Course Overview
Course Overview
Learning outcomes (LOs) serve as a valuable resource to guide your learning journey and ensure you can maximize your learning experience. The primary purpose of this section is to communicate the intended learning outcomes of the Leadership Essentials of Governance, Finance, and HR Course.
By outlining these outcomes, you will have a roadmap of the knowledge, skills, and competencies you will acquire throughout the course. These outcomes are carefully crafted to align with the overall goals and objectives of the course, ensuring that you are equipped with the necessary tools to succeed.
The learning outcomes for this course align with the content, activities, and assessments you will encounter, enabling you to track your growth and identify improvement opportunities. Within each module's section, an overview is provided, including the respective LOs that are relevant to that module. You are encouraged to review the learning outcomes thoroughly and to refer to them throughout your learning journey to support your success in completing all provided activities and assessments.
Course Learning Outcomes
After completing all activities and assessments (32 total hours) in this open course, participants will:
- Examine different childcare governance and operational models, such as private ownership, board-run, not-for-profit, corporate, and family child care.
- Articulate the roles and responsibilities of key government regulatory bodies, including the Ministry of Education and Childcare, the ECE Registry, and Licensing authorities, and apply this knowledge to administrative operational processes in childcare settings.
- Identify aspects of budgeting and examine different funding processes and ministry funding agreements, including subsidies, wage enhancements, and other financial initiatives critical to early learning programs.
- Examine the administrative human resource responsibilities of employers related to record keeping, hiring, staff evaluations, B.C. labour laws, licensing staffing regulations and worksafe practices.