Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education

No automatable tasks identified for this role — its real, individually-assessed tasks consistently read as durable (95%).

• Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.

• Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to children.
• Enforce all administration policies and rules governing students.
• Provide a variety of materials and resources for children to explore, manipulate, and use, both in learning activities and in imaginative play.
• Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.
• Observe and evaluate children's performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
• Demonstrate activities to children.
• Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order.
• 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.
• Arrange indoor and outdoor space to facilitate creative play, motor-skill activities, and safety.
• Read books to entire classes or to small groups.
• Assimilate arriving children to the school environment by greeting them, helping them remove outerwear, and selecting activities of interest to them.
• Attend to children's basic needs by feeding them, dressing them, and changing their diapers.
• Serve meals and snacks in accordance with nutritional guidelines.
• Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.
• Identify children showing signs of emotional, developmental, or health-related problems and discuss them with supervisors, parents or guardians, and child development specialists.
• Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs and interests.
• Teach proper eating habits and personal hygiene.
• Teach basic skills, such as color, shape, number and letter recognition, personal hygiene, and social skills.
• Organize and lead activities designed to promote physical, mental, and social development, such as games, arts and crafts, music, storytelling, and field trips.