Preschool Helper

**Additional Skills**:

- Assist early childhood educators or supervisors in keeping records
- Attend staff meetings to discuss progress and problems of children
- Plan and organize activities for school-age children in child-care programs before and after regular school hours
- Supervise and co-ordinate activities of other early childhood educators and early childhood educator assistants

**Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities**:

- Attention to detail
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking

**Personal Suitability**:

- Effective interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Team player
- Interpersonal awareness
- Values and ethics
- Reliability
- Punctuality

**Early Childhood Educators Specific Skills**:

- Develop and implement child-care programs that support and promote the physical, cognitive, emotional and social development of children
- Lead activities by telling or reading stories, teaching songs and taking children to local points of interest
- provide opportunities to express creativity through the media of art, dramatic play, music and physical activity
- Guide and assist children in the development of proper eating, dressing and toilet habits
- Observe children for signs of potential learning or behavioural problems and prepare reports for parents, guardians or supervisor
- Assess the abilities, interests and needs of children and discuss progress or problems with parents and other staff members
- Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with co-workers and community service providers working with children