At Coast Mountain College in Terrace, Canada, Education Assistant Certificate is offered as a certificate in Education & Teaching programme. The programme runs for 1 year, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 16,010 per year (CAD 3,767 per year for local students).
The certificate prepares graduates to work at the para-professional level, taking direction from classroom or resource teachers while supporting, in elementary and secondary settings, students who face exceptionalities and challenges. Curriculum builds knowledge and skills for functioning as part of an educational team, including the integration of students with exceptionalities into regular classrooms. It also examines the history of colonization and its effects on Indigenous education, traditional Indigenous parenting models, and the relationships among parents, families, communities and schools, treating the building of trusting relationships with Indigenous learners and communities as a core part of the curriculum. Graduates qualify to work as education assistants in British Columbia school districts, community-based support agencies or private educational institutions.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Admission follows the Education Assistant Certificate page in Coast Mountain College's catalogue. The stated academic requirement is English Studies 10 or English First Peoples 10 (or equivalent). Beyond that, applicants must supply two references, from an employer, volunteer supervisor, teacher, or educational professional, attesting to their suitability to work with students with exceptionalities, and a letter of introduction submitted in writing, recorded, or presented at interview; the program coordinator or designate then reviews the application package. Before starting practicum placements, students must submit a criminal record check including vulnerable-populations screening and proof of current immunizations and TB skin test per BC Centre for Disease Control guidelines. The program page does not state a standardized English-language test requirement; English proficiency otherwise follows CMTN's institution-wide requirement. The program admits for Fall 2026 on a regional basis.
Application Details
Start Date:September and January
Application Deadline:Coast Mountain College runs one common application calendar across its campuses rather than a single date per programme. Domestic applicants: for the 2026-27 academic year, applications opened 1 October 2026; the final day to apply is 24 December 2026 for Winter (January 2027) entry, 23 April 2027 for Spring/Summer 2027, and 30 August 2027 for Fall 2027. International applicants share the same opening date but face earlier cut-offs: 1 October 2026 for Winter, 1 February 2027 for Spring/Summer, and 1 June 2027 for Fall, and some high-demand programmes may close sooner. Trades and other varying-start programmes are judged against their own start dates (international due three months, domestic one week, before start), and continuous-intake programmes accept applications year-round. No single closing date exists beyond these cut-offs. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
