Early Years, Explained · Season 4, Episode 1

A Newsletter Is Not a Partnership

A teacher can communicate with families every week for a year and have no partnership at the end of it, because every one of those went out and nothing came back.

Runtime
7:47
Deep dive
9 pages
Reading and doing
50 min
Tested on
4 exams
7:47Free to watchNo account

The written deep dive

9 pages that go further than the video

The video gives you the distinction. This gives you the practice, the worked reasoning, and a version you can print and mark up.

  • 15 minDraw the arrow on everything you sent home last month
  • 10 minSix practice questions with worked reasoning
  • 25 minAsk the nine questions of three families and use one answer

About 50 minutes end to end

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9 pages, about 50 minutes of reading and doing. Free, and yours to print.

Where this shows up

Exams that test what this lesson covers

  • ILTS 206 Early Childhood Education
  • Praxis Early Childhood Education: Foundational Knowledge (5533)
  • Praxis Early Childhood Education: Foundational Knowledge and Content (5534)
  • Praxis Interdisciplinary Early Childhood Education

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