PLACE Early Childhood Education (02) Exam Secrets Study Guide: PLACE Test Review for the Program for Licensing Assessments for Colorado Educators

***Includes Practice Test Questions***

Get the test prep help you need to be successful on the PLACE Early Childhood Education exam.

The PLACE Early Childhood Education (02) Exam is extremely challenging and thorough test preparation is essential for success. PLACE Early Childhood Education Exam Secrets Study Guide is the ideal prep solution for anyone who wants to pass the PLACE Early Childhood Education Exam.

Not only does it provide a comprehensive guide to the PLACE Early Childhood Education Exam as a whole, it also provides practice test questions as well as detailed explanations of each answer.

PLACE Early Childhood Education (02) Exam Secrets Study Guide includes:

• A thorough review of the PLACE early childhood education exam
• A thorough review of the PLACE Early Childhood Education Exam
• A guide to child development and learning
• An in-depth look at curriculum: literacy
• An analysis of curriculum: mathematics
• A breakdown of curriculum: social studies
• An extensive review of curriculum: science
• A guide to curriculum: the arts
• An examination of health, safety, and physical education
• An analysis of instruction and assessment
• A breakdown of professionalism
• An in-depth look at child development, family and community

It's filled with the critical information you'll need in order to do well on the test the concepts, procedures, principles, and vocabulary that the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) expects you to have mastered before sitting for the exam.

The Child Development and Learning section covers:

• Sensorimotor period of cognitive development
• Periods of communication development
• Freud's psychoanalytic theory of personality development

The Curriculum: Literacy section covers:

• Phonetics and the speech system
• Oral language development
• Dyslexia

The Curriculum: Mathematics section covers:

• Problem solving skills
• Number sense and number operations
• Making mathematics fun

The Curriculum: Social Studies section covers:

• Levels of self-awareness
• Family systems theory
• Graphs

The Curriculum: Science section covers:

• Naturalistic, informal, and structured learning experiences
• Magnetism
• Solar system's location and components

The Curriculum: The Arts section covers:

• Main functions of art
• Fundamental artistic processes
• Unity

The Health, Safety, and Physical Education section covers:

• Promoting human health and wellness and preventing disease
• Newborn motor reflexes
• Digestive system

The Instruction and Assessment section covers:

• Whole language approach to teaching child literacy
• Aesthetic experiences
• Screening and assessment instruments

The Professionalism section covers:

• Professionalism and professional responsibility
• Medical care and treatment
• Custody issues

The Child Development, Family and Community section covers:

• Genetic and environmental influences
• Birth order
• Sleep

These sections are full of specific and detailed information that will be key to passing the PLACE Early Childhood Education Exam. Concepts and principles aren't simply named or described in passing, but are explained in detail. The guide is laid out in a logical and organized fashion so that one section naturally flows from the one preceding it. Because it's written with an eye for both technical accuracy and accessibility, you will not have to worry about getting lost in dense academic language.