Employment Percentage
-5.33687762
SOC ID
25-2011
SOC Title
Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education
ONET ID
25-2011.00
ONET Concat ID
25201100
Median Salary
32361.69
EMSI Interest Area Term
Ed Level High School
28.75
Ed Level Certificate
10.34
Ed Level Some College
12.17
Ed Level Associates
11.55
Ed Level Bachelors
25.139999
Ed Level Masters
12.04
Ed Level Doctors
0
Typical Ed Level
a high school diploma or less
Career Description
Instruct preschool-aged students, following curricula or lesson plans, in activities designed to promote social, physical, and intellectual growth.
Core Tasks
- Teach basic skills, such as color, shape, number and letter recognition, personal hygiene, and social skills.
- Provide a variety of materials and resources for children to explore, manipulate, and use, both in learning activities and in imaginative play.
- Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order.
- Serve meals and snacks in accordance with nutritional guidelines.
- Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs and interests.
- 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.
- Organize and lead activities designed to promote physical, mental, and social development, such as games, arts and crafts, music, storytelling, and field trips.
- Observe and evaluate children's performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
- Identify children showing signs of emotional, developmental, or health-related problems and discuss them with supervisors, parents or guardians, and child development specialists.
- Assimilate arriving children to the school environment by greeting them, helping them remove outerwear, and selecting activities of interest to them.
- Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.
- Read books to entire classes or to small groups.
- Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.
- 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.
- Attend professional meetings, educational conferences, and teacher training workshops to maintain and improve professional competence.
- Confer with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons promoting learning, following approved curricula.
- Prepare reports on students and activities as required by administration.
- Organize and label materials and display students' work in a manner appropriate for their ages and perceptual skills.
- 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.
- Meet with other professionals to discuss individual students' needs and progress.
- Supervise, evaluate, and plan assignments for teacher assistants and volunteers.
- Select, store, order, issue, and inventory classroom equipment, materials, and supplies.
- Administer tests to help determine children's developmental levels, needs, and potential.
- Attend staff meetings and serve on committees as required.
Start Annual Earnings
26290.1
Top Annual Earnings
65007.5
EMSI Career Title Slug
preschool-teacher-except-special-education