You will learn how to recognise basic introductory skills in ECE and knowledge involved in the education and care of infants, toddlers, and young children.
If you are interested in working with infants, toddlers or young children this certificate may be right for you. You will learn how to recognise basic introductory skills in ECE and knowledge involved in the education and care of infants, toddlers, and young children.
The NZ Certificate in Early Childhood Education and Care helps students to develop a strong foundational grounding in essential early childhood knowledge. This certificate is perfectly suited to school leavers or students looking to complete their NCEA levels while gaining skills towards a career qualification.
Throughout the Course, you will complete a minimum of 60 hours of placement time in an early childhood centre, giving you a real hands-on experience that will prepare you for a career in early childhood education.
Vision College offers small class sizes, and supportive staff, which creates a personal and productive learning environment. Graduates can progress onto the Level 5 programme, or go into work in an Early Childhood Centre under the supervision of a registered teacher. Or, many choose to work as an Au Pair or nanny overseas.
Vision College provides a wide range of educational opportunities with a number of campuses across New Zealand. Our mission ‘Changing lives through learning’ is what drives us to be among the best educational providers in New Zealand, offering programmes and services that make a real difference in the lives of our learners.
Our Values:
God Honouring
Firstly, honouring God and then others – staff, students, stakeholders, and others we connect with.
Innovative
The ability, capacity to look for and see new and fresh ways of doing and approaching things, to improve outcomes and opportunities for others. This may be in small or big ways.
Relational
Placing value on connection with people, over things. The essence of walking long term with people, iwi, organisations even through struggles.
Purposeful
Being focused and determined to reach a desired and shared outcome.
Key Strategic Elements:
To Create and deliver outstanding learning experiences for students
Championing the best in one another – our staff team
To build significant stakeholder/industry relationships and connections
Academic integrity and Business excellence
Our approach is holistic, developing the whole person to enable our graduates to be effective leaders in both their employment and personal lives. We aim for excellence not only in providing qualifications, but in developing individuals.
Who We Are
Vision College is a charitable company born out of a desire to invest into the future of New Zealand and the world by growing people. Since 1984, thousands of people have benefitted from the dedication of our staff and their support for learners of all ages and backgrounds.
Our staff enjoy the challenge and satisfaction of this mission, seeing changed lives and people growing toward their full potential.
Our students are made up of both New Zealanders and a wide range of international people, making a rich cultural environment across our campuses and equipping people for life!
Around 90% of NZ Secondary Schools use resources developed by our division Instant Education Solutions, and our dedicated team of writers are on a continuous path of improving an already excellent range of products based on customer feedback and changing government requirements.
Whether you are looking for potential courses as part of your future career, or simply wanting to know more about who Activate Training Centre Limited is, you should be able to find all the key information on one of our websites.
What We Do
Vision College offers a variety of programmes across multiple campuses. You can study from Level 1 Certificates through to Level 7 Degrees.
Vision College has 6 Schools incorporating the following areas of study:
Counselling
Early Childhood
Information Technology
Christian Ministry
Ultimate
Trades - Agriculture
We also offer other non-qualification programmes - ESOL, Quickstart.
All of our programmes are NZQA approved and, where applicable, eligible for students to apply for loans and allowances.
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