Apprentices progress at their own pace – they demonstrate
competency in skills and knowledge through assessment tests,
but are not required to complete a specific number of hours.
competency in skills and knowledge through assessment tests,
but are not required to complete a specific number of hours.
Child Care Development Specialist
Little Learners Spectrum Center
Missouri (OA)
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Work Process Content
On the Job Training
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Skills
Arrange childcare or educational settings to ensure physical safety of children.
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Arrange childcare or educational settings to ensure physical safety of children.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Maintain a safe play environment.
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Maintain a safe play environment.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Monitor activities of individuals to ensure safety or compliance with rules.
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Monitor activities of individuals to ensure safety or compliance with rules.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Discuss child development and behavior with parents or guardians.
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Discuss child development and behavior with parents or guardians.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Communicate with children, parents and/or guardians about daily activities, behaviors, and related issues.
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Communicate with children, parents and/or guardians about daily activities, behaviors, and related issues.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Identify signs of emotional or developmental problems in children and bring them to parent’s or guardian’s attention.
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Identify signs of emotional or developmental problems in children and bring them to parent’s or guardian’s attention.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Assist individuals with special needs.
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Assist individuals with special needs.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Care for children in institutional setting, such as group homes, nursery schools, private businesses, or schools for the handicapped.
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Care for children in institutional setting, such as group homes, nursery schools, private businesses, or schools for the handicapped.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Provide counsel, comfort, or encouragement to individuals or families.
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Provide counsel, comfort, or encouragement to individuals or families.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Support children’s emotional and social development, encouraging understanding of others and positive self-concepts.
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Support children’s emotional and social development, encouraging understanding of others and positive self-concepts.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Clean tools or equipment.
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Clean tools or equipment.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Sanitize toys and play equipment.
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Sanitize toys and play equipment.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Sterilize bottles and prepare formulas.
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Sterilize bottles and prepare formulas.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Provide for basic needs of children.
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Provide for basic needs of children.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Maintain client information or service records.
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Maintain client information or service records.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Keep records on individual children, including daily observations and information about activities, meals served, and medications administered.
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Keep records on individual children, including daily observations and information about activities, meals served, and medications administered.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Monitor health or behavior of people or animals.
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Monitor health or behavior of people or animals.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Identify signs of emotional or developmental problems in children and bring them to parent’s or guardian’s attention.
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Identify signs of emotional or developmental problems in children and bring them to parent’s or guardian’s attention.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Arrange items for use or display.
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Arrange items for use or display.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Organize and store toys and materials to ensure order in activity areas.
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Organize and store toys and materials to ensure order in activity areas.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Teach health or hygiene practices.
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Teach health or hygiene practices.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Instruct children in health and personal habits, such as eating, resting, and toilet habits.
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Instruct children in health and personal habits, such as eating, resting, and toilet habits.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Teach daily living skills or behaviors.
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Teach daily living skills or behaviors.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Discipline children and recommend or initiate other measures to control behavior, such as caring for own clothing and picking up toys and books.
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Discipline children and recommend or initiate other measures to control behavior, such as caring for own clothing and picking up toys and books.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Read to children and teach them simple painting, drawing, handicrafts, and songs.
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Read to children and teach them simple painting, drawing, handicrafts, and songs.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Help children with homework and school work.
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Help children with homework and school work.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Perform administrative or clerical tasks.
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Perform administrative or clerical tasks.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Perform general administrative tasks, such as taking attendance, editing internal paperwork, and making phone calls.
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Perform general administrative tasks, such as taking attendance, editing internal paperwork, and making phone calls.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Care for patients with mental illnesses.
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Care for patients with mental illnesses.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Provide care for mentally disturbed, delinquent, or handicapped children.
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Provide care for mentally disturbed, delinquent, or handicapped children.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Develop educational or training programs.
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Develop educational or training programs.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Create developmentally appropriate lesson plans.
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Create developmentally appropriate lesson plans.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Perform housekeeping duties.
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Perform housekeeping duties.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Perform housekeeping duties, such as laundry, cleaning, dish washing, and changing of linens.
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Perform housekeeping duties, such as laundry, cleaning, dish washing, and changing of linens.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Prepare foods or meals.
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Prepare foods or meals.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Assist in preparing food and serving meals and refreshments to children.
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Assist in preparing food and serving meals and refreshments to children.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Develop daily schedules for children or families.
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Develop daily schedules for children or families.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Regulate children’s rest periods.
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Regulate children’s rest periods.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Assign duties or work schedules to employees.
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Assign duties or work schedules to employees.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Perform general personnel functions, such as supervision, training, and scheduling.
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Perform general personnel functions, such as supervision, training, and scheduling.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Perform human resources activities.
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Perform human resources activities.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Perform general personnel functions, such as supervision, training, and scheduling.
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Perform general personnel functions, such as supervision, training, and scheduling.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Train service staff.
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Train service staff.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Perform general personnel functions, such as supervision, training, and scheduling.
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Perform general personnel functions, such as supervision, training, and scheduling.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Organize recreational activities or events.
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Organize recreational activities or events.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Organize and participate in recreational activities and outings, such as games and field trips.
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Organize and participate in recreational activities and outings, such as games and field trips.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Accompany individuals or groups to activities.
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Accompany individuals or groups to activities.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Accompany children to and from school, on outings, and to medical appointments.
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Accompany children to and from school, on outings, and to medical appointments.
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- Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
Related Instruction Content
Training Provider(s):
Little Learners Spectrum Center
12
RI hours
Apprentice Orientation and Miscellaneous Workplace Training Sessions and Meetings
Apprentice Orientation and Miscellaneous Workplace Training Sessions and Meetings
Missouri Licensing Requirements
12
Missouri Licensing Requirements
12
Ensure participants complete 12 hours of training covering First Aid and CPR, Safe Sleep Policies, Childcare Licensing Rules and Regulations, Fingerprints and Background Checks.
Core Childcare Training
Core Childcare Training
Conscious Discipline Strategies, Techniques for fostering emotional intelligence and self-regulation in children, Classroom Management, Strategies for creating a structured and nurturing learning environment, Behavior Teachings, Approaches to understanding and guiding child behavior effectively, Curriculum (Project Construct), Developmental assessments: how to assess children’s development in needs.
Child Development Associate (CDA) Credentialing
Child Development Associate (CDA) Credentialing
Partnership with T.E.A.C.H. Missouri. Participants will enroll in a yearlong program designed to provide comprehensive training and hands-on experience.
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