Attend to children at schools, businesses, private households, and childcare institutions. Perform a variety of tasks, such as dressing, feeding, bathing, and overseeing play.
<ul><li>Maintain a safe play environment.</li><li>Observe and monitor children's play activities.</li><li>Communicate with children's parents or guardians about daily activities, behaviors, and related issues.</li><li>Support children's emotional and social development, encouraging understanding of others and positive self-concepts.</li><li>Care for children in institutional setting, such as group homes, nursery schools, private businesses, or schools for the handicapped.</li><li>Sanitize toys and play equipment.</li><li>Dress children and change diapers.</li><li>Keep records on individual children, including daily observations and information about activities, meals served, and medications administered.</li><li>Identify signs of emotional or developmental problems in children and bring them to parents' or guardians' attention.</li><li>Instruct children in health and personal habits, such as eating, resting, and toilet habits.</li><li>Organize and store toys and materials to ensure order in activity areas.</li><li>Perform general administrative tasks, such as taking attendance, editing internal paperwork, and making phone calls.</li><li>Perform housekeeping duties, such as laundry, cleaning, dish washing, and changing of linens.</li><li>Create developmentally appropriate lesson plans.</li><li>Read to children and teach them simple painting, drawing, handicrafts, and songs.</li><li>Assist in preparing food and serving meals and refreshments to children.</li><li>Discipline children and recommend or initiate other measures to control behavior, such as caring for own clothing and picking up toys and books.</li><li>Regulate children's rest periods.</li><li>Organize and participate in recreational activities and outings, such as games and field trips.</li></ul>