Petite enfance - Early Childhood Education

En septembre 2017, le CEGEP Champlain offira, pour une deuxième fois, une attestation d'études collégiales (AEC) en Petite enfance avec une emphase Première Nations.  Lors de la dernière cohorte, 16 étudiants ont obtenu un AEC en suivant des cours à Kahnawake. Les objectifs de ce programmes sont d'offrir les élèves les habilités nécessaires dans le domaine de l'informatique, les mathématiques, l'anglais et le français afin de préparer les élèves à entrer en formation dans l'AEC à Champlain Saint-Lambert et de développer les habilités nécessaires à travailler en petite enfance auprès de jeunes âgés entre 0 et 12 ans.
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Name of Program: Early Childhood Education
Start of prep program:  June, 2017
Duration of prep program: one year
Location of prep program: Kahnawake 
Start of AEC with Champlain College:  September 2017 (offered in Kahnawake)
To register: Kahnawake Regional Adult Education Center 450-635-6352 or email dlabelle@cdrhpnq.qc.ca


What makes this program special?
  1. Students who register for this program will receive a tablet in order to prepare to take a portion of the program online.
  2. The prep course will provide students with the tools they need to enter CEGEP.  
  3. The course work at Champlain College will focus on a holistic, First Nations' approach to early childhood education, and will be offered in Kahnawake.
  4. There will be an entrepreneurial aspect to the program allowing those who are so inclined, to own and operate their own daycare. 

Brief description:
In June 2016, Champlain College offered attestation of collegial studies in Early Childhood Education, and the plan is to offer another one in August 2017.
The goals of this program are twofold: to provide students with required skills in the areas of integrated computer software, mathematics, English and French, in order to prepare students to enter into an AEC in Early Childhood Education at Champlain College Saint-Lambert, and to enable a person to develop the required skills to work as an Early Childhood Educator of children from 0 to 12 years of age.

Admission Requirements for the Preparatory Course:
  1. Students must be of First Nations heritage.
  2. Students must have completed Secondary IV (grade 10)* high school, or have received instruction deemed sufficient by the Kahnawake FNRAEC.
  3. Students must be interested in becoming more proficient in French and English, particularly in their oral communication skills and reading comprehension.
  4. Applicants are required to take Math, English and French entrance exams.
  5. Prospective candidates must complete an employment and training evaluation from Tewatohnihsak’tha (or their local Employment and Training Office), and will be interviewed prior to admission to the program to verify their qualifications, aptitude and attitude.
*Because the courses are all at Sec IV-V level of instruction, students may be able to complete missing credits for graduate with a DES from the Québec education system.

We are pleased to announce that Champlain College Saint-Lambert is waiving registration and tuition fees for this program!

In addition, courses will be offered in Kahnawake! YES! Cegep level courses offered in the community of Kahnawake!

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