Description
Attend to children at schools, businesses, private households, and childcare institutions. Perform a variety of tasks, such as dressing, feeding, bathing, and overseeing play.
- • 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.
- • Discipline children and recommend or initiate other measures to control behavior, such as caring for own clothing and picking up toys and books.
- • Identify signs of emotional or developmental problems in children and bring them to parents' or guardians' attention.
- • Observe and monitor children's play activities.
- • Keep records on individual children, including daily observations and information about activities, meals served, and medications administered.
- • Instruct children in health and personal habits, such as eating, resting, and toilet habits.
- • Read to children and teach them simple painting, drawing, handicrafts, and songs.
- • Organize and store toys and materials to ensure order in activity areas.
- • Sterilize bottles and prepare formulas.
- • Dress children and change diapers.
- • Help children with homework and school work.
- • Perform housekeeping duties, such as laundry, cleaning, dish washing, and changing of linens.
- • Accompany children to and from school, on outings, and to medical appointments.
- • Maintain a safe play environment.
- • Communicate with children's parents or guardians about daily activities, behaviors, and related issues.
- • Assist in preparing food and serving meals and refreshments to children.
- • Create developmentally appropriate lesson plans.
- • Regulate children's rest periods.
- • Perform general administrative tasks, such as taking attendance, editing internal paperwork, and making phone calls.
- • Organize and participate in recreational activities and outings, such as games and field trips.
- • Provide care for children with physical, developmental, or mental health disabilities.
- • Perform general personnel functions, such as supervision, training, and scheduling.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
