How do they match: Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education

  • Child Care Assistant Teacher
  • Child Caregiver
  • Child Development Teacher
  • Childcare Provider
  • Childcare Teacher
  • Childhood Development Teacher
  • Early Childhood Teacher
  • School Age Teacher

  • Instruct preschool-aged students, following curricula or lesson plans, in activities designed to promote social, physical, and intellectual growth.

  • Administer tests to help determine children's developmental levels, needs, and potential.
  • Assimilate arriving children to the school environment by greeting them, helping them remove outerwear, and selecting activities of interest to them.
  • Attend to children's basic needs by feeding them, dressing them, and changing their diapers.
  • Demonstrate activities to children.
  • Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to children.
  • 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 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.
  • Observe and evaluate children's performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
  • Organize and label materials and display students' work in a manner appropriate for their ages and perceptual skills.
  • Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.
  • Provide a variety of materials and resources for children to explore, manipulate, and use, both in learning activities and in imaginative play.
  • Provide disabled students with assistive devices, supportive technology, and assistance accessing facilities, such as restrooms.

  • Arrange childcare or educational settings to ensure physical safety of children.
  • Display student work.
  • Evaluate student work.
  • Provide for basic needs of children.
  • Supervise student research or internship work.