How do they match: Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education

  • Teach academic and social skills to kindergarten students.

  • Confer with parents or guardians, other teachers, counselors, and administrators to resolve students' behavioral and academic problems.
  • Identify children showing signs of emotional, developmental, or health-related problems and discuss them with supervisors, parents or guardians, and child development specialists.
  • Involve parent volunteers and older students in children's activities to facilitate involvement in focused, complex play.
  • Meet with parents and guardians to discuss their children's progress and to determine their priorities for their children and their resource needs.
  • Organize and label materials and display children's work in a manner appropriate for their sizes and perceptual skills.
  • Prepare materials, classrooms, and other indoor and outdoor spaces to facilitate creative play, learning and motor-skill activities, and safety.
  • Teach basic skills, such as color, shape, number and letter recognition, personal hygiene, and social skills.

  • Discuss student progress with parents or guardians.
  • Teach life skills.