Description
Instruct preschool-aged students, following curricula or lesson plans, in activities designed to promote social, physical, and intellectual growth.
- • Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order.
- • Read books to entire classes or to small groups.
- • Organize and lead activities designed to promote physical, mental, and social development, such as games, arts and crafts, music, storytelling, and field trips.
- • Observe and evaluate children's performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
- • 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.
- • Enforce all administration policies and rules governing students.
- • Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.
- • Teach proper eating habits and personal hygiene.
- • Serve meals and snacks in accordance with nutritional guidelines.
- • Assimilate arriving children to the school environment by greeting them, helping them remove outerwear, and selecting activities of interest to them.
- • Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs and interests.
- • Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to children.
- • Arrange indoor and outdoor space to facilitate creative play, motor-skill activities, and safety.
- • Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.
- • Prepare reports on students and activities as required by administration.
- • Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.
- • Organize and label materials and display students' work in a manner appropriate for their ages and perceptual skills.
- • Attend professional meetings, educational conferences, and teacher training workshops to maintain and improve professional competence.
- • Confer with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons promoting learning, following approved curricula.
- • Supervise, evaluate, and plan assignments for teacher assistants and volunteers.
- • Collaborate with other teachers and administrators in the development, evaluation, and revision of preschool programs.
- • Attend staff meetings and serve on committees as required.
- • Meet with other professionals to discuss individual students' needs and progress.
- • Plan and supervise class projects, field trips, visits by guests, or other experiential activities and guide students in learning from those activities.
- • Select, store, order, issue, and inventory classroom equipment, materials, and supplies.
- • Provide students with disabilities with assistive devices, supportive technology, and assistance accessing facilities, such as restrooms.
- • Perform administrative duties, such as hall and cafeteria monitoring and bus loading and unloading.
- • Administer tests to help determine children's developmental levels, needs, and potential.
- • Prepare and implement remedial programs for students requiring extra help.
- • Provide a variety of materials and resources for children to explore, manipulate, and use, both in learning activities and in imaginative play.
- • Attend to children's basic needs by feeding them, dressing them, and changing their diapers.
- • Teach basic skills, such as color, shape, number and letter recognition, personal hygiene, and social skills.
- • Demonstrate activities to children.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
