Course List - Early Childhood Education

The objective of this course is to analyze one’s physical activity from the standpoint of a healthy lifestyle.
Competencies to be developed include:

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

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 discoure

All competencies lead to the production of a 750 word essay.

The stage will give the student the opportunity to implement the skills and knowledge they will have gained simultaneously in their other courses 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.

In this course, the students are introduced to the use of the educational approach through the experience lived in class: the conception, the organisation and the leading of three out of fours application field from the educational program, namely the democratic intervention with children, the structuring of activities (schedule, routine and transition activities and play periods), the laying-out of the premises and the choice of material.

This course contributes to the personal and professional development of the student by helping him or her build his or her identity as an educator in training. This course allows the student to get to know him or herself as a model promoting healthy life and nutrition habits.

This course will also lead the student into developing an environmental conscience and raising his or her own awareness of the intercultural dimension.

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 a work within its historical and literary period
• To explicate a discourse representative of a literary genre
• To edit the discourse
• All competencies lead to the effective presentation of an 1000 word integrated response to a text.

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

The objective of this course is apply a logical analytical process 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 organization and utilization of a field of knowlege
• To situate a filed of knowledge withing its historical context
• To organize the main components into coherent patterns
• To produce a synthesis of the main components

The course is based on knowledge of the context and the fundamentals of educational practice, as well as on concepts related to the development and health of the child. It is complementary to the other courses pertaining to overall development.

The course is based on the knowledge of the context and the fundamentals of educational practice, as well as on concepts related to the development of the child. It is complementary to the other courses pertaining to overall development.

The course Communication and Team Work targets the acquisition of communication and team work abilities necessary to the teacher’s educational action in the goal to favour an efficient and harmonious communication among the team and prepare oneself to face conflicting situations or collaborations in any professional intervention context. It has been placed at the beginning of the apprenticeship to enable the student to:

• Reuse the apprenticeship realized during the course Foundations and Practices of the Educational Action such as listening attentively, expressing oneself clearly and learn to help one another;
  Develop appropriate attitudes (listening, availability, self-control, helping one another, open-mindedness and tolerance);
• Use the basic techniques of communication and the team work abilities in order to use them in one’s communication with parents, other adults and the children;
• Identify one’s strengths and limits as a communicator with the adults;
• Participate in discussions about subjects of a professional nature.

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

In this course, the student will have 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.

The objective of this course is to improve one’s effectiveness when practising a 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 effectiveness when practising a physical activity

The objective of this course is to apply a critical approach to a literary theme.
Competencies to be developed are:

• To recognize the treatment of a theme within a literary text
• To situate a literary text within its cultural context
• To detect the value system inherent in a literary text
• To explicate a discourse from a thematic perspective
• To edit the discourse

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

The objective of this course is to apply basic concepts for communicating in French 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
• Understaning the meaning and characteristics of a tex 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

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

In this course, the student will have 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

The course is based on basic and practical skills and knowledge of the context and the fundamentals of educational practice, as well as on concepts related to the development of the child.

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.

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 team work 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.

This course allows students to use the approach of educational activity in everyday situations in the child care services.

This course reuses the theoretical and practical knowledge of the context and foundation of the educational action 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.

The objectives 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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The stage will give the students the opportunity to implement the skills and knowledge they will have gained simultaneously in their other courses, as well as provide them with an environment for observation, experimentation, integration and transfer. This course should be followed in conjunction with the course Educational practice and Experimentation.

Since this course is given in conjunction with the stage, it will provide the students with the necessary tools to plan their educational practice. With the fieldwork placement, the course will give the students the opportunity to implement the skills and knowledge that they will have gained in other courses.

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.

Holder of professional ethics in the second year, it also allows students to adopt ethical behaviors and attitudes.

This course, directly related to Training course 2 and to the course Educational activity and experimentation, enables students to practice active observation on the ground and analyze the needs of a child and a group of children in the training course. It is also linked to the course Difficulties of adaptation and child behavior in which one can learn to use the results of the observation process in the context of intervention.

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

The objective of this course is to communicate in the forms of discourse appropriate to one or more fields of study.
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
• Explicating an oral and a written discourse

The objective of this course is to apply a critical thought process to ethical issues relevant to the field of study.
Competencies to be developed include:

• Situating significant ethical issues, in appropriate world views and fields of knowledge
• explaining the major ideas, values and social implications of ethical issues
• organizing the ethical questions and their implications into coherent patterns
• Debating the ethical issues

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This course contributes to the development of the following competencies: To define the educational approach to be taken with children (019C) and To design and review the educational program (019K).

This course enables students to better understand the reality of children with disabilities and/or significant and persistent limitations which leads to obstacles to its integration into a child care service. The student will be encouraged to reinvest his skills by experimenting with the process of educational activity so as to promote the integration of children with special needs in a child care environment. This course also enables students to become more aware of the reality of the parent whose child copes with a specific problem and involve them in the integration process.

This course allows students to practice designing an integration plan of a child with a special need in a child care service.

The course Educational activity in complex situations, Collaboration with parents and resource persons and Training Course 3 represent places of integration and transfer of learning from this course to different age groups and in different contexts of care.

This course is in relation with the course Emotional, social and moral development of children and the Communication and teamwork course.

The last part of the course on professional ethics is linked with the philosophy course of Ethical reflection area of the care giving relationship.

The course Educational activity in complex situations, Collaboration with parents and resource persons and Comprehensive seminar as well as Integration Course represent places of integration and transfer of learning.

The final stage represents an ideal setting of integration, synthesis and transfer of all the knowledge and skills gained during the training program. The course Synthesis Seminar particularly complements the stage.

While being aware of social issues related to the profession of teacher to children, the student will be motivated, within this course, to take stock of the knowledge he has acquired throughout his training and reinvest the learning he has achieved to face creatively, appropriately and ethically all complex professional situations which he will encounter in the course of his new profession and this, by mobilizing the necessary resources.

The pedagogical challenge of this course is to motivate the student to be more aware of what he knows and how he applies it in a real context. Therefore throughout the course the student will be motivated to place himself, that is face himself, his training, his training environment and the educational project he has carried out in the Pedagogical Approaches and educational program course.

Because the educator-parents relationship has a direct influence on the harmonious development of children in child care, this course enables the student to learn communication strategies and support for parenting skills that he can experiment in the final stage with the parents of the group of children. In addition, the course encourages students to make connections with the fifth principle of the educational program of child care services, namely: Collaboration between educational staff or those responsible for child care services and parents is essential to the harmonious development of the child.

This course is the ideal place for further education of the frames of reference related to intercultural relations in the child care services started in the course Analysis of the context of family and social life given in the fifth session. Twenty hours should be devoted to it.

In this course, students will reuse all knowledge of the study program relating to the various situations of collaboration with parents and resource persons. This course is based particularly on the knowledge related to the role and responsibilities of an educator, code of ethics, communication skills, teamwork and observation, study program of child care services, family as well as child development and special needs.