Instruct students individually and in groups, adapting teaching methods to meet students' varying needs and interests.

• Modify teaching methods or materials to accommodate student needs.

Teach basic skills, such as color, shape, number and letter recognition, personal hygiene, and social skills.

• Teach life skills.

Observe and evaluate children's performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.

• Monitor student performance.
• Monitor student behavior, social development, or health.
• Evaluate student work.

Establish and enforce rules for behavior and policies and procedures to maintain order among students.

• Establish rules or policies governing student behavior.

Demonstrate activities to children.

• Apply multiple teaching methods.

Provide a variety of materials and resources for children to explore, manipulate, and use, both in learning activities and in imaginative play.

• Set up classroom materials or equipment.

Read books to entire classes or to small groups.

• Read to students.

Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to children.

• Develop instructional objectives.

Prepare materials, classrooms, and other indoor and outdoor spaces to facilitate creative play, learning and motor-skill activities, and safety.

• Set up classroom materials or equipment.
• Arrange childcare or educational settings to ensure physical safety of children.

Identify children showing signs of emotional, developmental, or health-related problems and discuss them with supervisors, parents or guardians, and child development specialists.

• Monitor student behavior, social development, or health.
• Discuss problems or issues with supervisors.
• Discuss student progress with parents or guardians.

Provide disabled students with assistive devices, supportive technology, and assistance accessing facilities, such as restrooms.

• Assist students with special educational needs.

Meet with parents and guardians to discuss their children's progress and to determine their priorities for their children and their resource needs.

• Discuss student progress with parents or guardians.

Organize and lead activities designed to promote physical, mental, and social development, such as games, arts and crafts, music, and storytelling.

• Plan educational activities.

Prepare children for later grades by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks.

• Encourage students.

Confer with parents or guardians, other teachers, counselors, and administrators to resolve students' behavioral and academic problems.

• Discuss problems or issues with supervisors.
• Discuss student progress with parents or guardians.

Prepare and implement remedial programs for students requiring extra help.

• Develop strategies or programs for students with special needs.

Collaborate with other teachers and administrators in the development, evaluation, and revision of kindergarten programs.

• Collaborate with other teaching professionals to develop educational programs.

Instruct and monitor students in the use and care of equipment and materials to prevent injuries and damage.

• Monitor student performance.
• Teach others to use technology or equipment.

Maintain accurate and complete student records and prepare reports on children and activities as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.

• Maintain student records.
• Prepare reports detailing student activities or performance.

Assimilate arriving children to the school environment by greeting them, helping them remove outerwear, and selecting activities of interest to them.

• Provide for basic needs of children.

Prepare for assigned classes and show written evidence of preparation upon request of immediate supervisors.

• Plan educational activities.
• Document lesson plans.

Confer with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons promoting learning, following approved curricula.

• Collaborate with other teaching professionals to develop educational programs.

Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.

• Plan educational activities.

Meet with other professionals to discuss individual students' needs and progress.

• Discuss problems or issues with supervisors.

Organize and label materials and display children's work in a manner appropriate for their sizes and perceptual skills.

• Display student work.

Prepare, administer, and grade tests and assignments to evaluate children's progress.

• Administer tests to assess educational needs or progress.
• Prepare tests.
• Evaluate student work.

Supervise, evaluate, and plan assignments for teacher assistants and volunteers.

• Evaluate performance of educational staff.
• Supervise student research or internship work.

Guide and counsel students with adjustment or academic problems or special academic interests.

• Advise students on academic or career matters.

Prepare objectives and outlines for courses of study, following curriculum guidelines or requirements of states and schools.

• Develop instructional objectives.

Attend professional meetings, educational conferences, and teacher training workshops to maintain and improve professional competence.

• Attend training sessions or professional meetings to develop or maintain professional knowledge.

Administer standardized ability and achievement tests and interpret results to determine children's developmental levels and needs.

• Administer tests to assess educational needs or progress.

Perform administrative duties, such as assisting in school libraries, hall and cafeteria monitoring, and bus loading and unloading.

• Supervise school or student activities.

Involve parent volunteers and older students in children's activities to facilitate involvement in focused, complex play.

Use computers, audio-visual aids, and other equipment and materials to supplement presentations.

• Create technology-based learning materials.

Select, store, order, issue, and inventory classroom equipment, materials, and supplies.

• Maintain inventories of materials, equipment, or products.
• Distribute instructional or library materials.
• Order instructional or library materials or equipment.

Attend staff meetings and serve on committees as required.

• Serve on institutional or departmental committees.

Plan and supervise class projects, field trips, visits by guests, or other experiential activities and guide students in learning from those activities.

• Plan experiential learning activities.