Childcare Worker

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

O*NET reports this occupation under titles such as: Caregiver; Child Care Worker; Child Caregiver; Childcare Provider; Childcare Worker; Daycare Teacher; Daycare Worker; Infant Teacher; Toddler Teacher

Tasks

• Maintain a safe play environment.
• Observe and monitor children's play activities.
• Communicate with children's parents or guardians about daily activities, behaviors, and related issues.
• Support children's emotional and social development, encouraging understanding of others and positive self-concepts.
• Care for children in institutional setting, such as group homes, nursery schools, private businesses, or schools for people with disabilities.
• Sanitize toys and play equipment.
• Dress children and change diapers.
• Keep records on individual children, including daily observations and information about activities, meals served, and medications administered.
• 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.
• Organize and store toys and materials to ensure order in activity areas.
• Perform general administrative tasks, such as taking attendance, editing internal paperwork, and making phone calls.
• Create developmentally appropriate lesson plans.
• Perform housekeeping duties, such as laundry, cleaning, dish washing, and changing of linens.
• Read to children and teach them simple painting, drawing, handicrafts, and songs.

Knowledge

• Customer and Personal Service
• English Language
• Education and Training
• Public Safety and Security
• Psychology

Skills

• Monitoring
• Active Listening
• Speaking
• Critical Thinking
• Reading Comprehension
• Writing
• Active Learning
• Learning Strategies

Abilities

• Oral Comprehension
• Oral Expression
• Problem Sensitivity
• Written Comprehension
• Deductive Reasoning
• Far Vision
• Speech Recognition
• Written Expression
• Fluency of Ideas
• Inductive Reasoning
• Information Ordering
• Category Flexibility
• Selective Attention
• Time Sharing
• Near Vision
• Speech Clarity