Field Placement: Preparation for Teaching Practice

REQUIREMENTS:

EARL62 (Field Observation), CASE64, CASE66, CASE74, CASE76 (Teaching Practices) are each 126 hours. EARL78 (Professional Role and Development) must be taken concurrently with CASE76.

CREDIT TRANSFER AND PRIOR LEARNING ASSESSMENT AND REVIEW:

If you have teaching practice credits in ECE or other related fields that you wish to have considered for credit transfer, please contact the secretary at x3125 for information.

If you have ECE work experience and wish to have it considered for Prior Learning Assessment, please contact the PLAR counselor at x3125.

CASE74 and CASE76 are not eligible for Prior Learning Assessment and Review.

COURSE PREREQUISITES:

Part Time Program:
The following course prerequisites must be in place before registering forEARL62: CHIL11, EARL23, EARL27, CHIL1004, CHIL1005, EARL1, EARL35, HEAL200.
All of the academic ECE courses in all groups must be completed before commencing the teaching practices (CASE 64-76). In the distance education ECE program, teaching practice is seen as a consolidation of learning. The student must successfully complete each field placement in order, before beginning the next.

Full Time Program: Placements are in Semester 3,4,5.

TEACHING PRACTICE SETTINGS:

Agencies: Teaching practice must be taken in a provincially licensed center and approved by the faculty instructor. Other agencies, such as schools, will be considered on an individual basis.

Supervision: Students are to be directly supervised by a qualified ECE graduate or equivalent. The Director of the center will oversee this daily supervision.

Ages: Students will work with children from infants through school-age depending on their placement requirements.

Work Centers: Students are required to do their teaching practice in licensed centers where they are not employed. However, individual circumstances can be reviewed with the faculty.

Hours: A working day is 7 hours contact with children excluding lunch and breaks. Students are expected to follow the schedule of their cooperating teacher. Changes to hours must be agreed to by the center and the faculty instructor. Time lost due to illness or other circumstances can't be made up by lengthening the hours in a day. Additional days will be added on to the placement in order to attain the required number of practice hours.

SETTING UP TEACHING PRACTICE

The following steps must be completed before teaching practice can begin.

1. Check to see that all of the course prerequisites are successfully completed.

2. Contact the faculty instructor at least two months prior to commencing teaching practice in order to discuss with her the various options available in your community.

3. Contact the licensed agency where you wish to do your teaching practice. Arrange an interview with the Director and tour the facility.

4. Following this initial meeting, forward by mail, FAX or e-mail the following information to the faculty instructor:

- Name, complete address and telephone number of the agency
- Full name of the Director and cooperating teacher
- Agreed dates and shift hours for the field placement

5. Once this information is received, the faculty instructor will contact the agency.

6. Before the first day of field placement, the following documents must be on file with the faculty instructor:

A. Medical information: up-to-date immunizations (Hepatitis B is not required by the college but is recommended for people working with children who might bite. A series of three shots is good for life. Contact your doctor or Public Health Unit for more information.). You also need a two step TB test.
B. Current First Aid and CPR (infant, child and adult)
C. College insurance form
D. Field placement policy form