Path to Employment
Specialized Language Training for Childcare 
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  • •Are you interested in working in childcare but you need to improve your language skills first?
  • •Do you want to see how your skills and experience measure up to what’s expected in childcare work in Ontario?
  • Would you like to have a learning path to reach your goal? 
Is one of these occupations for you?
  • Home daycare provider
  • Early childcare assistant
  • Early childcare educator
The right learning path
  • Build on your previous childcare experience
  • Identify the learning path that will lead you to your goal
Your learning path will depend on any international training in the field of childcare, other education, work experience and language level. 
An applicant may be interested in providing home day care but needs to improve her language skills to communicate with children, parents and licensing bodies.
An applicant may need to improve her language skills before admission to a bridging program.
An applicant who is very interested in a career in childcare may want to improve her language skills before moving on to further education.
Many participants will want to know how best to succeed in the different kinds of assessment, examinations, and tests they will face as they move towards their goals.
A partnership with a professional association will ensure that the curriculum is relevant to learners’ goals.

Language and childcare

Improve your language skills so you can get the job you want in childcare

  • Reading and following safety rules
  • Working with others
  • Taking and leaving phone messages
  • Maintaining standards
  • Filling in forms and reports
  • Problem solving
  • Writing notes to parents
The examples of language tasks that appear in this slide are the kinds of things that are identified as essential skills in childcare occupations. The curriculum will help learners improve their language skills so they can perform these kinds of tasks.

Which schedule works best for you?

  • •Daytime classes  - 12.5 hours per week
  • •Evening classes - 5 hours per week
  • •Weekend classes - 5 hours per week
Daytime classes will run for 16 weeks. There will be 200 hours of class instruction. The first course will run from September till December 2007.
Evening classes will take place twice a week for 2 ½ hours each evening for 40 weeks from September 2007 till July 2008. There will be 200 hours of instruction.
Weekend classes will take place on Saturday for 5 hours. There will be 200 hours of instruction over 40 weeks, from September till July 2008.

Ready to get started?

  • Call 416-397-6219 to schedule a language assessment
  • Classes start September 2007

    Canadian Language Benchmarks Placement Test (CLBPT) assessments will take place in July and August. Part of the assessment will include a Prior Learning Assessment (PLA). You will be asked to bring your documents to the interview.
Specialized Language Training for Home Health Care
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  • •Are you working in home health care but you need to improve your language skills to do your job better or to advance to other jobs?
  • Do you want to see how your skills and experience measure up to what’s expected in home health care work in Ontario?
  • Would you like to have a learning path to reach your goal? 
Are you working in one of these jobs?
  • Cleaner
  • Home support worker
  • Personal support worker

The right learning path

  • Build on your home health care experience
  • Identify the learning path that will lead you to your goal
Depending on your work experience and language level, you will have different goals and will approach them in different ways.
An applicant who is certified by a Personal Support Worker program but whose language skills are not yet at the appropriate level to feel completely comfortable with clients will be focused on obtaining the language skills required to succeed in their work.
An applicant who has not previously achieved certification but is interested in working in a higher level job will want to improve language skills so s/he communicates better with other staff and clients and can gain admission to further education.
Many participants will want to know how best to succeed in the different kinds of assessment, examinations, and tests they will face as they move towards their goals.
A partnership with employers will ensure that the curriculum is relevant to learners’ goals.

Language and home health care
Improve your language skills for work
  • •Reading and following safety rules
  • Talking to clients
  • Taking and leaving phone messages
  • Maintaining standards
  • Filling in forms
  • Problem solving
  • Working with others
The examples of language tasks that appear in this slide are the kinds of things that are identified as essential skills in home health care occupations.  The curriculum will help learners improve their language skills so they can perform these kinds of tasks.
 
Which schedule works best for you?
  • •Evening classes - 4 hours per week
  • •Weekend classes - 4 hours per week
Most participants in these courses will already be working. There will be 100 hours of class instruction. The courses will run from September 2007 till April 2008.
•  Evening classes will take place twice a week for 2 hours each evening
•  Weekend classes will take place on Saturday for 4 hours.

Ready to get started?
  • Call 416-397-6219 to schedule a language assessment
  • Classes start September 2007
     
    Canadian Language Benchmarks Placement Test (CLBPT) assessments will take place in July and August.  Part of the assessment will include a Prior Learning Assessment (PLA).