Early Childhood Education Apprenticeship Program

Program Code: SAC.CDAPP.CA

Program Control Number: 46057

The Early Childhood Education Apprenticeship Program (ECEAP) certification program provides students with knowledge of comprehensive human development during early childhood (birth-age eight years of age). Students will focus on understanding developmentally appropriate practice, effective teaching and learning strategies, their important role as an early childhood educator in a child's overall school readiness and success, and how to create and implement a high quality classroom environment for young children. The required service learning hours of the ECEAP 18-month program will support the students as they apply and transfer their learning in an early childhood classroom with young children and their families. The program is available for students enrolled in the Early Childhood Education Apprenticeship Program (ECEAP).

Learning Outcome(s):

1. Demonstrate skill and mastery of child development themes, theories, curriculum, and assessment strategies by applying knowledge and skills in a simulated/real early childhood setting or scenarios.
2. Develop a portfolio of developmentally appropriate curriculum, programming, and assessment strategies for early childhood students in the cognitive, psychosocial, and biosocial domains.