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Job Description

Instruct preschool-aged children in activities designed to promote social, physical, and intellectual growth needed for primary school in preschool, day care center, or other child development facility. May be required to hold State certification.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 25-2011.00
The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 33,300.00
The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 16.00
Currently, there are 385,550 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education”.

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Tasks for “Pre-Kindergarten Teacher (Pre-K Teacher)”

Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.
Attend professional meetings, educational conferences, and teacher training workshops to maintain and improve professional competence.
Provide a variety of materials and resources for children to explore, manipulate, and use, both in learning activities and in imaginative play.
Arrange indoor and outdoor space to facilitate creative play, motor-skill activities, and safety.
Organize and label materials and display students' work in a manner appropriate for their ages and perceptual skills.
Teach proper eating habits and personal hygiene.
Prepare reports on students and activities as required by administration.
Observe and evaluate children's performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
Read books to entire classes or to small groups.
Organize and lead activities designed to promote physical, mental, and social development, such as games, arts and crafts, music, storytelling, and field trips.
Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order.
Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.
Demonstrate activities to children.
Provide disabled students with assistive devices, supportive technology, and assistance accessing facilities, such as restrooms.
Select, store, order, issue, and inventory classroom equipment, materials, and supplies.
Serve meals and snacks in accordance with nutritional guidelines.
Administer tests to help determine children's developmental levels, needs, and potential.
Supervise, evaluate, and plan assignments for teacher assistants and volunteers.
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 parents and guardians to discuss their children's progress and needs, determine their priorities for their children, and suggest ways that they can promote learning and development.
Confer with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons promoting learning, following approved curricula.
Attend staff meetings and serve on committees as required.
Attend to children's basic needs by feeding them, dressing them, and changing their diapers.
Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs and interests.
Teach basic skills, such as color, shape, number and letter recognition, personal hygiene, and social skills.
Assimilate arriving children to the school environment by greeting them, helping them remove outerwear, and selecting activities of interest to them.
Meet with other professionals to discuss individual students' needs and progress.
Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to children.
Prepare and implement remedial programs for students requiring extra help.
Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.
Plan and supervise class projects, field trips, visits by guests, or other experiential activities and guide students in learning from those activities.
Perform administrative duties, such as hall and cafeteria monitoring and bus loading and unloading.
Collaborate with other teachers and administrators in the development, evaluation, and revision of preschool programs.
Enforce all administration policies and rules governing students.

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