ACS - Early Childhood Education

The RAC Early Childhood Education (for Indigenous Candidates)* program is intended for First Nations, Inuit and Métis people who have practical experience as a child care worker or child care technician and who wish to have this experience recognized by obtaining an Attestation of College Studies (ACS).

The experience may have been acquired in public or private daycare centres, in family daycare services or in school daycare services within the community or elsewhere.

*Program available online and offered in English by Vanier College.

Competencies evaluated

The following are the 16 competencies in the Early Childhood Education ACS program.
- To observe children’s behaviour
- To assess a child’s needs with respect to their overall development
- To establish an affective relationship with children
- To provide support to a child
- To intervene with respect to the behaviour of a child or a group of children
- To communicate in the workplace
- To design activities promoting overall child development
- To organize educational activities
- To lead educational activities
- To function safely in the work environment
- To intervene with respect to a child’s health
- To promote good nutrition
- To analyze a child’s specific needs
- To establish a partnership with parents and resource persons
- To define the pedagogical model and approach to be applied in educational daycare services
- To examine the job functions of an educator

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