The Same Child Bit Three Kids This Week. She Moved One Shelf. It Stopped.

Three Fall 2026 Courses Starting This Weekend at Theoria Technical College: EEAS-120 · EEAS-320 · MTH-101

Jaylen is three, and by Thursday he had bitten three classmates.

Every bite happened in the same corner of the room, between the block area and the cubbies, in the ten minutes before lunch. His teacher had tried everything she knew. Time away. Firm words. A sticker chart. A note home. Nothing changed, and the other parents were starting to ask questions at pickup.

Then she stopped looking only at Jaylen and started looking at the room.

The block shelf created a narrow lane where four children crowded together every day before lunch, hungry and tired. Jaylen was not "the biter." He was a three-year-old with no space, no words yet, and no adult close enough to step in. She tracked what happened right before each bite, moved one shelf, opened the lane, and stationed herself at the transition.

The biting stopped by the following Tuesday.

That is not luck. That is training. And two of the courses starting this weekend teach exactly that.

EEAS-120: Effective Strategies for Challenging Behaviors

This is the course that teaches teachers to stop asking "What is wrong with this child?" and start asking "What is this behavior telling me?"

Grounded in Kaiser and Rasminsky's Challenging Behavior in Young Children and the Vanderbilt Pyramid Model, students learn to:

• Track the ABCs of behavior (Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence) and identify what a child is getting from it: attention, escape, sensory input, or a toy.

• Prevent behavior before it starts through relationships, routines, and classroom climate.

• Write a real Positive Behavior Support plan with measurable goals and a way to track progress.

• Partner with families in ways that are respectful and culturally responsive.

EEAS-320: Creating Environments for Learning

This is the course that teaches teachers to see the room the way Jaylen's teacher finally did: as "the third teacher."

Using Bullard's Creating Environments for Learning: Birth to Age Eight and the same Environment Rating Scales (ECERS-3, ITERS-3, FCCERS-R) that quality reviewers use, students learn to:

• Design learning centers for literacy, math, science, art, blocks, dramatic play, sensory, and outdoor play.

• Plan transitions and routines so the day flows instead of collides.

• Assess a classroom the way a reviewer would, then adapt it based on what they observe.

• Build spaces that are inclusive and culturally responsive.

Both EEAS courses include a Supervised Field Experience, so students practice in a real classroom while they learn. Both count as electives toward the AS in Early Childhood Education.

MTH-101: College Math and Algebra

And then there is the class many of our students have been avoiding for years.

If you have told yourself "I'm not a math person," you are not alone, and this course was built for you. MTH-101 starts with whole numbers, fractions, decimals, and percentages, and builds step by step through algebra, using real-world problems: budgets, ratios, measurements, the kind of math a lead teacher or center director uses every week.

Instructor Dr. Pierre Williams posts worked examples and step-by-step solutions every week, and quizzes allow up to three attempts. MTH-101 satisfies General Education Area G (Math Competency) for the AS degree. For many students, it is the last class standing between them and their degree. Five weeks from now, it does not have to be.

All Three: Five Weeks, Fully Online, No Prerequisites

Every course runs five weeks, asynchronously through Orbund. No set login times. No prerequisites. Seats are open now, and the term starts this weekend.

Enroll, or nominate someone on your team: Academic Affairs · academics@theoriatechnical.com · (760) 487-8436

Because there is a Jaylen in somebody's classroom right now. And a teacher who is one math class away from her degree. Both of them are waiting on the same thing: someone to sign up.

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