1. Maintain a safe play environment.

1. Observe and Monitor children’s play activities

1. Communicate with children's parents or guardians about daily activities, behaviors, and related issues.
2. Identify signs of emotional or developmental problems in children and bring them to parents or guardians attention.

1. Care for children in institutional setting, such as group homes, nursery schools, private businesses, or schools for the handicapped.

1. Support children's emotional and social development, encouraging understanding of others and positive self-concepts.

1. Sanitize toys and play equipment.
2. Sterilize bottles and prepare formulas.

1. Dress children and change diapers
2. Instruct children in health and personal habits, such as eating, resting, and toilet habits

1. Keep records on individual children, including daily observations and information about activities, meals served, and medications administered.

1. Identify signs of emotional or developmental problems in children and bring them to parents or guardians attention.

1. Organize and store toys and materials to ensure order in activity areas.

1. Instruct children in health and personal habits, such as eating, resting, and toilet habits.

1. Discipline children and recommend or initiate other measures to control behavior, such as caring for own clothing and picking up toys and books.
2. Read to children and teach them simple painting, drawing, handicrafts, and songs.
3. Help children with homework and school work.

1. Perform general administrative tasks, such as taking attendance, editing internal paperwork, and making phone calls.

1. Provide care for mentally disturbed, delinquent, or handicapped children.

1. Create developmentally appropriate lesson plans.

1. Perform housekeeping duties, such as laundry, cleaning, dish washing, and changing of linens.

1. Assist in preparing food and serving meals and refreshments to children.

1. Regulate childrens rest periods.

1. Perform general personnel functions, such as supervision, training, and scheduling.

1. Perform general personnel functions, such as supervision, training, and scheduling.

1. Perform general personnel functions, such as supervision, training, and scheduling.

1. Organize and participate in recreational activities and outings, such as games and field trips.

1. Accompany children to and from school, on outings, and to medical appointments.

Focuses on child growth and development from birth to age five, with emphasis on planning a safe, healthy, and supporting learning environment for children, including strategies in positive guidance. Students will explore ways to support positive social development in children, strategies for positive guidance and management, and ways to establish and maintain a safe, healthy, appropriate learning environment for children.

Give students resource materials, a basic foundation of knowledge, and hands-on experience in ways to nurture cognitive, motor, language, and creative process skills in children. Principles of children’s growth and development will be integrated throughout the course, as will experiences in observing and recording children’s behavior and progress in the areas of creative process, motor development, language, and cognitive development. Long range and daily planning will also be explored.

Understanding the roles of good nutrition, health, and safety in the early childhood classroom. Students will learn practical skills and procedures to increase their effectiveness with young children.