Early Years, Explained

The early childhood content the certification exams actually test, one short lesson at a time. Each one comes with a written deep dive you can print. Free to watch, no account and no card.

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Nora, who presents Early Years, Explained, in a primary classroom
Nora presents every lesson in the series.

Child Development, Learning, and Assessment

  • ILTS 206 Early Childhood Education
  • Praxis Early Childhood Education: Foundational Knowledge (5533)
  • Praxis Early Childhood Education: Foundational Knowledge and Content (5534)
  • NES Early Childhood Education Subtest I (108)

Tested on these. Not necessarily required of you.

  1. Episode 17:28Developmentally Appropriate Is Not Age AppropriateThree decisions about the same activity: the age, this child, and where she comes from. The phrase is misused whenever it only means the first.

The rest of the series

  • Season 2 · 31% of ILTS 206 of the testLanguage and Literacy Development
  • Season 3 · 31% of ILTS 206 of the testLearning Across the Curriculum
  • Season 4 · 13% of ILTS 206 of the testProfessional Relationships and Responsibilities

This is content review. The course is how you work the questions.

Knowing the content and beating the exam are two different jobs. These lessons do the first one, free, for as long as you want to use them. Built To Pass is the whole system for the second:

  • A free diagnostic that shows you which objectives are actually weak
  • Full-length mock exams on the real clock
  • An AI test coach that answers at eleven at night
  • The video lessons, in order, with no guessing what is next

Confidence is built, not born.

Two places we post first

New lessons land on YouTube the day they are finished, and the Facebook page is where the questions get answered.