Glossary

Affordable Child Care Benefit (ACCB) is a monthly payment to help eligible families with the cost of child care. Factors like income, family size, and type of care determine how much support families can get. 

More information about the ACCB can be found on the Government of BC's ACCB page of their website. 

As defined by Manitoba's Early Learning and Child Care Curriculum (ELCC) Framework for preschool centres and nursery Schools, "Curriculum refers to how you organize opportunities for children to learn throughout the day" (p. 2), and further that Curriculum "is the way you design interactions, relationships, environments and experiences to create learning opportunities. It describes your intention to support children’s learning and development" (p. 2). 

Early Returns: Manitoba’s ELCC Curriculum Framework was developed by the Manitoba Child Care Program in consultation with Healthy Child Manitoba, Manitoba Education,  the Manitoba Child Care Association, Red River College, Assiniboine Community College and Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface. 

"Early childhood educators (ECEs) work with young children from birth to age five. They create and run educational programs that fuel children’s intellectual, physical, social and emotional growth" (WorkBC, para. 1). 

Reference

WorkBC (n.d.). Early Childhood Educators and Assistants.  https://www.workbc.ca/career-profiles/early-childhood-educators-and-assistants

"The process whereby people gain knowledge, acquire understanding, master skills or internalize values" (Peters et al., 2015).

Reference

Peters, F., Patterson, R., & Kach, N. (2015). Education in Canada. The Canadian Encyclopedia. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/education

Statements indicating knowledge, skills, and attitudes ECE practitioner participants will develop after completing all activities in this OER Moodle site. 

"Teaching, learning, and research materials that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others" (Creative Commons, n.d., para 1). 

Reference

Creative Commons (n.d.). What is OER?  https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/What_is_OER%3F

According to the Government of BC (2023), ECE professional developmentis that which enhances the quality of care and education provided to young children.

When creating a professional development plan, educators are encouraged to reflect on and evaluate their professional practice and choose topics that will:

• Increase their knowledge in the area of early childhood education
• Help them stay current and improve their practice as an educator
• Help them meet the needs of the children in their care, children’s families, and the communities where they work

Reference

Government of BC (2023). Early Childhood Education profession in B.C. Professional Development. https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/education-training/early-learning/teach/training-and-professional-development/become-an-early-childhood-educator/ece-profession#resources

Reflexivity (noun) 

"The fact of someone being able to examine their own feelings, reactions, and motives (= reasons for acting) and how these influence what they do or think in a situation" (Cambridge University Press, n.d.). 

Reference

Cambridge University Press. (n.d.). Upcycling. In Cambridge Dictionary. Retrieved April 8, 2020 from https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/upcycling

"A methodology that uses the inherent human capacity for imagining futures to better understand the present situation and to identify possibilities for new strategies" (Ramírez & Wilkinson, 2016, p. 1)

Reference

Ramírez, R., & Wilkinson, A. (2016). Strategic Reframing: The Oxford Scenario Planning Approach. Oxford University Press.