Welcome to Pre-Service Training for Child Care Providers in Texas

Are you ready to get down to business and learn creative ideas like the little girl to your right? In this eight hour training, we are going to explore the following topics:
- Developmental Stages of Children
- Age-Appropriate Activities for Children
- Positive Guidance and Discipline of Children
- Fostering Children's Self Esteem
- Supervision and Safe Practices in the Care of Children
- Positive Interaction with Children
- Preventing the Spread of Communicable Diseases
- Shaken Baby Syndrome, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Early Childhood Brain Development.
As you can see, there are many important things to learn when you are responsible for the care of young children so let's get started.
Click here to begin your first lesson. Click 8 HR PRESERVICE and click Lesson 1 to begin. You will have the opportunity to review lessons if you need, otherwise, the next lesson will automatically open after successfully completing the lesson you are working on.
Payment is required to complete this course and receive a certificate.
Please be patient while lessons are loading. They are large files and may take up to 5 minutes to load depending on the speed of your internet connection. If you have extreme difficulty loading the files, send me an email at stephwilk@live.com and we can make accomodations.
ADDITIONAL 16 HOURS - STATE LAW
The State of Texas in Senate Bill 260 mandated all new employees working directly with children to complete an additional 16 hours of training in their first 90 days of employment. I am offering 8 two hour sessions to meet the minimum standards of 16 hours. Click here to get started today. Time is ticking and you want to make sure you are in compliance if you are audited by licensing. Please contact Stephanie Wilkinson at (806) 9301252 for more information.
Value of Play - Teacher/Child Interaction - $10
Health & Safety - Disease and Handwashing - $10

