Lesson series

Pre-Service Training Course

This course meets the initial 24 hours of pre-service training requirements for those providing care to children in child care centers in Texas.

Why should I take this course?

Become the caregiver every parent wants for their child, and every center director wants on their team! 
This course includes 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 safety practices in the care of children
  • Positive interaction with children
  • Preventing and controlling the spread of communicable diseases
  • Recognizing and preventing shaken baby syndrome and abusive head trauma
  • Understanding and using safe sleep practices and preventing sudden infant death syndrome
  • Understanding early childhood brain development


Caregivers working with infants, toddlers, or preschoolers will be able to use this course to fulfill the minimum standard requirement.
This course was very informative. I am taking away new ideas that I didn't have before I went through this course. Because of this, the children within my care will be better served. The information was very thorough and I feel that there was nothing left unturned for me to know about better caring for children. I appreciate that because I want to give the best care that I can give. This course as empowered me to do so. This was also a good refresher course of many of things i knew in the past.  ~ S.R.

This course was enlightened and refreshing. I’ve been in childcare for 6 years and it was good to get a refresher course in the subjects I already knew.  ~ R.S.