Early Childhood Education Specialist 1
Competency-based
ONET: 39-9011.00
2
Years
39
Skills
335h
Related instructions
Classroom instruction topics
- Early Childhood Education - Theory to Practice
- Partners in Caring - Families and Caregivers
- Collaborating with Others to Support Inclusion
- Foundations of Health, Wellness, and Safety
- Health and Safety Orientation
- Your Professional Development Portfolio
- Caring for Infants, Toddlers & Their Families
- Links to Learning: Curriculum Planning in Out-of-School Time
- Maine's Early Learning and Development Standards
- Infant and Toddler Maine Early Learning and Development Standards
- Working with School-Age Children and Youth
- Social and Emotional Learning Birth to Age 5
- Introduction to Infant Mental Health
- Creating Equitable Early Learning Communities
- Positive Supports & Challenging Behavior
- Creating Inclusive Youth Development Settings
- Other training approved by Dept. of Health and Human Services, Office of Child and Family Services
On-the-job training
- Principles of Child Growth and Development
- Nurtures relationships with children by valuing each child's individuality
- Assists in maintaining an inclusive environment for all children; carries out activities that support children's IFSP/IEP goals
- Supervises and facilitates children's involvement in all learning environments using a variety of modalities
- Maintains a positive classroom climate and is responsive to child perspectives
- Assures continuity of care, spending time engaging with each child each day in addition to care routines.
- Social and Emotional Development
- Provides intentional activities to support children's development of a positive self-image, including the understanding of similarities and differences
- Encourages children to express themselves in safe and appropriate ways to promote self-regulation
- Engages in adult-child interactions, encouraging self-help skills and encouraging peer interactions
- Physical and Intellectual Development
- Models physical activity by being physically active, both indoors and outdoors
- Provides opportunities to acquire language and literacy skills through interactions with others, materials and the environment
- Promotes children's higher order thinking skills through the use of scaffolding, self and parallel talk, concept development, advanced language and open-ended questioning
- Observing and Recording Children's Behavior
- Maintains clear and consistent behavioral expectations and minimizes transitions by maintaining classroom organization
- Assists in curriculum planning sessions to develop clear learning objectives for optimal learning and assists in documenting weekly learning plans
- Assists in using standardized and authentic assessment data to create learning opportunities to advance children's development and goals
- Assists in maintaining a portfolio of each child's progress
- Safe and Healthy Learning Environment
- Assists in assuring healthy meals and meal attendance are in accordance with Child Care Licensing, Let's Go! 5-2-1-0 and USDA's CACFP and Dept. of Education guidelines
- Models healthy eating habits and tooth brushing
- Follows cleaning, sanitation and disinfectant procedures to promote healthy habits within the classroom environment
- Assists in promoting protective factors to prevent child abuse and neglect; identifies and refers families to Department of Health and Human Services' Child Protective Services
- Assists with completion, accuracy and appropriate follow-up of Health & Safety Checklists
- Assists with required emergency procedures
- Relationships with Families
- Demonstrates and recognizes parents as children's first and most important teachers
- Connects with families and children to make them feel welcomed, safe and respected
- Views children in the context of their family and their culture
- Demonstrates respectful interest in learning about each family's values, beliefs, faith traditions, cultural influences, family structure and circumstances
- Effective Program Operation
- Maintains cooperative, respectful interactions and supports the employer's policies
- Contributes to effective, purpose and respectful team communications to promote continuous program involvement
- Demonstrates understanding of and on-going compliance with Child Care Licensing and other regulations or requirements
- Professionalism
- Communicates positively and effectively using appropriate verbal, nonverbal and written messages
- Demonstrates effective customer service assuring respect for families' culture and language
- Assures personal safety and actively communicates with supervisor
- Establishes and maintains professional boundaries
- Adheres to employer and collaborative partner policies, procedures and guidance
- Promotes community partnerships and initiatives
- Effectively utilizes supervisory support and technical resources to improve competence
- Assesses self, values and ethics as they impact with work with families
- Completes mandated trainings and maintains required certifications
- Seeks opportunities for ongoing professional growth; implements to improve practice and share with colleagues as appropriate
- Demonstrates progress toward annual evaluation goals
- Training
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