Innovative professional learning

EECD supports the delivery of this micro-credentialing program designed by the New Brunswick Community College (NBCC) and the Collège Communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick (CCNB). In addition, funding is available to support registered educators with tuition fees and learning materials. This program, which takes 6 to 8 months to complete, includes:

• Onsite training to obtain the one-year college certificate; and
• The opportunity for educators to gain experience in child care centres while practising and demonstrating the skills learned in theoretical training modules.

Note: To be eligible for this program, educators must:

• Be currently employed and working with children under the age of five in a licensed early learning and child care facility;
  
• Have worked at least three years with children under the age of five in a licensed early learning and child care facility; and
• Have completed the “Introduction to Early Childhood Education” course (90 hours, online).

For more information or to apply, please visit New Brunswick Community College or Collège Communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick.

What we have accomplished in 2021-2022

• 75 francophone educators are presently active in the experiential program at CCNB
• 150 anglophone educators are presently active in the micro-credentialing Program at NBCC

What is to come in 2022-2023

• 30 seats are available for eligible francophone educators to start this program in September 2022 at CCNB
• 90 seats are available for eligible anglophone educators to start the micro-credentialing program in June 2022 at NBCC

EECD supported the delivery of the Integrated Work-Study Program designed by the New Brunswick Community College (NBCC) and the Collège Communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick (CCNB). In addition, EECD offered funding to support registered educators with tuition fees and learning materials. This program, which takes 2 years to complete, included opportunities for:

• Two new educators from the same designated centre to complete their one-year college training while continuing to work;
• Two educators to alternate their time: a block of online training at home, in the facility or at college and then a block of work; and
• Educators to apply their learnings and build their competencies throughout their training.

What we have accomplished in 2021-2022

• 28 francophone educators are active in this program at CCNB
• 46 anglophone educators are active in this program at NBCC

What is to come in 2022-2023

• Continue to support the cohort expected to graduate in June 2023

As this is a training requirement, EECD has invested in recruiting additional instructors to support more educators in completing the 90-hour, online course.

Educators presently working with children aged 5 and under in licensed early learning and child care facilities can get more information on this course by contacting your facility’s Quality Assurance Monitor

What we have accomplished in 2021-2022

• Since June 2021, 187 francophone educators have completed the 90-hour online course “Introduction à l’éducation à la petite enfance”
• Since June 2021, 232 anglophone educators have completed the 90-hour online course “Introduction to Early Childhood Development”

What is to come in 2022-2023

• One cohort of 100 francophone educators will begin in May 2022, with another scheduled for the fall of 2022
• One cohort of 300 anglophone educators will begin in July 2022, with another scheduled for the winter of 2023