Early years teacher
Code 2342.1
Early years teachers instruct students, primarily young children, in basic subjects and creative play with the aim of developing their social and intellectual skills in an informal way in preparation for future formal learning. They create lesson plans, possibly in accordance with a fixed curriculum, for an entire class or smaller groups and test the students on the content. These lesson plans, based on basic subjects, can include the instruction of number, letter, and colour recognition, days of the week, categorisation of animals and transport vehicles etc. Early years teachers also supervise students outside the classroom on school grounds and enforce rules of behaviour there as well.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- monitor children's physical development
- learning difficulties
- curriculum objectives
- kindergarten school procedures
Skills and competences
- apply teaching strategies
- apply intercultural teaching strategies
- support children's wellbeing
- assist children in developing personal skills
- support the positiveness of youths
- assist students with equipment
- implement care programmes for children
- demonstrate when teaching
- teach kindergarten class content
- assess the development of youth
- facilitate teamwork between students
- guarantee students' safety
- manage student relationships
- maintain students' discipline
- observar progresos de estudiantes
- prepare lesson content
- assist students in their learning
Transversal competences
- adapt teaching to student's capabilities
- encourage students to acknowledge their achievements
- give constructive feedback
- handle children's problems
- perform classroom management
- teamwork principles
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