Childcare Workers

Attend to children at schools, businesses, private households, and childcare institutions. Perform a variety of tasks, such as dressing, feeding, bathing, and overseeing play.

Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Realistic

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

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Observe and monitor children's play activities.

Communicate with children's parents or guardians about daily activities, behaviors, and related issues.

Support children's emotional and social development, encouraging understanding of others and positive self-concepts.

Care for children in institutional setting, such as group homes, nursery schools, private businesses, or schools for the handicapped.

Keep records on individual children, including daily observations and information about activities, meals served, and medications administered.

Identify signs of emotional or developmental problems in children and bring them to parents' or guardians' attention.

Instruct children in health and personal habits, such as eating, resting, and toilet habits.

Arletta Brown

Family Childcare Owner

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Arletta Brown

Family Childcare Owner

Education

Career

Career Roadmap

My work combines:

My work combines:

Education

Environment & Nature

Teaching / Mentoring

Advice for Getting Started

Recommended Education

My career is related to what I studied. I'd recommend the path I took:

Hurdles

The Noise I Shed

From Society in General:

Interviewed By

Anonymous Student

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