25-2011.00Apprenticeship

Preschool Teachers

Instruct preschool-aged students, following curricula or lesson plans, in activities designed to promote social, physical, and intellectual growth.

Career Cluster:Education
Job Family:Educational Instruction and Library
Job Zone:Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed
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Key Tasks

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

Skills

Speaking
75%
Instructing
75%
Active Listening
72%
Learning Strategies
72%
Coordination
69%
Reading Comprehension
69%
Social Perceptiveness
69%
Monitoring
69%
Critical Thinking
69%
Service Orientation
66%
Active Learning
53%
Judgment and Decision Making
53%
Time Management
50%
Persuasion
50%
Writing
50%
Complex Problem Solving
50%
Management of Personnel Resources
47%
Negotiation
47%
Systems Evaluation
44%
Systems Analysis
38%
Mathematics
25%
Management of Material Resources
25%
Quality Control Analysis
25%
Operations Analysis
19%
Troubleshooting
19%
Operations Monitoring
19%
Science
16%
Management of Financial Resources
13%
Technology Design
13%
Equipment Selection
10%
Operation and Control
0%
Programming
0%
Repairing
0%
Installation
0%
Equipment Maintenance
0%

Knowledge

Education and Training
75%
English Language
70%
Public Safety and Security
57%
Customer and Personal Service
55%
Psychology
52%
Administration and Management
42%
Administrative
39%
Sociology and Anthropology
36%
Therapy and Counseling
34%
Mathematics
33%
Communications and Media
33%
Medicine and Dentistry
31%
Law and Government
31%
Fine Arts
30%
Foreign Language
30%
Personnel and Human Resources
28%
Sales and Marketing
27%
Computers and Electronics
25%
Geography
24%
Philosophy and Theology
23%
Telecommunications
22%
History and Archeology
21%
Transportation
18%
Food Production
16%
Design
13%
Biology
13%
Mechanical
11%
Production and Processing
9%
Economics and Accounting
8%
Building and Construction
8%
Chemistry
8%
Engineering and Technology
7%
Physics
6%

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Abilities

Speech Clarity
75%
Oral Expression
75%
Oral Comprehension
75%
Problem Sensitivity
72%
Originality
69%
Speech Recognition
66%
Fluency of Ideas
66%
Written Comprehension
66%
Deductive Reasoning
63%
Near Vision
56%
Information Ordering
56%
Written Expression
53%
Far Vision
50%
Inductive Reasoning
50%
Category Flexibility
47%
Flexibility of Closure
47%
Time Sharing
47%
Selective Attention
47%
Memorization
44%
Trunk Strength
44%
Speed of Closure
44%
Perceptual Speed
41%
Visualization
41%
Auditory Attention
38%
Hearing Sensitivity
38%
Visual Color Discrimination
38%
Extent Flexibility
35%
Stamina
35%
Mathematical Reasoning
35%
Arm-Hand Steadiness
28%
Static Strength
28%
Finger Dexterity
28%
Multilimb Coordination
28%
Manual Dexterity
28%
Gross Body Coordination
28%
Depth Perception
25%
Dynamic Strength
25%
Gross Body Equilibrium
25%
Number Facility
25%
Speed of Limb Movement
16%
Control Precision
16%
Explosive Strength
10%
Sound Localization
10%
Reaction Time
6%
Wrist-Finger Speed
6%
Spatial Orientation
3%
Response Orientation
3%
Night Vision
0%
Peripheral Vision
0%
Glare Sensitivity
0%
Rate Control
0%
Dynamic Flexibility
0%

Work Activities

Assisting and Caring for Others
81%
Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships
76%
Getting Information
76%
Training and Teaching Others
69%
Thinking Creatively
67%
Developing and Building Teams
65%
Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
63%
Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
61%
Making Decisions and Solving Problems
61%
Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others
60%
Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
57%
Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards
56%
Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings
56%
Performing General Physical Activities
54%
Developing Objectives and Strategies
53%
Scheduling Work and Activities
52%
Coaching and Developing Others
51%
Documenting/Recording Information
51%
Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge
47%
Communicating with People Outside the Organization
45%
Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others
45%
Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People
45%
Performing for or Working Directly with the Public
44%
Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates
43%
Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials
42%
Monitoring and Controlling Resources
41%
Providing Consultation and Advice to Others
41%
Handling and Moving Objects
40%
Processing Information
39%
Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others
36%
Performing Administrative Activities
32%
Working with Computers
32%
Analyzing Data or Information
25%
Staffing Organizational Units
23%
Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information
22%
Selling or Influencing Others
21%
Repairing and Maintaining Electronic Equipment
10%
Controlling Machines and Processes
9%
Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment
8%
Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment
5%
Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment
1%

Work Context

Contact With Others

How much does this job require the worker to be in contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise) in order to perform it?

