Apprentices progress at their own pace – they demonstrate
competency in skills and knowledge through assessment tests,
but are not required to complete a specific number of hours.
competency in skills and knowledge through assessment tests,
but are not required to complete a specific number of hours.
Child Care Development Specialist
Anonymous
National (OA)
Work Process Content
On the Job Training
Anonymous
96
Skills
Arrange childcare or educational settings to ensure physical safety of children.
2
Arrange childcare or educational settings to ensure physical safety of children.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Maintain a safe play environment.
2
Maintain a safe play environment.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Monitor activities of individuals to ensure safety or compliance with rules.
2
Monitor activities of individuals to ensure safety or compliance with rules.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Discuss child development and behavior with parents or guardians.
2
Discuss child development and behavior with parents or guardians.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Communicate with children, parents and/or guardians about daily activities, behaviors, and related issues.
2
Communicate with children, parents and/or guardians about daily activities, behaviors, and related issues.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Identify signs of emotional or developmental problems in children and bring them to parent’s or guardian’s attention.
2
Identify signs of emotional or developmental problems in children and bring them to parent’s or guardian’s attention.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Assist individuals with special needs.
2
Assist individuals with special needs.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Care for children in institutional setting, such as group homes, nursery schools, private businesses, or schools for the handicapped.
2
Care for children in institutional setting, such as group homes, nursery schools, private businesses, or schools for the handicapped.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Provide counsel, comfort, or encouragement to individuals or families.
2
Provide counsel, comfort, or encouragement to individuals or families.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Support children’s emotional and social development, encouraging understanding of others and positive self-concepts.
2
Support children’s emotional and social development, encouraging understanding of others and positive self-concepts.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Clean tools or equipment.
2
Clean tools or equipment.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Sanitize toys and play equipment.
2
Sanitize toys and play equipment.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Sterilize bottles and prepare formulas.
2
Sterilize bottles and prepare formulas.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Provide for basic needs of children.
2
Provide for basic needs of children.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Maintain client information or service records.
2
Maintain client information or service records.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Keep records on individual children, including daily observations and information about activities, meals served, and medications administered.
2
Keep records on individual children, including daily observations and information about activities, meals served, and medications administered.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Monitor health or behavior of people or animals.
2
Monitor health or behavior of people or animals.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Identify signs of emotional or developmental problems in children and bring them to parent’s or guardian’s attention.
2
Identify signs of emotional or developmental problems in children and bring them to parent’s or guardian’s attention.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Arrange items for use or display.
2
Arrange items for use or display.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Organize and store toys and materials to ensure order in activity areas.
2
Organize and store toys and materials to ensure order in activity areas.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Teach health or hygiene practices.
2
Teach health or hygiene practices.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Instruct children in health and personal habits, such as eating, resting, and toilet habits.
2
Instruct children in health and personal habits, such as eating, resting, and toilet habits.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Teach daily living skills or behaviors.
2
Teach daily living skills or behaviors.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Discipline children and recommend or initiate other measures to control behavior, such as caring for own clothing and picking up toys and books.
2
Discipline children and recommend or initiate other measures to control behavior, such as caring for own clothing and picking up toys and books.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Read to children and teach them simple painting, drawing, handicrafts, and songs.
2
Read to children and teach them simple painting, drawing, handicrafts, and songs.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Help children with homework and school work.
2
Help children with homework and school work.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Perform administrative or clerical tasks.
2
Perform administrative or clerical tasks.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Perform general administrative tasks, such as taking attendance, editing internal paperwork, and making phone calls.
2
Perform general administrative tasks, such as taking attendance, editing internal paperwork, and making phone calls.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Care for patients with mental illnesses.
2
Care for patients with mental illnesses.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Provide care for mentally disturbed, delinquent, or handicapped children.
2
Provide care for mentally disturbed, delinquent, or handicapped children.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Develop educational or training programs.
2
Develop educational or training programs.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Create developmentally appropriate lesson plans.
2
Create developmentally appropriate lesson plans.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Perform housekeeping duties.
2
Perform housekeeping duties.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Perform housekeeping duties, such as laundry, cleaning, dish washing, and changing of linens.
2
Perform housekeeping duties, such as laundry, cleaning, dish washing, and changing of linens.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Prepare foods or meals.
2
Prepare foods or meals.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Assist in preparing food and serving meals and refreshments to children.
2
Assist in preparing food and serving meals and refreshments to children.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Develop daily schedules for children or families.
2
Develop daily schedules for children or families.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Regulate children’s rest periods.
2
Regulate children’s rest periods.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Assign duties or work schedules to employees.
2
Assign duties or work schedules to employees.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Perform general personnel functions, such as supervision, training, and scheduling.
2
Perform general personnel functions, such as supervision, training, and scheduling.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Perform human resources activities.
2
Perform human resources activities.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Perform general personnel functions, such as supervision, training, and scheduling.
2
Perform general personnel functions, such as supervision, training, and scheduling.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Train service staff.
2
Train service staff.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Perform general personnel functions, such as supervision, training, and scheduling.
2
Perform general personnel functions, such as supervision, training, and scheduling.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Organize recreational activities or events.
2
Organize recreational activities or events.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Organize and participate in recreational activities and outings, such as games and field trips.
2
Organize and participate in recreational activities and outings, such as games and field trips.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Accompany individuals or groups to activities.
2
Accompany individuals or groups to activities.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Accompany children to and from school, on outings, and to medical appointments.
2
Accompany children to and from school, on outings, and to medical appointments.
2
- Demonstrates Fundamentals: Apprentice can perform the task with some coaching.
- Proficient in Task: Apprentice performs task properly and consistently.
Related Instruction Content
Training Provider(s):
Little Learners Spectrum Center
12
RI hours
Apprentice Orientation and Miscellaneous Workplace Training Sessions and Meetings
Apprentice Orientation and Miscellaneous Workplace Training Sessions and Meetings
Missouri Licensing Requirements
12
Missouri Licensing Requirements
12
Ensure participants complete 12 hours of training covering First Aid and CPR, Safe Sleep Policies, Childcare Licensing Rules and Regulations, Fingerprints and Background Checks.
Core Childcare Training
Core Childcare Training
Conscious Discipline Strategies, Techniques for fostering emotional intelligence and self-regulation in children, Classroom Management, Strategies for creating a structured and nurturing learning environment, Behavior Teachings, Approaches to understanding and guiding child behavior effectively, Curriculum (Project Construct), Developmental assessments: how to assess children’s development in needs.
Child Development Associate (CDA) Credentialing
Child Development Associate (CDA) Credentialing
Partnership with T.E.A.C.H. Missouri. Participants will enroll in a yearlong program designed to provide comprehensive training and hands-on experience.
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