Mtel Early Childhood (02) Exam Secrets Study Guide: Mtel Test Review for the Massachusetts Tests for Educator Licensure

***Includes Practice Test Questions***

Get the test prep help you need to be successful on the MTEL Early Childhood test.

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

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

MTEL Early Childhood (02) Exam Secrets Study Guide includes:

• A detailed guide to the Massachusetts Tests for Educator Licensure Early Childhood Exam
• An extensive look at knowledge of child development
• A complete overview of children's literature and the writing process
• A thorough breakdown of content knowledge of mathematics
• An in-depth analysis of content knowledge of history and social studies
• A full examination of content knowledge of science
• An exhaustive review of the integration of knowledge and understanding

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 Massachusetts Department of Education (MDOE) and National Evaluation Systems (NES) expects you to have mastered before sitting for the exam.

The Knowledge of Child Development section covers:

• Sensorimotor period of cognitive development
• Piaget
• Periods of communication development
• Self-concept
• Freud s psychoanalytic theory of personality development
• Prejudice and discrimination

The Children s Literature and the Writing Process section covers:

• Phonetics and the speech system
• Phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, and phonics
• Oral language development
• Phonology, morphology, semantics, syntax, and pragmatics
• Stages of English as a second language
• Writing skills development

The Content Knowledge: Mathematics section covers:

• Problem solving skills
• Patterns and relationships
• Number sense and number operations
• Spatial sense and geometry
• Measurement
• Probabilities and statistics

The Content Knowledge: History and Social Studies section covers:

• Culture
• Developmental milestones and their associated ages that vary according to culture
• Essential concepts in geography
• Graphs
• Chronological thinking and understanding history
• Our country s laws and rules

The Content Knowledge: Science section covers:

• Fundamental science concepts
• Naturalistic, informal, and structured learning experiences
• Physical science and matter
• Solar system s location and components
• Rocks found on the Earth s surface
• Animal life cycles

The Integration of Knowledge and Understanding section covers:

• Language Experience Approach (LEA)
• Aesthetic experiences
• Affective learning experiences
• Learning environments
• Including families in children s education
• Screening and assessment instruments

These sections are full of specific and detailed information that will be key to passing the MTEL Early Childhood 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.