Flight: Alberta’s Early Learning and Care Framework is a curriculum framework intended to guide the significant work of early learning and child care educators with young children (ages 0 – before 6 years) and their families in centre-based child care and family day home settings. This is a flexible framework for thinking about how children learn and experience their worlds, as well as a guide that fosters strong early childhood communities.
Children’s play is central to this curriculum framework as an active, exploratory, creative, and expressive process, deeply embedded in children’s everyday experiences and through which children participate in, learn about, and actively make sense of the world.
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Introducing The Flight Course Series
The Flight Course Series is an online, non-credit professional learning opportunity for educators and program administrators working in Alberta’s licensed and approved child care programs. The Flight Course Series includes three parts: The Noticing Series, the Naming Series, and the Nurturing Series. Each series explores different concepts within Flight while remaining grounded in the framework as a whole. Throughout the series, you’ll be introduced to core concepts and the holistic play-based goals of Flight, with meaningful opportunities to connect those ideas directly to your everyday work with children.
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