95%

Indoors, Environmentally Controlled

How often does this job require working indoors in an environmentally controlled environment (like a warehouse with air conditioning)?

84%

Work With or Contribute to a Work Group or Team

How important is it to work with or contribute to a work group or team in this job?

84%

Face-to-Face Discussions with Individuals and Within Teams

How frequently does your job require face-to-face discussions with individuals and within teams?

82%

Physical Proximity

To what extent does this job require the worker to perform job tasks physically close to other people?

76%

Coordinate or Lead Others in Accomplishing Work Activities

How important is it to coordinate or lead others (not as a supervisor or team leader) in accomplishing work activities in this job?

71%

Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results

What results do your decisions usually have on other people or the image or reputation or financial resources of your employer?

66%

Spend Time Standing

How much does this job require standing?

66%

Determine Tasks, Priorities and Goals

How much freedom does the worker have in determining the tasks, priorities, or goals of the job?

65%

Freedom to Make Decisions

How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer?

64%

Frequency of Decision Making

How often is the worker required to make decisions that affect other people, the financial resources, and/or the image and reputation of the organization?

64%

Exposed to Sounds, Noise Levels that are Distracting or Uncomfortable

How often does this job require working exposed to sounds and noise levels that are distracting or uncomfortable?

62%

Conflict Situations

How frequently are there conflict situations the employee has to face in this job?

61%

Importance of Being Exact or Accurate

How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job?

59%

Written Letters and Memos

How frequently does your job require written letters and memos?

59%

Deal With External Customers or the Public in General

How important is it to deal with external customers (as in retail sales) or the public in general (as in police work) in this job?

56%

Dealing With Unpleasant, Angry, or Discourteous People

How frequently does the worker have to deal with unpleasant, angry, or discourteous individuals as part of the job requirements?

54%

Outdoors, Exposed to All Weather Conditions

How often does this job require working outdoors, exposed to all weather conditions?

53%

Spend Time Walking or Running

How much does this job require walking or running?

53%

Consequence of Error

How serious would the result usually be if the worker made a mistake that was not easily correctable?

52%

Exposed to Disease or Infections

How often does this job require exposure to disease/infections?

52%

Spend Time Kneeling, Crouching, Stooping, or Crawling

How much does this job require kneeling, crouching, stooping or crawling?

52%

Time Pressure

How often does this job require the worker to meet strict deadlines?

52%

Health and Safety of Other Workers

How much responsibility is there for the health and safety of others in this job?

51%

Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls

How much does this job require using your hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls?

50%

Spend Time Bending or Twisting Your Body

How much does this job require bending or twisting your body?

49%

Telephone Conversations

How often do you have telephone conversations in this job?

44%

Work Outcomes and Results of Other Workers

How responsible is the worker for work outcomes and results of other workers?

43%

Public Speaking

How frequently does your job require public speaking (one speaker with an audience)?

38%

Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions

How much does this job require making repetitive motions?

38%

Level of Competition

To what extent does this job require the worker to compete or to be aware of competitive pressures?

37%

Duration of Typical Work Week

Number of hours typically worked in one week.

32%

E-Mail

How frequently does your job require you to use E-mail?

32%

Spend Time Keeping or Regaining Balance

How much does this job require keeping or regaining your balance?

28%

Spend Time Sitting

How much does this job require sitting?

27%

Exposed to Minor Burns, Cuts, Bites, or Stings

How often does this job require exposure to minor burns, cuts, bites, or stings?

26%

Dealing with Violent or Physically Aggressive People

How frequently does this job require the worker to deal with physical aggression of violent individuals?

25%

Importance of Repeating Same Tasks

How important are continuous, repetitive, physical activities (like key entry) or mental activities (like checking entries in a ledger) to performing this job?

