How do they match: Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education

Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs and interests.
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 other professionals to discuss individual students' needs and progress.
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.
Provide disabled students with assistive devices, supportive technology, and assistance accessing facilities, such as restrooms.
Supervise, evaluate, and plan assignments for teacher assistants and volunteers.

Assist students with special educational needs.
Administer tests to assess educational needs or progress.
Arrange childcare or educational settings to ensure physical safety of children.
Develop strategies or programs for students with special needs.
Modify teaching methods or materials to accommodate student needs.
Provide for basic needs of children.

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