Diploma in Early Childhood Education

Humber Polytechnic

Humber’s Early Childhood Education (ECE) diploma program prepares you to work with children (birth to 12 years) and their families. Students can expect to attain and exceed the practice-ready knowledge, skills and attitudes employers are seeking from ECE graduates in supporting children, families and the community by engaging in innovative learning and simulation experiences. These experiences take place within Humber's Carol Reid Early Childhood Education Lab, the Carol Reid Innovation Centre, as well as within the Humber Child Development Centre - interacting with our scenic arboretum and nature-inspired playground and exploring responsive, inclusive teaching methods and leading edge-curriculum. You will learn about: how children learn how Ministry and government legislation and guidelines inform practice how to create responsive, inclusive play-based learning environments and natural play spaces for children, families and the community human development using a wide range of worldview perspectives Two-Eyed Seeing, and the weaving of Indigenous and non-Indigenous ways of being, seeing, knowing and doing observation and reflection, and the co-preparation of pedagogical documentation by children, families and the community social justice, advocacy, leadership and the role of the ECE professional the image of the child and the significance of viewing children from a wide variety of lenses the importance of collaborating with relevant community agencies the importance of responsive relationships the relevance and importance of land-based outdoor play and learning to overall health and well-being

Faculty of Health Sciences and Wellness