Early Childhood Worker
Competency-based
ONET: 25-2011.00
1
Years
37
Skills
21h
Related instructions
Classroom instruction topics
- Introduction to Early Childhood Education
- Preschool Development & Care
- Child Health, Safety, & Nutrition
- Children with Special Needs
- Infant & Toddler Development & Care
- Early Childhood Education Lab I
- *Human Growth & Development
On-the-job training
- Teach life skills
- Teach basic skills, such as color, shape, number and letter recognition, personal hygiene, and social skills.
- Teach proper eating habits and personal hygiene.
- Provide for basic needs of children
- Serve meals and snacks in accordance with nutritional guidelines.
- Attend to children’s basic needs by feeding them, dressing them, and changing their diapers.
- Assimilate arriving children to the school environment by greeting them, helping them remove outerwear, and selecting activities of interest to them.
- Set up classroom materials or equipment
- Provide a variety of materials and resources for children to explore, manipulate, and use, both in learning activities and in imaginative play.
- Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.
- Arrange indoor and outdoor space to facilitate creative play, motor-skill activities, and safety.
- Establish rules or policies governing student behavior
- Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures
- Modify teaching methods or materials to accommodate student needs
- Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs and interests.
- Discuss student progress with parents or guardians
- Meet with parents and guardians to discuss their children's progress and needs, determine their priorities for their children, and suggest ways that they can promote learning and development.
- Identify children showing signs of emotional, developmental, or health-related problems and discuss them with supervisors, parents or guardians, and child development specialists.
- Discuss problems or issues with supervisors
- Identify children showing signs of emotional, developmental, or health-related problems and discuss them with supervisors, parents or guardians, and child development specialists.
- Meet with other professionals to discuss individual students' needs and progress.
- Monitor student behavior, social development, or health
- Identify children showing signs of emotional, developmental, or health-related problems and discuss them with supervisors, parents or guardians, and child development specialists.
- Observe and evaluate children's performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
- Plan educational activities
- Organize and lead activities designed to promote physical, mental, and social development, such as games, arts and crafts, music, storytelling, and field trips.
- Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.
- Evaluate student work
- Observe and evaluate children's performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
- Maintain student records
- Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.
- Monitor student performance
- Observe and evaluate children's performance, behavior, social development, and physical health
- Read to Students
- Read books to entire classes or to small groups
- Develop instructional objectives
- Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to children.
- Apply multiple teaching methods
- Demonstrate activities to children
- Arrange childcare or educational setting to ensure physical safety of children
- Arrange indoor and outdoor space to facilitate creative play, motor-skill activities, and safety.
- Enforce rules or policies governing student behavior
- Enforce all administration policies and rules governing students
- Develop strategies or programs for students with special needs.
- Prepare and implement remedial programs for students requiring extra help
- Collaborate with other teaching professionals to develop educational programs.
- Confer with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons promoting learning, following approved curricula.
- Collaborate with other teachers and administrators in the development, evaluation, and revision of preschool programs.
- Assist students with special educational needs
- Provide disabled students with assistive devices, supportive technology, and assistance accessing facilities, such as restrooms
- Prepare reports detailing student activities or performance
- Prepare reports on students and activities as required by administration.
- Plan experiential learning activities
- Plan and supervise class projects, field trips, visits by guests, or other experiential activities and guide students in learning from those activities.
- Supervise school or student activities
- Perform administrative duties, such as hall and cafeteria monitoring and bus loading and unloading.
- Distribute instructional or library materials
- Select, store, order, issue, and inventory classroom equipment, materials, and supplies.
- Evaluate performance of educational staff
- Supervise, evaluate, and plan assignments for teacher assistants and volunteers.
- Maintain inventories of materials, equipment, or products.
- Select, store, order, issue, and inventory classroom equipment, materials, and supplies
- Administer tests to assess educational needs or progress.
- Administer tests to help determine children's developmental levels, needs, and potential.
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