The College of ECE is celebrating its 15th anniversary on February 14. In recognition of this milestone, we’d like to share the thoughts of two RECEs who were in the sector at the time early childhood education became a regulated profession and have since shared their time and expertise with …
September 2023 marks 15 years since the College of Early Childhood Educators (the College) began to take in applications from individuals in Ontario, to become Registered Early Childhood Educators (RECEs) – the only early learning professionals in Canada recognized as part of a self-regulating profession. Today, our membership numbers more …
On February 14, 2019, the College will celebrate its tenth anniversary. As we reflect on the last decade of regulating the profession, we are also looking forward to how the practice of early childhood education in Ontario will continue to grow and evolve. In a previous article, we discussed the …
Christine Forsyth has a perspective like no other when it comes to the College’s history. She chaired the transitional Council that set up the College over 18 months in 2007-08, and she has served for 10 years as a publicly appointed member of the College’s 24-member Council.
This past decade has seen tremendous shifts and growth in the early learning and child care sector, and RECEs have responded to these challenges of change. One of the first changes came with a move away from the provision of educator-led, theme-based learning activities to implementing a child-centred, play-based learning …
Looking back at the College’s past ten years, it all began when early childhood educators (ECEs) achieved their goal of professional recognition with the passage of the Early Childhood Educators Act, 2007 (the Act). The government recognized that ECEs interacted with children at a critical time in their development and …
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