In exploring the many organizations within my area, I found several that were of interest to me.
The
College of Early Childhood Educators (www.collegeofece.on.ca).
To use the title of early childhood educator, individuals in the province of Ontario must register with the College of ECEs. The College is made of up of 14 elected members and 10 public members (College of ECEs, 2011). The College confirms the professional status of early childhood educators (College of ECEs, 2011). Unfortunately, there are no job opportunities available at this time. Recently, the College of ECEs created the “Standards of Practice” document, a first of its kind in Canada (College of ECEs, 2011). Individuals who are interested in policies, assessment of internationally trained early childhood educators to name a few would be able to pursue a career within the College of ECEs. If there were opportunities within the College of ECEs, I would be most interested in pursuing the assessment of internationally trained early childhood educators. I would love to learn about other countries early childhood education standards.
The Ontario Reggio Association (www.ontarioreggioassociation.ca).
St. Lawrence College (http://www.stlawrencecollege.ca) is one example of a community college in Ontario,
however; there are 24 Community Colleges that offer an early childhood
education program. Currently, St. Lawrence College is seeking part time
teachers who are interested in teaching and field placement supervision.
To work at St. Lawrence, you must have at least 5 years’ experience in licensed
child care, an early childhood education diploma and related degree as well as
post-secondary teaching experience. It is interesting
to read the job posting at St. Lawrence as this is where I earned my early
childhood education diploma and worked for 10 years in the early learning
center. Teaching involves much more than the outlined criteria.
Additional skills involve communication, presentation skills, knowledge of how
adults learn, organizational skills, problem solving, ability to work
with others, collaboration skills to name a few. Teaching is a
passion of mine.
The Association
for Early Childhood Educators (AECEO) ( http://www.aeceo.ca/)
(provincial)
Ottawa
Valley Branch (http://www.aeceo.ca/Branches/OVB/default.htm)(local)
Tamara:
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing the websites. I like having websites in my resources that offer opportunities to attend workshops, or some kind of training. I feel it is important to keep learning and gaining experiences. I think everyone should also at least understand what the different approaches are before they can decide which approach they feel best suits their teaching style. Such as the Reggio approach.
Conferences are great to keep abreast of the changing trends and issues that are being faced at higher levels and how they affect us as educators.
Tamara,
ReplyDeleteThank you, you have given me more examples to help me find more local communities of practice. I especially was interested in the CECE. I am also interested in how international educators are trained. I have discussed how we receive teacher training with my international colleagues, and the programs have different focuses such as research-based, or hands-on based. Some programs were longer than others, and had different required courses. However, these were not early childhood trained teachers, so to specifically learn how ECE teachers are trained in different countries would be interesting.
Tamara,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading your post and the one that really caught my attention was the post on Reggio Emillia because this is a practice that is highly uncommon in my current city. I find it extremely interesting and reading the website I have gain a better understanding of the concept. Great job with the post, it was very enjoyable.
Tamara
ReplyDeleteThe College of Early Childhood Educators sounds like something we should do here in the United States. The job training international Early Childhood Educators does sound very interesting. In one of my other classes in this program, we did some researching of other countries' ECE programs and It was interesting. It would be great to be able to implement some of the things they do with their children here with our children. Thanks for your post.
Tamara,
ReplyDeleteThank you for the wealth of information of those three websites. I bookmarked each of them for future reference. I could only hope to one day work with an organization like those. From what it looks like, I'll have to have quite the resume to get involved but it would be worth it. Right now I am struggling to even get my foot into the door of my local school system (hence why I am getting this degree) but one day I am determined to look back and say that I was a member/employee of at least one of the major national advocacy organizations. Best of luck to you, Tamara! Thanks for getting me fired up! :)