Washburn Tech

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 supervising snack time and assisting with toileting needs as necessary.
  • 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 problems or issues with supervisors
  • Identify children showing signs of emotional, developmental, or health-related problems and discuss them with supervisors.
• Monitor student behavior, social development, or health
  • 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, and storytelling.
• 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
• 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
• Collaborate with other teaching professionals to develop educational programs.
  • Confer with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons promoting learning, following approved curricula.
• Supervise school or student activities
  • Observe tests to assess educational needs or progress.
  • Observe tests to help determine children's developmental levels, needs, and potential.