Program Learning Outcomes

Graduates have demonstrated the ability to:

• Plan curriculum that is based on a thorough understanding of child development.
• Plan and implement individual programs and curriculum to meet the developmental needs of children.
• Utilize a variety of observation techniques to enhance work with children, families, and co-workers.
• Maintain responsive relationships with individual children and groups of children.
• Establish and maintain safe and healthy environments which best meet the requirements of current legislation, regulatory bodies, and program policies.
• Develop and maintain effective written, oral, non-verbal, and electronic communications with children, families, co-workers, employers, and individuals/agencies.
• Apply relevant legislation, policies, procedures, and regulations to early childhood education programs and settings in a changing social context.
• Apply a personal philosophy of early childhood education within the framework of ethical and professional standards.
• Act in a manner consistent with principles of fairness, equity, and diversity to support the Development and learning of individual children, within the context of his/her family, culture, and society.

Distinctive Benefits for Centennial College Students

• Smaller class sizes
• Hands-on approach to learning
• Opportunity to observe “best practices” in our child care centres
• Supportive faculty

Educational Partners

Each year between 10 and 33 per cent of program graduates go on to study in Centennial’s two-year Early Childhood Education (ECE) program. Many of these students are exempt from some ECE courses as a result of attaining a high level of success in the ECA program.  ECA graduates who have successfully completed the ECE program have also been accepted into Ryerson University or York University.