanding of the theme by writing an analysis of a literary text (an approximately 1000 word paper.)

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The objective of this course is to improve one’s effectiveness when practicing physical activity.

Competencies to be developed include:

• Planning an approach to improve one’s effectiveness when practicing a physical activity
• Using a planned approach to improve one’s physical health

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The objective of this course is to apply basic concepts for communicating in the French language in relation to the student’s field of study.

Competencies to be developed include:

• Writing and revising a short text related to the student’s field of study
• Understanding the meaning and characteristics of a text related to the student’s field of study
• Conveying a simple oral message related to the student’s field of study
• Understanding the meaning of a simple oral message related to the student’s field of study

This course exposes students to various methods of using artistic expression in educational activities. Students learn how to use this methodology to encourage the overall development of the child through the structuring of activities, the structuring of venues, and the development of a relationship with the children.

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This course enables students to adjust their educational activities in order to take into consideration the needs and expectations of children aged 5 to 12 years old. Students learn to act while respecting the needs and capacities of the children within that age group while taking into account the phases of their global development. Moreover, the student identifies the pedagogical methods to prioritize to answer adequately to the children’s needs.

This course reuses the theoretical and practical knowledge of the context and foundation of the educational activities and the notions of the child development, as well as the knowledge, acquires in the Psychology of Childhood to Maturity, Psychomotility of the Child and Childish Documentation and Dramatic Expression courses. The training courses represent places of integration and transfer of learning of this course to various age groups.

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This course gives students foundational knowledge on techniques for integrating sound and movement in their educational activities. Students learn how to use sound to promote the overall development of the child.

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This course enables students to take into account the intellectual dimension of the overall development of the child’s educational activity through the structuring of activities, the structuring of venues, and interactions with the child. Students learn how to motivate the child to progress in his understanding of the world and in his thought construction.

This course belongs to the Field of activity and dimensions of development category. It uses the theoretical and practical knowledge of the context and fundamentals of educational activity as well as the concepts of child development. It complements other courses related to overall development. The course introduces some basic concepts of creativity that will be reinvested in all the courses and especially in the course Personal, professional, and creative development. The educational activity course and the vocational training represent places of integration and transfer of learning of this course to various age groups.

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This course trains students to take into account the emotional, social, and moral dimensions of the overall development of the child in their educational activities. Students learn how to act in order to support the development of each one of the aspects through 3 of the 4 fields of application of the educational program (educational intervention with children, structuring of activities, structuring of venues).

This course belongs to the Field of activity and dimensions of development category. It uses theoretical and practical knowledge of the context and fundamentals of educational activity as well as the concepts of child development. It is also based on the Communication and teamwork course. It complements the other courses related to development (Psychomotility of the child, Stimulation of language, and The Cognitive development of the child). This course deals with a range of problematic, current situations, likely to be experienced daily in child care services and the possible intervention strategies available to manage them.

In this course, students will have to use creativity in planning and conducting activities, as in other courses of the categories Field of activity and dimensions of development and Educational activity.

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This course enables students to use all knowledge related to the educational activity developed in the courses on the dimensions of development and fields of activity. This course is a place of integration and transfer of learning for this age group.

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The objective of this course is to apply a critical thought process to world views.

Competencies to be developed are:

• To describe world views
• To explain the major ideas, values, and implications of a world view
• To organize the ideas, values, and experiences of a world view into coherent patterns
• To compare world views
• To convey the ideas, attitudes, and experiences of the societies or groups studied

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This course is part of a sequence of courses related to the emotional, social, and moral development of children and interventions. It is based on the knowledge gained in the courses: “Psychology of the child 0-6 years”, “Psychology from childhood to maturity”, “Prevention and intervention in risk situations”, “Communication and teamwork”, and “Emotional, social and moral development of the child,” which have all dealt with interventions in common situations.

This course enables students to recognize and understand the problems of behavior, adjustment, and situation and its analysis. It enables students to demystify the complexity of the intervention with the child and group of children experiencing specific difficulties. This course teaches the student to recognize the limits of his role as a teacher and to put into practice behaviors and ethical attitudes in the face of different problems.

The continuation of learning related to the intervention will take place in the courses Integration of children with special needs, Educational activity in complex situations, and the Integration Training course.

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The objective of this course is to communicate in the forms of discourse appropriate to one or more fields of study, focusing on citation styles and preparing the student for university-level writing.

Competencies to be developed include:

• Identifying the forms of discourse appropriate to given fields of study
• Recognizing the discursive frameworks appropriate to given fields of study
• Analyze and succinctly explain the main ideas of an oral and written discourse

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The objective of this course is to demonstrate one’s ability to assume responsibility for maintaining a healthy lifestyle through the continued practice of physical activity.

Competencies to be developed include:

• Planning a personal physical activity program
• Combining the elements of a regular and sufficient practice of physical activity as part of a healthy lifestyle
• Manage a personal physical activity program

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This course, on the fundamentals of 3D printing, takes a multidisciplinary approach to problem-solving by combing:

• Math
• Design
• Physics
• Computer science
• Engineering
• Biology

In today’s world, every field and every industry needs innovative thinkers that can make a difference. Inquiry-based learning is a 21st-century teaching and learning philosophy that requires students to not only be “problem solvers”, but “problem finders” as well. Instead of simply presenting established facts, teachers guide students to discover their worlds and how they could make it better. This is accomplished by posing questions, challenging the norm, and pushing the boundaries. Innovation is a keyword at the core of this philosophy.

No other technology, since the invention of the computer has the potential to positively impact education and learning as the 3D printer. 3D printers are now being used in practically every field. Learning how to use them is becoming as essential a skill as reading and writing.

From the medical field, automotive and aerospace industry, fashion, food, and architectures, 3D printers are becoming a regular on- the scene. Putting the world of 3D printing in the hands of students will help better prepare them to shape their world and be innovative in their field of choice.

This course, on the fundamentals of CAD design for rapid prototyping and 3D printing, provides all of the foundational knowledge necessary to bring the world of 3D printing to the students and start their journey to innovation in whichever field they choose to pursue.

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