Overview
The overall goal of the Education and Skill Development for EAs initiative is to provide consistent, quality learning options for education assistants across the province with a view to increasing the skills and building the capacity of education assistants working in the K-12 public school system.
The objectives include:
- To offer learning options in accordance with priorities stated by support staff members and school district representatives.
- To ensure options are presented in a high quality and consistent manner.
- To establish a system for school districts and locals to access funds and to facilitate the delivery of these learning initiatives at the local level.
- To work with post-secondary institutions for recognition of these learning options as credit towards EA certification at public post secondary institutions.
Given the diversity of needs, we have structured this initiative to allow districts and locals to select from a menu of options and in some cases, fashion their own solution.
