Courses

Welcome to the EYPRC Professional Learning

View this pre-recorded introductory session to learn more about the types of professional learning opportunities that will be available to you in the Early Years Professional Learning Hub, how to navigate the new learning hub, as well as to learn more about Brightspace, our new virtual platform for online learning.

Spotlighting Our Community

This category provides a space for child care and early learning educators, supervisors and programmes to share their stories, documentation, and reflections about their work in early learning.

Foundations of Early Learning

This category will offer professional learning opportunities designed to enhance your knowledge of foundational topics in early learning and care.

Leadership

The professional learning opportunities offered in this category are designed to support the life-long learning journey of leaders working within the childcare and early learning community.

Wellness and Well-being

This category will offer professional learning opportunities that strengthen our understanding of wellness and well-being as key components of our professional practice. These learning opportunities will explore how to support wellness and well-being within ourselves (My Wellness), and also for children and families within programmes (Children's Well-being).

Equity, Diversity and Social Justice

This category provides professional learning opportunities to come together to reflect on our thinking about social justice, perspective taking, anti-bias education and classroom culture.

Enhanced Support System

As part of the Special Needs Resourcing mandate, the County of Wellington's Enhanced Support System provides supports to ensure children with medical conditions, special needs and/or developmental delays are able to fully participate in Child Care programmes.

Pedagogy in Practice

A focus in child care and early learning settings is to support pedagogical practices guided by How Does Learning Happen? Ontario’s Pedagogy for the Early Years. This category will provide professional learning opportunities to think about pedagogy and our daily practices.

Network Connections

This category will provide opportunities to bring together like-minded early learning professionals to share their professional knowledge and experiences empowering curiosity and fostering a culture of reflection in our community.

Tools for Learning

Tools for Learning provides professionals with opportunities to self-reflect, explore your work in child care and early learning, capture your learning, and develop and maintain a digital portfolio you can use throughout your career.

Reaching IN... Reaching OUTᴼᴹ

Reaching IN...Reaching OUTᴼᴹ (RIRO) Resiliency Skills Training Programme provides service providers working in early learning, child care, community/mental health and other settings with the knowledge and skills they need to model and teach resilience approaches to young children, from birth to eight years of age.

Health and Safety

This category will offer professional learning opportunities that support health and safety practices in child care and early learning programmes. These learning opportunities include Standard First Aid/CPR/AED training and offerings from Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health.