Child Care Teacher

Supervise, evaluate, and plan assignments for teacher assistants and volunteers.

Meet with other professionals to discuss individual students' needs and progress.

Serve meals and snacks in accordance with nutritional guidelines.

Prepare and implement remedial programs for students requiring extra help.

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

Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.

Enforce all administration policies and rules governing students.

Demonstrate activities to children.

Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.

Teach proper eating habits and personal hygiene.

Assimilate arriving children to the school environment by greeting them, helping them remove outerwear, and selecting activities of interest to them.

Confer with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons promoting learning, following approved curricula.

Collaborate with other teachers and administrators in the development, evaluation, and revision of preschool programs.

Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.

Attend professional meetings, educational conferences, and teacher training workshops to maintain and improve professional competence.

Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order.

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.

Arrange indoor and outdoor space to facilitate creative play, motor-skill activities, and safety.

Observe and evaluate children's performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.

Read books to entire classes or to small groups.

Organize and label materials and display students' work in a manner appropriate for their ages and perceptual skills.

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.

Select, store, order, issue, and inventory classroom equipment, materials, and supplies.

Organize and lead activities designed to promote physical, mental, and social development, such as games, arts and crafts, music, storytelling, and field trips.

Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to children.

Teach basic skills, such as color, shape, number and letter recognition, personal hygiene, and social skills.

Provide disabled students with assistive devices, supportive technology, and assistance accessing facilities, such as restrooms.

Attend staff meetings and serve on committees as required.

Plan and supervise class projects, field trips, visits by guests, or other experiential activities and guide students in learning from those activities.

Perform administrative duties, such as hall and cafeteria monitoring and bus loading and unloading.

Prepare reports on students and activities as required by administration.

Attend to children's basic needs by feeding them, dressing them, and changing their diapers.