Indigenous

Early Learning Child Care online Program

Get your Level 2 Early Childhood Educator Certificate which originally takes one-year to complete in just 32-weeks online!

Offered to all Indigenous community members residing in the rural Wood Buffalo region. 

This program will provide students with: 

  • Level 2 Early Childhood Educator Certificate (Level 1 NOT needed to take level 2)

  • Skills to support exploration through play 

  • Skills to observe and properly document a child’s learning and behaviour 

  • Skills to foster creativity by actively engaging children in meaningful exploration 

  • Skills to create vibrant environments for children in a variety of child care settings 

To be an eligible participant in this program you must: 

  • Be a First Nation, Indigenous, Inuit, or Métis person residing within the rural Wood Buffalo region

  • A Criminal Record Check and Vulnerable Sector Check will be required of all participants 

  • Complete an Accuplacer Test 

After completion of this course, graduates are able to be employed as Early Childhood Educators in daycares, preschools or out of school care programs, Day home providers, Infant Child Development Workers and Family Resource Centre Workers. 

If you are interested in this program or have any questions, please contact:

Natalie Cunningham

Employment & Training Project Coordinator

780-598-3590

Natalie.Cunningham@atcfn.ca