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The Carol Reid Early Childhood Education Lab is a creative classroom designed for hands-on, collaborative learning experiences.
The Carol Reid Early Childhood Education Resource Centre is a place where ECE students can access resources, ideas, and support to create experiences for the children in their field placement settings.
Carol Reid Innovation Centre is a simulation lab that offers hands-on opportunities for ECE students to collaborate, innovate, and explore.
Child Development Centre a Humber operation where you can find high-quality, non-profit, community-based child care.
Students in Humber’s Early Childhood Education program have the advantage of experiencing hands-on learning in the Carol Reid Early Childhood Education Lab. Named for Carol Reid, a professor in the Early Childhood Education program from 1989 to 2014, the lab, which opened in January, 2018, is a creative classroom designed for hands-on, collaborative learning experiences. Carol's passions included a focus on the child as an active and engaged learner. She believed the active child is one who is provided an environment rich in discovery, challenge, and wonder. Stocked with an abundance of educational materials, including natural objects and loose parts, the lab allows students to develop their curiosity and creativity as they explore the possibilities for engaging children’s imaginations and contributing to their development.
“Through all that happens in the lab, students share, collaborate, and have a greater opportunity to be creative and support each other,” says Pina Leo, the ECE Lab and Resource Centre Facilitator. “It is where real cooperation and collegiality happen!"
In 1990, Carol Reid, a Professor in the Early Childhood Education Program, established a Resource Centre where ECE students could access resources, ideas, and support to create experiences for the children in their field placement settings. After her retirement in 2014, Carol’s colleagues and friends have kept her legacy alive, and today the Carol Reid ECE Resource Centre provides ECE students with a wealth of materials – books, toys, puppets, natural materials, and loose parts – as well as creative suggestions for their use.
The Centre is also a hub for ECE students to meet, exchange ideas, and problem-solve. The staff, including student volunteers, provide suggestions and direct students to materials that are appropriate to nurture and stimulate development of the children they are interacting with. Students can choose from activities and materials for children ranging in age from infants to school-age.
The Carol Reid Innovation Centre is a simulation lab within the Early Childhood Education program that offers hands-on opportunities for students to collaborate, innovate, and explore, as well as demonstrate their knowledge and skills. The physical environment can be configured in countless ways to support students as they build career-ready skills through practical experiences.
Stocked with furniture and materials commonly found in daycares and other early childhood education settings, the Innovation Centre provides Humber's ECE students with unique opportunities to set up environments and experiences tailored to various children's ages, needs, and interests.
Located adjacent to the Humber Child Development Centre, Humber Polytechnic's lab school, the Innovation Centre allows students to observe how children interact with these environments and experiences, emphasizing the importance of engaging children's imaginations in their development.
Yes - outdoor classrooms! Humber North Campus has the beautiful Humber Arboretum just steps away. The Humber Arboretum consists of nearly 250 acres of public gardens and natural areas located in the Humber River watershed in North Etobicoke and exists as a unique tri-partnership between Humber College, the City of Toronto, and the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA).
These outdoor classrooms are hubs of innovative teaching and learning experiences. Humber has won international awards and recognition for innovations in outdoor learning and play. Frequently utilized by the Early Childhood Education program, these areas are open to any program who simply wants to take it outside.
A staff member shows a picture book to two children in Humber’s Child Development Centre.
ECE students checking out small natural materials.
ECE students deciding which books they might take to their placement setting.
ECE students playing and building with small loose parts.
ECE students in outdoor classroom
ECE student admiring the selection of hand puppets in the Resource Centre.
There are a lot of materials in the Resource Centre that aid in storytelling.
Check out the book, ‘Stick and Stone’, and then tell your own story with the available parts in the Resource Centre.
Letters written onto smooth rocks. A fun way to play and make words with natural materials in the Resource Centre.
ECE students follow instructions on how to move their hoops during their course titled 'Land-Based Play and Co-Learning through Etuaptmumk/Two-Eyed Seeing’.
ECE students raise their hoops to the sky during their course titled 'Land-Based Play and Co-Learning through Etuaptmumk/Two-Eyed Seeing’.
Children from Humber’s daycare join in playing with hoops alongside the ECE students.
ECE students in snowshoes, walk the land, and learn in Talking Circles during their course titled 'Land-Based Play and Co-Learning through Etuaptmumk/Two-Eyed Seeing’.
ECE students out for a winter walk in snowshoes, walking the land around Humber’s Arboretum.
Participants share the joy of receiving an award. The ECE program and its partnerships are highly esteemed in the field, having garnered numerous awards and accolades.
