Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education
Teach academic and social skills to kindergarten students.
What you’d do
- Establish and enforce rules for behavior and policies and procedures to maintain order among students.
- Prepare children for later grades by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks.
- Instruct students individually and in groups, adapting teaching methods to meet students' varying needs and interests.
- Teach basic skills, such as color, shape, number and letter recognition, personal hygiene, and social skills.
- Demonstrate activities to children.
- Read books to entire classes or to small groups.
- Guide and counsel students with adjustment or academic problems or special academic interests.
- Observe and evaluate children's performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
Skills that matter
- Instructing
- Social Perceptiveness
- Active Listening
- Learning Strategies
- Monitoring
- Speaking
How to get there
Considerable preparation: most need a four-year bachelor's degree
Also called
- Bilingual Kindergarten Teacher
- Classroom Teacher
- Kinder Teacher
- Teacher
- Educator
- Instructor
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