There’s nothing like seeing it to believe it. You can explain it all you want and even draw it, but there is nothing like seeing an actual house under construction to understand the relationship between architectural blueprints and someone’s future home. I had the fortunate occasion to bring a group of Carpentry students to one...Read More

Six years ago, I started teaching at CVCEC, I was a substitute teacher. Although I had many years of work experience in the construction field, the complexity of teaching was a new task for me. At the end of the module, I was offered and accepted to teach another module and once again my practical experience...Read More

The Carpentry and Health Care programs at the Chateauguay Valley Career Centre (CVCEC) are traditionally male and female dominated programs. Every school year we have a few female students registered for the Carpentry program and a couple of male students registered in the Health Care programs. While speaking to our current students, it was nice...Read More

Welcome back to our CVCEC team from the mountains of the Dominican Republic. This year the team consisted of students and teachers from our Health Care programs and a Carpentry teacher. Everyone had an amazing experience volunteering at clinics, shadowing in hospitals, visiting a women’s shelter and a diabetic clinic and finally visiting construction and greenhouse...Read More

Good afternoon, ladies and gentleman, I’d like to introduce you to the Chateauguay Valley Career Education Centre – located in the heart of the Valley – not a far car drive away from the BIG city (and in the opposite direction of traffic!) for those of you interested in one of our programs. I have...Read More

Our homes, for the most part, are taken for granted. We walk into the front door of our homes never thinking about what is underneath the gyprock and paint. We need to look behind the finished goods to see the skeleton of our homes. Our students are taught the fundamentals of footings and walls in...Read More

When someone has years of experience in a trade and is unable to practice it in the province, it can be very frustrating. Generally people with years of experience cannot take a year or more off from working in order to sit in a classroom and be taught what they already know; this is where...Read More

Our vocational Healthcare Programs at CVCEC prepare students for a professional career in the health care field. One of the objectives of our Health Care Programs is to meet industry and student needs by effectively incorporating knowledge and practical skills into the program. As for student needs, classroom work provides some insight into the demands...Read More

Ocoa Trip, 2015 to the Dominican Republic Life at CVCEC is always full of surprises and unexpected events.  This is one of the things that makes working here a dynamic and interesting place. For the past few years, the Health Care groups have been going on humanitarian field trips with students to the Dominican Republic....Read More