Washburn Tech

On-the-job Training

• Teach life skills
  • Teach basic skills, such as color, shape, number and letter recognition, personal hygiene, and social skills.
  • Teach proper eating habits and personal hygiene.
• Provide for basic needs of children
  • Serve meals and snacks in accordance with nutritional guidelines.
  • Attend to children’s basic needs by feeding them, dressing them, and changing their diapers.
  • Assimilate arriving children to the school environment by greeting them, helping them remove outerwear, and selecting activities of interest to them.
• Set up classroom materials or equipment
  • Provide a variety of materials and resources for children to explore, manipulate, and use, both in learning activities and in imaginative play.
  • Clean tables before and after meals or after table activities.
  • Sweep and spot mop floors after meal or messy activities.
• Establish rules or policies governing student behavior
  • Enforce rules for behavior and procedures
• Modify teaching methods or materials to accommodate student needs
  • Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs and interests.
• Discuss student progress with parents or guardians
  • Post updates to Procare on children’s meals, potty accidents, activities, and/or reply to parent messages.
• Discuss problems or issues with supervisors
  • 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 other professionals to discuss individual students' needs and progress.
• Monitor student behavior, social development, or health
  • Identify children showing signs of emotional, developmental, or health-related problems and discuss them with supervisors, parents or guardians, and child development specialists.
  • Observe and evaluate children's performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
• Plan educational activities
  • Assist the lead teacher on activities designed to promote physical, mental, and social development, such as games, arts and crafts, music, storytelling, and field trips.
• Evaluate student work
  • Observe and evaluate children's performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
• Maintain student records
  • Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.
• Monitor student performance
  • Observe and evaluate children's performance, behavior, social development, and physical health
• Read to Students
  • Read books to entire classes or to small groups
• Develop instructional objectives
  • Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to children.
• Apply multiple teaching methods
  • Demonstrate activities to children
• Arrange childcare or educational setting to ensure physical safety of children
  • Arrange indoor and outdoor space to facilitate creative play, motor-skill activities, and safety.
• Enforce rules or policies governing student behavior
  • Enforce all administration policies and rules governing students
• Develop strategies or programs for students with special needs.
  • Prepare and implement remedial programs for students requiring extra help
• Collaborate with other teaching professionals to develop educational programs.
  • Confer with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons promoting learning, following approved curricula.
  • Collaborate with other teachers and administrators in the development, evaluation, and revision of preschool programs.
• Assist students with special educational needs
  • Provide disabled students with assistive devices, supportive technology, and assistance accessing facilities, such as restrooms
• Prepare reports detailing student activities or performance
  • Prepare reports on students and activities as required by administration.
• Plan experiential learning activities
  • Plan and supervise class projects, field trips, visits by guests, or other experiential activities and guide students in learning from those activities.