NKPD code: 2342
Early childhood educators promote the social, physical and intellectual development of preschool children through educational activities and play. Early childhood educators perform the following main tasks: • planning and organising individual and group activities designed to facilitate the development of children's motor and social skills, self-confidence and understanding; • promoting children's language development through storytelling, role play, songs and informal conversation and discussion; • showing children activities that provide opportunities for creative expression through art, dramatic play, music and physical activity; • observing children to record their development and to detect signs of developmental, emotional and health problems, together with parents; • monitoring and identifying children's needs for healthy nutrition, care and safety, and factors that may hinder their development; • supervising children's activities to safely resolve conflicts that arise between them; • instilling habits of proper dressing, eating and personal hygiene; • discussing children's development or problems with their parents and other staff members, and taking appropriate action to resolve problems and refer to other specialists; • establishing and maintaining contact with other professionals who work with young children. Examples of occupations in this unit group: – Teacher, kindergarten – Teacher, music in kindergarten Excludes: – Manager, child care facility – 1341 – Director, kindergarten – 1345