UCFV offers an Early Childhood Education program that meets licensing requirements of the Provincial Licensing Board. The program is based on the provincial curriculum developed by the Ministry of Advanced Education, Training and Technology and adopted by Early Childhood Education training programs throughout the province as the minimum standard for educating adults to work with young children. If you choose a career in early childhood education, you will work with young children to enrich and support their intellectual, social, emotional, and physical development. This career offers the chance to fill a meaningful and fulfilling role in society. Early childhood education may involve working with children from infancy through 12 years of age in a variety of settings and programs.
Employment prospects Employment prospects are excellent in the early childhood fields.
Some of these centres are now used by the ECE program as field sites where students get practical training. Early Childhood Education graduates of UCFV have become an important part of the childcare community in the Fraser Valley. The early childhood field is expanding in B.C. and there is a shortage of graduates for the care of children under three. Lou Schroeder, ECE, MEd Elem.