Educational Assistant

Develop the skills and style mechanics needed to produce personal and office correspondence.

Learn about the components of the computer and keyboard, as well as the seating, posture, and hand positioning necessary for efficient keyboarding.

Students will increase key recognition and build confidence using the keyboard, while improving speed and accuracy.

Learn punctuation rules, commonly misspelled and confusing words, English grammar, and elements of effective writing style.

Explore how a child’s mind and body change with growth. You’ll also learn how physical growth influences intellectual and social development. You’ll discover the major milestones of normal development in children between the ages of three and young adulthood and find out how vision, hearing, coordination, and attention span influence learning readiness.

In this study unit, you’ll learn about the three of the most important skills a teacher aide can have: communication, planning, and teamwork. Regardless of whether you specialize at the elementary level, the senior high level, you’ll need to use all three of these skills to work.

In this study unit, you’ll discover just how important a healthy self-image is to a person’s happiness and ability to cope with life circumstances—both as a child and as an adult. You’ll learn that by fostering in children a sense of self-worth and self-respect, you enable each child to better fulfill his or her unique, individual potential.

In this study unit, you’ll discover more about the exciting process of learning. You’ll find out what experts know about how we learn. You’ll see how people learn through their five senses and through certain types of learning styles.

In this study unit, you’ll explore new issues concerning children based on your knowledge of child development and behavior. You’ll learn how the social environment affects a child’s development and behavior. You’ll explore children’s reactions to events in their lives such as divorce, custody, and homelessness. You’ll also learn to identify behaviors that may signal stress in children.

This study unit begins by exploring the history of abuse and showing how society and adults from ancient times to modern-day treated children. You’ll learn the types of abuse. And finally, you’ll learn how to be sensitive to the behavioral and physical signs that a child may suffer from abuse, and what to do should a child come to you for help.

First Aid /CPR (Level C) This course serves as an introduction to First Aid, concentrating on CPR skills, controlling bleeding, treating shock, and respiratory emergencies (this is a mandatory in-person training Certification Course).

Non Violent Crisis Intervention is a program designed to teach individuals how to deal with disruptive behavior in a non violent, non intrusive manner.

This course covers the basic concepts and most commonly used features and functions of Windows 10. The course will walk you through performing basic operations such as opening applications, using Help and shutting down the computer. Additionally, you will learn to set up user accounts, create and use custom keyboard shortcuts, personalize and organize the working space, and use the Action Centre. The course will also provide you with hands-on experience on how to connect, use and update devices, use File Explorer to manage files and folders, as well as navigate the internet using various browsers, including Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge.

In this course, students learn to create, navigate, and organize documents and use the help functions. They learn to edit and manipulate text, view and format documents, and use Word’s predefined functions. Students use the Find and Replace feature, use proofing and language tools, create, format and modify tables, work with hyperlinks and cross-references, and learn how to preview and print a document.

Intermediate Microsoft Word. Learn how to edit and add formatting and special characters, create envelopes and labels, perform mail merges, develop tables of contents and tables of figures, and more.

In this course, students learn to create and manage worksheets and workbook files; enter data and create basic formulas to perform calculations. They learn to edit and manipulate cell content, modify worksheet structure, view and format worksheets, and use Excel’s predefined functions. Students use the Find and Replace feature, use themes to format workbooks and practise preparing, previewing, and printing worksheets.

Intermediate Microsoft Excel. Learn how to create and format charts, name ranges, sort, filter, and consolidate data.

Beginner Microsoft Outlook. Learn how to manage email, contacts, scheduling and tasks in Microsoft Outlook.

This course teaches students the fundamentals of the Microsoft Access application. In this course, students examine database objects and learn to manage data in a database. They learn to sort and filter data, display and format data, and use simple queries to retrieve data. Students learn to create and modify databases and tables and work with simple forms and reports.

Beginner Microsoft PowerPoint. Students learn to create, manage, and save presentations. They will also learn to insert different things into PowerPoint and add transitions and animations to create dynamic presentations.

This course explores the various components of the Internet using Microsoft Internet Explorer. They learn how to customize the Internet Explorer browser, and examine the Web, e-mail, blogs, discussion groups, social media, chatting, multimedia and other web technologies.

This study unit looks at the basic philosophy that classroom management is essential to the learning process.

This study unit deals with the different teaching techniques that are used in the classroom. You’ll be able to apply the techniques presented in this study unit to almost any classroom situation, reading a story, helping with mathematics, conducting a discussion group, preparing the classroom environment, tutoring one-on-one, or supervising small groups with their studies.

In this study unit, you’ll explore your future role as a student supervisor, both within the classroom and outside it. You’ll learn about how a good supervisor relates to students and to coworkers. Furthermore, you’ll learn many practical techniques that you can use in different situations in the years to come.

In this study unit, you’ll learn about early childhood, and the types of schools that are available to children between three and eight years of age. You will learn that early childhood students have very special educational needs and how to meet those needs.

In this study unit, you’ll learn about working with special needs children. Children with physical or mental challenges — often learn very effectively in regular classrooms. The teacher aide is especially important in classrooms that have special needs students because these children may need more one on one attention.

One purpose of this study unit is to discuss the language barriers and other challenges that teachers, teacher vaides, and students may encounter when learning in a multicultural and diverse environment. Understanding, acceptance, and positive interactions are the building blocks of an antibiased education.