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
  • Day Care Provider
  • Day Care Teacher
  • Early Childhood Teacher

  • 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.
  • Provide a variety of materials and resources for children to explore, manipulate, and use, both in learning activities and in imaginative play.

  • Arrange childcare or educational settings to ensure physical safety of children.
  • Provide for basic needs of children.