Cégep Gérald-Godin offers Diploma in Techniques d'éducation à l'enfance, a diploma in Early Childhood Education programme in Montréal, Canada. The programme runs for 3 years.
At a glance
Degree:Diploma
Field:Early Childhood Education
Duration: 3 years
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Information for the 2027/28 academic year · Last reviewed September 2026 ·
Program details
Overview
Techniques d'education a l'enfance is a technical DEC that trains future early childhood educators to work with children from birth to age twelve in daycare centres, CPEs, and school- or family-based childcare settings. Coursework builds a balanced foundation in child development, observation, intervention, creative activity planning, and group management, alongside the general education courses common to all DEC programs, so graduates can plan and deliver quality educational childcare and communicate effectively with children, families and colleagues. The program is distinguished by its alternance travail-etudes model: students complete five paid workplace placements per session starting in their first year, integrating classroom learning with supervised, remunerated practice in real childcare settings, including a partner early-learning centre located on site. Because placements involve direct contact with children, admission requires consent to a background check in addition to the college's general DEC admission conditions; no other specific secondary-level prerequisite applies. The program suits patient, creative and organized people who enjoy working directly with young children and want to qualify as recognized childcare personnel under Quebec's regulations, whether in centre-based, school, or home childcare environments.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Admission to Techniques d'education a l'enfance requires a Diploma of Secondary Studies (DES); the programme page states verbatim that no other specific prerequisite is necessary beyond Cegep Gerald-Godin's general admission conditions, applied for exclusively through the SRAM regional admission service. The page additionally requires consent to a criminal-record check, with clearance from police services being a condition for completing the programme's practicums in childcare settings. International applicants need a diploma SRAM judges equivalent to the DES and, since instruction is entirely in French, must pass a French test accepted by SRAM if their prior schooling was not in French; after admission they must obtain a CAQ, a Canadian study permit, a co-op work permit for the childcare placements, and valid Canadian health and hospitalization insurance.
Application Details
Application Deadline:Domestic (Quebec/Canadian) applicants apply through SRAM: for Hiver (Winter) 2027 entry the portal opened September 15, 2026, Round 1 closes November 1, 2026 and Round 2 closes November 25, 2026; for Automne (Fall) 2027 entry SRAM's fixed Round 1 cutoff is March 1, 2027, though Round 2/3 dates for 2027 are not yet posted (Automne 2026's rounds closed April 22 and May 27, 2026). International applicants also apply through SRAM, which sets a fixed March 14 deadline for Automne entry, though Cegep Gerald-Godin separately and strongly recommends international applicants submit by February 1 to help ensure an August start; no exceptions are made once SRAM's deadline passes, so admission is round-based for domestic candidates and firm for international ones. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
