College Boreal -- seamless daycare garners attention.As provincial and federal governments begin to focus increasingly on the subject of daycare, College Boreal's early childhood educator  This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject.Please help recruit one or [ improve this article] yourself. See the talk page for details. program is garnering more and more student attention. "Federally and provincially, there's more emphasis being put on early childhood education, where they call it 'seamless childcare'," says Laurie Laurie long in love with Jo March, he begs her to marry him and is rejected. [Am. Lit.: Louisa May Alcott Little Women] See : Love, Spurned Rancourt, vice-president vice president or vice-pres·i·dent n. Abbr. VP 1. An officer ranking next below a president, usually empowered to assume the president's duties under conditions such as absence, illness, or death. 2. of academics, College Boreal bo·re·al adj. 1. Of or relating to the north; northern. 2. Of or concerning the north wind. 3. Boreal . "The push is to increase the number of quality day cares, and to develop a better transition from the daycare to the primary school, so there's a lot of demand for workers right now. With a couple of new day cares that are going to be opening and school boards that are involved in daycare, there really are a lot of jobs for early childhood educators." Considered one of the college's core programs since the school's inception in 1995, Boreal's early childhood education program has been expanded province-wide in recent years to help meet this rising demand. The program is now offered throughout two-thirds of the province via the college's seven campuses in Northern Ontario Northern Ontario is the part of the province of Ontario which lies north of Lake Huron (including Georgian Bay), the French River and Lake Nipissing. Northern Ontario has a land area of 802,000 km² (310,000 mi²) and constitutes 87% of the land area of Ontario, although it and Toronto. Rancourt says this effectively provides a strong, varied offering to the broadest possible base of francophone students. Currently, 90 students are enrolled in the program province-wide, 36 of which are slated to graduate this year. In order to accommodate students far from the school's main Sudbury campus, Boreal uses multiple methods to deliver its early childhood education. These include a combination of face-to-face classes, videoconferencing A real time video session between two or more users or between two or more locations. Although the first videoconferencing was done with traditional analog TV and satellites, inhouse room systems became popular in the early 1980s after Compression Labs pioneered digitized video systems and online classes, which allow students to remain in their communities, Rancourt says. "Because there's a strong, generalized gen·er·al·ized adj. 1. Involving an entire organ, as when an epileptic seizure involves all parts of the brain. 2. Not specifically adapted to a particular environment or function; not specialized. 3. need for early childhood education graduates throughout Northern Ontario, having students learn and stay in their community is just as important for them as it is for us. So it's not just meeting focused needs of industry, but it's also meeting the needs of the community, which is very key." Due to the broad and growing need for early childhood education workers, the school's ability to produce bilingual bi·lin·gual adj. 1. a. Using or able to use two languages, especially with equal or nearly equal fluency. b. graduates is a crucial selling point selling point n. An aspect of a product or service that is stressed in advertising or marketing. Noun 1. selling point - a characteristic of something that is up for sale that makes it attractive to potential customers , both for prospective students as well as employers. "It's absolutely important to have people who can work in both languages because you want children to start off in a francophone daycare and then make a good transition into a francophone primary school," Rancourt says. "Given that they're coming from francophone families, you want them to be in a franco-dominant setting right at the beginning of their educational career." Upon graduating, students have the opportunity to find work with children up to the age of 12 in a variety of fields, including preschools, daycare centers, parent resource centers and grade school recreation programs. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As part of the program's curriculum, Boreal provides students a practical education in child care as well as a more theoretical education in such areas as psychology and sociology. This varied approach helps students to meet industry requirements while providing them with an education, which expands their career opportunities. "Even though they're coming to us to train for work in a specific profession, we want to make sure they have a broad level of knowledge, so it enhances their practical employability and makes them more prepared to find different types of work, if they so choose. It's a very comprehensive, very solid program, and it's ensuring we're not just meeting the needs of students, but we're also meeting the needs of industry." www.borealc.on.ca QUICK FACTS College Boreal Sudbury Student population: 8800 President: Denis Denis, king of Portugal: see Diniz. Hubert Established: 1995 By NICK STEWART Northern Ontario Business Northern Ontario Business is a Canadian magazine, which publishes monthly in Greater Sudbury, Ontario. The magazine covers business news and issues in Northern Ontario. |
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