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On-the-job Training

• Arrange childcare or educational settings to ensure physical safety of children.
  • Maintain a safe play environment.
  • Monitor activities of individuals to ensure safety or compliance with rules.
• Discuss child development and behavior with parents or guardians.
  • Communicate with children's parents or guardians about daily activities, behaviors, and related issues.
  • Identify signs of emotional or developmental problems in children and bring them to parents or guardians attention.
  • Monitor health or behavior of people or animals.
• Assist individuals with special needs.
  • Care for children in institutional setting, such as group homes, nursery schools, private businesses, or schools for the handicapped.
  • Provide care for mentally disturbed, delinquent, or handicapped children.
• Provide counsel, comfort, or encouragement to individuals or families.
  • Support children's emotional and social development, encouraging understanding of others and positive self-concepts.
• Clean tools or equipment.
  • Sanitize toys and play equipment.
• Provide for basic needs of children.
  • Assist in preparing food and serving meals and refreshments to children.
• Maintain client information or service records.
  • Keep records on individual children, including daily observations and information about activities, meals served, and medications administered.
• Arrange items for use or display.
  • Organize and store toys and materials to ensure order in activity areas.
• Teach daily living skills or behaviors.
  • Instruct children in health and personal habits, such as eating, resting, and toilet habits.
  • Discipline children and recommend or initiate other measures to control behavior, such as caring for own clothing and picking up toys and books.
  • Read to children and teach them simple painting, drawing, handicrafts, and songs.
  • Help children with homework and school work.
• Perform administrative or clerical tasks.
  • Perform general administrative tasks, such as taking attendance, editing internal paperwork, and making phone calls.
• Develop educational or training programs.
  • Create developmentally appropriate lesson plans.
• Perform housekeeping duties.
  • Perform housekeeping duties, including diaper changing area, cleaning work areas, dish washing, and changing of linens.
• Develop daily schedules for children or families.
  • Regulate children's rest periods.
• Perform human resources activities.
  • Perform general personnel functions, such as supervision, training, and scheduling.
• Organize recreational activities or events.
  • Organize and participate in recreational activities and outings, such as games and field trips.
  • Accompany children to and from school, on outings, and to medical appointments.