How do they match: Childcare Workers

Attend to children at schools, businesses, private households, and childcare institutions. Perform a variety of tasks, such as dressing, feeding, bathing, and overseeing play.

Assist in preparing food and serving meals and refreshments to children.
Accompany children to and from school, on outings, and to medical appointments.
Care for children in institutional setting, such as group homes, nursery schools, private businesses, or schools for the handicapped.
Communicate with children's parents or guardians about daily activities, behaviors, and related issues.
Discipline children and recommend or initiate other measures to control behavior, such as caring for own clothing and picking up toys and books.
Dress children and change diapers.
Help children with homework and school work.
Identify signs of emotional or developmental problems in children and bring them to parents' or guardians' attention.
Instruct children in health and personal habits, such as eating, resting, and toilet habits.
Keep records on individual children, including daily observations and information about activities, meals served, and medications administered.
Observe and monitor children's play activities.
Operate in-house day-care centers within businesses.
Provide care for mentally disturbed, delinquent, or handicapped children.
Read to children and teach them simple painting, drawing, handicrafts, and songs.
Regulate children's rest periods.
Support children's emotional and social development, encouraging understanding of others and positive self-concepts.

Assist individuals with special needs.
Arrange childcare or educational settings to ensure physical safety of children.
Develop daily schedules for children or families.
Provide for basic needs of children.

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Site updated April 16, 2024

12 Alternate Occupation Titles