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Early Childhood Care Education Dual Credit Programs

SD8 Kootenay Lake has partnered with regional colleges to offer an Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) dual credit program for high school students in grades 11 or 12. 

The programs are one semester each, and will provide students with graduation credits as well as credit toward an ECCE (Early Childhood Care and Education) program certificate. Students who complete the semester program will be eligible to become an ECE Assistant.

The program is offered at two campuses, the College of the Rockies (Spring Semester) and Selkirk College (Fall Semester).

SD8 Kootenay Lake pays for the tuition, textbooks, technology, and any transportation costs for the ECCE Dual Credit Program.

College of the Rockies

College of the Rockies offers a spring semester dual credit ECCE program.

Resource

  • Website (includes application and information)

Selkirk College

Selkirk College offers a fall semester dual credit ECCE Program at the Castlegar Campus.

Schedule

Full day on Tuesdays face to face at the Castlegar Campus

HSER 174 - Interpersonal Communications (gives students a course that can transfer to the other human services programs, and including Business Administration)

ECCE 188 - Planning with Young Children (this is the curriculum course with play-based and experiential learning; not as academic)

Online

ECCE 186 - Child Health and Safety (this is the course to give students the credential to work as an ECCE Assistant at a childcare centre)

Resources

Interested students should contact their high school counsellor for information.

Scholarships & Bursaries

For students interested in an ECCE (Early Child Care Education) program in the Kootenay region after graduation, please see the following bursary opportunity from the ECE Education Support Fund:

Since September 2018, the Early Childhood Educators of BC (ECEBC), in partnership with the Province of British Columbia, enhanced and expanded the ECE Bursary Program, now known as the ECE Education Support Fund (ECE ESF).

This program consists of two funding streams:

  1. The Early Childhood Education (ECE) Student Bursary Program; and
  2. The ECE Workforce Development Bursary Fund Program

These funding streams are designed to increase the number of students entering, re-establishing and graduating from recognized ECE post-secondary programs. For a list of post-secondary education ECE programs recognized by the Early Childhood Educator (ECE) Registry, please click here.

Bursary Information: https://www.ecebc.ca/bursaries-grants/ece-education-support-fund 

ECE Registry

For students who are on the certification pathway to ECCE, apply or manage your certification to work in a child care facility in BC (click here).

Applications & Information:

 

Introduction to Business (Dual Credit) Selkirk College

Develop a business plan based on your own idea or an existing business. Introduction to Business introduces students to the management and operation of business, including the principles, concepts, ideas and tools used by managers. It exposes students to international and local business issues, and to large companies as well as to smaller, entrepreneurial firms.

This course also introduces students to career exploration and preparation.