3610-Pre-Primary Education Teachers

Tasks include:

• planning and organising individual and group activities designed to facilitate the development of children's motor skills, cooperative and social skills, confidence and understanding
• promoting language development through story-telling, role-play, songs, rhymes and informal conversations and discussions
• leading children in activities that provide opportunities for creative expression through the media of art, dramatic play, music and physical fitness
• observing children in order to evaluate progress and to detect signs of developmental, emotional or health related problems with parents
• observing and assessing nutritional health, welfare and safety needs of students and identifying factors which may impede students' progress
• supervising children's activities to ensure safety and resolve conflicts
• guiding and assisting children in the development of proper eating, dressing and toilet habits
• discussing progress or problems of children with parents and other staff members and identifying appropriate actions and referrals to other services
• establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships with other service providers working with young children