Washburn Tech

On-the-job Training

• Teach life skills
  • Teach basic skills, such as color, shape, number and letter recognition, personal hygiene, and social skills.
  • Teach proper eating habits and personal hygiene.
• Provide for basic needs of children
  • Serve meals and snacks in accordance with nutritional guidelines.
  • Attend to children’s basic needs by supervising snack time and assisting with toileting needs as necessary.
  • Assimilate arriving children to the school environment by greeting them, helping them remove outerwear, and selecting activities of interest to them.
• Set up classroom materials or equipment
  • 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.
  • Arrange indoor and outdoor space to facilitate creative play, motor-skill activities, and safety.
• Establish rules or policies governing student behavior
  • Enforce rules for behavior and procedures
• Modify teaching methods or materials to accommodate student needs.
  • Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs and interests.
• Discuss student progress with parents or guardians
  • With the support of the journey worker, 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.
  • With the support of the journey worker, help to identify children showing signs of emotional, developmental, or health-related problems and discuss them with supervisors, parents or guardians, and child development specialists.
• Discuss problems or issues with supervisors
  • With the support of the journey worker, help to identify children showing signs of emotional, developmental, or health-related problems and discuss them with supervisors, parents or guardians, and child development specialists.
  • With the journey worker, meet and collaborate with other professionals to discuss individual students' needs and progress.
• Monitor student behavior, social development, or health
  • With the support of the journey worker, help to identify children showing signs of emotional, developmental, or health-related problems and discuss them with supervisors, parents or guardians, and child development specialists.
  • In coordination with the journey worker and other team members, observe and evaluate children's performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
• Plan educational activities
  • Organize and lead activities designed to promote physical, mental, and social development, such as games, arts and crafts, music, storytelling, and field trips.
  • Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.
• Evaluate student work
  • Observe and evaluate children's performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
• Maintain student records
  • Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.
• Monitor student performance
  • Observe and evaluate children's performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
• Read to Students
  • Read books to entire classes or to small groups
• Develop instructional objectives
  • With the support of the journey worker, establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to children.
• Apply multiple teaching methods
  • Demonstrate activities to children
• Arrange childcare or educational setting to ensure physical safety of children
  • Arrange indoor and outdoor space to facilitate creative play, motor-skill activities, and safety.
• Enforce rules or policies governing student behavior
  • Enforce all administration policies and rules governing students
• Develop strategies or programs for students with special needs.
  • With the support of the journey worker and team members, prepare and implement needed supports for students requiring extra help.
• Collaborate with other teaching professionals to develop educational programs.
  • Confer with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons promoting learning, following approved curricula.
  • Collaborate with other teachers and administrators in the development, evaluation, and revision of preschool programs.
• Assist students with special educational needs.
  • Support the process of providing students with special needs with assistive devices, supportive technology, and assistance accessing facilities, such as restrooms.
• Prepare reports detailing student activities or performance
  • With support of the journeyworker, prepare reports on students and activities as required by administration.
• Plan experiential learning activities
  • Plan and supervise class projects, field trips, visits by guests, or other experiential activities and guide students in learning from those activities.
• Supervise school or student activities
  • Perform administrative duties, such as hall and cafeteria monitoring and bus loading and unloading.
• Distribute instructional or library materials
  • Select, store, order, issue, and inventory classroom equipment, materials, and supplies.
• Evaluate performance of educational staff
  • Supervise, evaluate, and plan assignments for teacher assistants and volunteers.
• Maintain inventories of materials, equipment, or products.
  • Select, store, order, issue, and inventory classroom equipment, materials, and supplies.