Childcare Workers

Childcare Workers typically perform the following 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. • Assist in preparing food and serving meals and refreshments to children. • Discipline children and recommend or initiate other measures to control behavior, such as caring for own clothing and picking up toys and books. • Regulate children's rest periods. • Organize and participate in recreational activities and outings, such as games and field trips. • Sterilize bottles and prepare formulas.