Program overview
As a graduate of this program, you will:
- Communicate with parents daily and in formal conferences
- Develop and maintain environments where children thrive
- Guide children individually and in groups
- Identify and correct safety hazards
- Maintain records
- Observe and assess children
- Plan and implement activities
- Provide nutritious snacks
- Refer families and children with special needs to appropriate community resources
- Supervise assistants or other teachers
Graduates of this program are hired by:
- Childcare centers
- Head Start programs
- Early Head Start programs
- Parent cooperative preschools
- Parents hire graduates as nannies
- Private preschools and kindergartens
- Public schools hire graduates as teaching assistants
- Resource and referral agencies
- Start their in-home childcare and preschool programs