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Start a Career in Early Childhood Education in 5 Weeks — 100% Online

Jul 27
3 min read

Foundational. Title 22-compliant. Fully online. EEAS-101 opens the door to Assistant Teacher, Teacher, and Lead Teacher positions in California's licensed child care programs, and it's the fastest course we offer.

Every child care classroom in California starts with someone who understands how children grow. Not just love knowledge. The kind that lets a caregiver look at a toddler stacking blocks and see cognitive development, motor skills, and emerging social behavior happening all at once.


That knowledge is what EEAS-101: Child Growth and Development teaches. And it's the first course on the path to Assistant Teacher, Teacher, and Lead Teacher positions in Title 22-licensed programs across the state.


Enrollment for the Fall term is this weekend. Here's why this course is different and why we're asking you to help us fill the remaining seats.


What EEAS-101 Actually Does

This is the foundational child development course required for anyone building a career in California child care. It's not a certificate or a workshop it's a 3-credit college course that:

  • Meets California Community Care Licensing (Title 22) educational requirements

  • Fulfills a core requirement in Theoria's Associate of Science in Early Childhood Education

  • Counts toward the ECE units required for Assistant Teacher, Teacher, and Lead Teacher permits

  • Introduces Piaget, Erikson, Vygotsky, and the developmental science every classroom teacher needs


By the end of the 5 weeks, students can identify developmental milestones in motor skills, language, and brain development; evaluate how family, culture, and environment shape a child's outcomes; understand adolescence as a unique developmental stage; and apply evidence-based strategies to the real classroom challenges every early educator sees including learning differences, trauma, and the transitions that happen in every child's life.


That's not just theory. That's the toolkit that changes how a caregiver sees the children in front of them.


Why 5 Weeks Matters!

Most colleges deliver Child Growth and Development as a 15- or 16-week semester course. At Theoria, it's the same rigor, 135 verified learning hours, the same primary textbook (Berger's The Developing Person), the same standards delivered in an accelerated 5-week format designed for working adults.


Fully online. Fully asynchronous. Fully instructor-supported. Students log in when their schedule allows, complete weekly modules on their own time, and receive substantive written feedback from a real ECE faculty member not a chatbot.


For a working caregiver, that means finishing a foundational college credit in five weeks instead of four months. For a director, it means moving your team through required coursework faster than any traditional program.


Who This Course Is For

If you're a director: every teacher on your team who's working toward qualification needs this course. Enroll them now and they finish before school starts with a college credit and the foundational knowledge that improves every classroom. Fewer callbacks from Licensing. Better teacher retention. Faster career growth for the people you rely on.


If you're a caregiver, teacher's aide, or someone considering a career in ECE: this is where you start. Not next year this weekend. Five weeks from now you'll have your first college credit toward Assistant Teacher, Teacher, and Lead Teacher qualifications. Five weeks from now you'll understand things about the children in your life you never quite had words for. And five weeks from now the next chapter of your career will already be open.


The Details

  • Course: EEAS-101 Child Growth and Development: Childhood and Adolescence

  • Starts: August 2, 2026 · Fall Semester 2026 · 5 weeks

  • Modality: 100% online (asynchronous) via the Orbund LMS

  • Credit: 3 semester units, transferable

  • Compliance: Title 22-aligned, meets California Community Care Licensing educational requirements

  • Textbook: Berger, The Developing Person (13th ed.)


Enroll Now — This Weekend

The next five weeks can change a career. Start yours today.

 
 
 

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