25%

Exposed to Very Hot or Cold Temperatures

How often does this job require working in very hot (above 90 F degrees) or very cold (below 32 F degrees) temperatures?

24%

Outdoors, Under Cover

How often does this job require working outdoors, under cover (like in an open shed)?

21%

Exposed to Extremely Bright or Inadequate Lighting Conditions

How often does this job require working in extremely bright or inadequate lighting conditions?

16%

Degree of Automation

How automated is the job?

14%

Exposed to Contaminants

How often does this job require working exposed to contaminants (such as pollutants, gases, dust or odors)?

14%

Indoors, Not Environmentally Controlled

How often does this job require working in an environment that is not environmentally controlled (like a warehouse without air conditioning)?

12%

In an Enclosed Vehicle or Operate Enclosed Equipment

How often does this job require working in a closed vehicle or operate enclosed equipment (like a car)?

10%

Exposed to Cramped Work Space, Awkward Positions

How often does this job require working in cramped work spaces that requires getting into awkward positions?

4%

Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets

How often does this job require wearing common protective or safety equipment such as safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hearing protection, hard hats or life-jackets?

3%

Exposed to Whole Body Vibration

How often does this job require exposure to whole body vibration (like operating a jackhammer or earth moving equipment)?

1%

Exposed to Hazardous Conditions

How often does this job require exposure to hazardous conditions?

0%

Exposed to Hazardous Equipment

How often does this job require exposure to hazardous equipment?

0%

Exposed to High Places

How often does this job require exposure to high places?

0%

Exposed to Radiation

How often does this job require exposure to radiation?

0%

In an Open Vehicle or Operating Equipment

How often does this job require working in an open vehicle or operating equipment (like a tractor)?

0%

Pace Determined by Speed of Equipment

How important is it to this job that the pace is determined by the speed of equipment or machinery? (This does not refer to keeping busy at all times on this job.)

0%

Spend Time Climbing Ladders, Scaffolds, or Poles

How much does this job require climbing ladders, scaffolds, poles, etc.?

0%

Wear Specialized Protective or Safety Equipment such as Breathing Apparatus, Safety Harness, Full Protection Suits, or Radiation Protection

How often does this job require wearing specialized protective or safety equipment such as breathing apparatus, safety harness, full protection suits, or radiation protection?

0%

Work Schedules

How regular are the work schedules for this job?

0%

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

29%

Bachelor's degree

17%

Some college, no degree

12%

Interests

Social

Work involves helping, teaching, advising, assisting, or providing service to others. Social occupations are often associated with social, health care, personal service, teaching/education, or religious activities.

100

Artistic

Work involves creating original visual artwork, performances, written works, food, or music for a variety of media, or applying artistic principles to the design of various objects and materials. Artistic occupations are often associated with visual arts,

51

Conventional

Work involves following procedures and regulations to organize information or data, typically in a business setting. Conventional occupations are often associated with office work, accounting, mathematics/statistics, information technology, finance, or hum

43

Investigative

Work involves studying and researching non-living objects, living organisms, disease or other forms of impairment, or human behavior. Investigative occupations are often associated with physical, life, medical, or social sciences, and can be found in the f

30

Realistic

Work involves designing, building, or repairing of equipment, materials, or structures, engaging in physical activity, or working outdoors. Realistic occupations are often associated with engineering, mechanics and electronics, construction, woodworking, t

29

Enterprising

Work involves managing, negotiating, marketing, or selling, typically in a business setting, or leading or advising people in political and legal situations. Enterprising occupations are often associated with business initiatives, sales, marketing/advertis

27

Work Styles

Cooperation
94%
Dependability
88%
Empathy
86%
Optimism
84%
Social Orientation
83%
Sincerity
78%
Integrity
74%
Self-Control
71%
Stress Tolerance
64%
Adaptability
63%
Humility
59%
Perseverance
53%
Attention to Detail
50%
Initiative
48%
Self-Confidence
47%
Leadership Orientation
45%
Innovation
43%
Achievement Orientation
40%
Tolerance for Ambiguity
40%
Cautiousness
33%
Intellectual Curiosity
29%

Work Values

Relationships
89%
Achievement
61%
Independence
56%
Support
45%
Working Conditions
45%
Recognition
33%

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