World-Class Professional Development – Built for the Canadian Landscape.
Canadian Centre for Advanced Training and Teaching
Why CCATT?
CCATT provides skill-based training that transfers across roles and environments. Our programs serve educators, families, caregivers and organizations, using strategies and tools that make learning practical, inclusive, and easy to apply.
Our learning series are organized into short professional modules that focus on real-world competencies in the following categories:
Educator Skills Development: Private High Schools Series
Teaching Neurodivergent Learners in Educational Settings (TNLES)
Teaching Neurodivergent Children at Home (TNCH)
CCATT: The Centre for Canadian Excellence
CCATT is a Canadian-based adult education and professional learning centre supporting learners, workplaces, and organizations nationwide. Our practical, outcomes-focused programs are designed for businesses and non-profits, public sector organizations, educators, caregivers, and people transitioning into new careers.
Whether you are supporting a neurodivergent child’s learning at home in Alberta, working in a public sector or community organization in Ontario, or teaching in a classroom in Nova Scotia, we understand your context—and design training that reflects your reality.
Programs
Educator Skills Development
This program offers practical, skill-based training designed to strengthen the confidence and classroom effectiveness of current and aspiring educators. These short professional modules focus on the real-world competencies needed to teach, manage, and inspire learners in private high school environments. Each module combines theory with hands-on strategies, giving participants actionable tools to support student engagement, instructional planning, assessment, and classroom management.
By completing this program, educators not only enhance their professional practice but also contribute to the overall credibility and educational quality of their institutions. Strengthening teacher qualifications and pedagogical standards supports private high schools in meeting Ministry inspection expectations and demonstrating a commitment to excellence in teaching and learning. Whether participants are new to the classroom or experienced professionals refining their methods, each module builds practical competence, reflective insight, and confidence in daily instruction.
- TPI-01: Adolescent Development
- TPI-02: Foundations of Teaching and Learning
- TPI-03: Teaching Blueprint: From Outcomes to Lesson Planning
- TPI-04: Supporting Success Through Assessment
- TPI-05: Course Delivery and Classroom Management
Teaching Neurodivergent Learners in Educational Settings (TNLES)
This learning series helps educators, educational assistants, support staff, and learning teams turn curriculum expectations, outcomes, competencies, and learning standards into accessible teaching and learning opportunities for neurodivergent learners. The learning series is built around one central purpose: helping educators keep learning connected to curriculum while adapting activities, materials, pace, environment, response options, and support levels to the learner’s needs.
The series uses pan-Canadian learning domains that can be adapted to any educational environment. Participants learn how curriculum language, planning processes, assessment practices, and support structures may differ, but the basic teaching question stays the same: what is the learner expected to learn, practise, understand, communicate, or demonstrate?
Through practical examples, planning templates, classroom tools, and educator handouts, participants learn how to create teaching and learning experiences that are purposeful, flexible, curriculum-connected, and responsive to the learner’s strengths and support needs.
Unit 1
Foundations for Teaching Neurodivergent Learners in School Settings is designed to help educators and school-based support staff build the basic understanding needed before planning inclusive, curriculum-connected instruction. It focuses on understanding the learner, creating supportive classroom conditions, using clear and structured teaching routines, and collecting early evidence of learning.
Unit 2
Curriculum Language and Pan-Canadian Context introduces participants to the different curriculum terms, education language, and support wording used across Canada. It helps educators and school-based support staff understand how expectations, outcomes, competencies, and learning standards can be translated into practical, inclusive classroom goals for neurodivergent learners.
Unit 3
Curriculum-Connected Teaching in Practice brings together the practical skills educators and school-based support staff need to turn curriculum requirements into accessible classroom learning experiences for neurodivergent learners. Across six modules, participants learn how to interpret curriculum goals, break learning into manageable steps, adapt tasks without losing the learning goal, plan structured instructional activities, and assess whether learning has taken place.
Teaching Neurodivergent Children at Home (TNCH)
Teaching Neurodivergent Children at Home (TNCH) is a neurodiversity-affirming and strength-based program that helps caregivers turn curriculum expectations into calm, practical, and child-centred learning at home. The learning series is built around one central purpose: helping caregivers keep learning connected to curriculum while adapting the activity, materials, pace, environment, response options, and support level to the child’s needs.
The course begins with foundational teaching skills, introduces caregivers to curriculum language examples, and shows how to plan, adapt, teach, and assess curriculum-connected activities in everyday home-learning routines. It is designed to help caregivers feel more confident, organized, and responsive while supporting neurodivergent children in ways that respect how they learn best.
Through practical examples, planning templates, and toolkit handouts, participants learn how to build home lessons that are purposeful, flexible, and connected to the child’s learning needs.
Unit 1
Foundations for Curriculum-Connected Teaching is designed to help caregivers build the basic understanding needed before planning curriculum-connected learning at home. It focuses on understanding the child as a learner, creating supportive learning conditions, using simple teaching routines, and collecting early evidence of learning.
Unit 2
Curriculum Language and Pan-Canadian Context introduces caregivers to the different curriculum terms, home education language, and support wording used across Canada. It helps caregivers understand how expectations, outcomes, competencies, and learning standards can be translated into practical home-learning goals.
Unit 3
Curriculum-Connected Teaching in Practice brings together the practical skills caregivers need to turn curriculum requirements into accessible home-learning activities. Across six modules, caregivers learn how to interpret curriculum goals, break learning into manageable steps, adapt tasks without losing the goal, plan structured home-learning activities, and assess whether learning has taken place.