Early Childhood Educator

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:

• Organize and lead activities designed to promote physical, mental, and social development, such as games, arts and crafts, music, storytelling, and field trips.  
• Teach basic skills, such as color, shape, number and letter recognition, personal hygiene, and social skills.  
• Observe and evaluate children's performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.  
• Attend to children's basic needs by feeding them, dressing them, and changing their diapers.  
• Provide a variety of materials and resources for children to explore, manipulate, and use, both in learning activities and in imaginative play.  
• Serve meals and snacks in accordance with nutritional guidelines.  
• Teach proper eating habits and personal hygiene.  
• Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.  
• Enforce all administration policies and rules governing students.  
• 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.
• Perform other duties as assigned.