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A Blueprint for Supporting Emergent Bilinguals in Your Program: Roma Chumak-Horbatsch’s Linguistically Appropriate Practice
At one time or another, all child care professionals in Canada—whether in a newcomer-focused program or not—will likely look after non-English speaking children. Read MoreCare for Newcomer Children (CNC) Information Now Available!
The Care for Newcomer Children Requirements (CNCR) are available here in French and English. The CNC Guide is a brand new kind of tool that provides you with everything you need to understand the new requirements, what’s different, and what it means to you and your organization. To help, you can also review the CNC Orientation for Administrators or CNC Orientation for Caregivers from this years conference.
2012 CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS: Ontario Professional Development Conference for LINC Childminders
At the 2012 Conference, we asked attendees to get comfortable with change and embrace it as a sign of good things to come. Read More
Making Room for Diversity in Your Program: Q&A with Valerie Rhomberg
When you walk into a program that cares for newcomer children, it is common to see multiple cultures and languages represented in the physical child care environment, as well as through the people in it: the staff, the children and their families. Multiculturalism is supported and embraced in countless ways.
But what about diversity? Isn’t it just another word for multiculturalism?
Not necessarily, according to Valerie Rhomberg, Manager of Academic Programs at Mothercraft College and co-author of "The Affective Curriculum: Teaching the Anti-bias Approach to Young Children". Read More
Leaping the Learning Curve: Five HR Practices that Improve Child Care Administration
Your role as administrator is one of great responsibility—especially as it involves a program that cares for children. However, the human resource function, which can be a full time career in other industries, is usually just a part of the child care administrator’s workload. Finding the time to get up to speed, not to mention locate child care specific resources, on all the HR aspects of administration can be near impossible. Read MoreInformation on Care for Newcomer Children
The CIC Call for Proposals (CFP) references the new model of child care, Care for Newcomer Children (CNC). To supplement, here are documents to help understand the model and respond to budgetary questions. Highlights and Bulletin in French and English and Q & A available to download. During the CFP CMAS is unable to answer questions, please submit questions as per the CFP.
Six Reasons to Love Your Job!
If you work with immigrant children,1) You are leading the way in a growing professional field!
Canada welcomes 250,000 immigrants each year, including over 8,000 children and youth, speaking over 80 different languages. You work with these families each and every day. When there is a crisis in another part of the world, and refugee families arrive here in Canada, for many of them, you are their first contact!
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