Early Childhood Educator (E.C.E.) needed in Canada by Newport Childcare Centre INC 

Here’s a non-exhaustive list of common tasks Early Childhood Educators are required to complete.

• Providing a stimulating, caring, inclusive, safe, and clean environment for infants and toddlers:
• Ensuring children’s safety by identifying and preventing potential risks and health hazards; and
• maintaining a clean environment, promoting good personal hygiene and hand washing, as well as assisting in housekeeping duties (e.g. ensuring toys, furniture, and equipment are appropriately cleaned and sanitized).

• Assisting in planning, preparing, and implementing a high quality, play-based, developmentally appropriate curriculum to foster physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development:
• Developing schedules and routines to familiarize students with daily habits and necessities (e.g. washing hands), including feeding them lunch/snacks and ensuring they get proper rest;
• teaching children pre-literacy, reading and language skills (e.g. rhymes, alphabets, and numbers), motor skills, and shape and colour recognition;
• organizing activities that promote and facilitate the development of social, creative, and physical skills;
• ensuring that all activities also serve to promote and improve each child’s individual self-esteem; and
• individualizing the curriculum as required, ensuring that all activities are accessible.

• Using different teaching methods in order to adapt to each child’s individual needs:
• Instructing infants and toddlers on how to convey their ideas, feelings, and needs by establishing conversations, asking, and responding to their questions; and
• improving children’s behaviour by explaining and demonstrating good practices to them.

• Identifying any behavioural or cognitive difficulties children may present in order to apply the necessary corrections or special methods:
• Identifying and adapting to each child’s individual personality, skills, and necessities;
• devoting extra time to tend to the special needs of some children;
• tracking and reporting children’s health, safety, and well-being; and
• reporting any abusive situation to the appropriate authorities, whether the child is experiencing physical, sexual, emotional, and/or verbal abuse.

• Observing, monitoring, and tracking each child’s individual progress and development to make sure they work successfully towards achieving pre-established learning and behavioural goals:
• Complying with all recording and reporting requirements outlined by national and provincial policies and procedures (e.g. daily log, incident reports, and medication administration); and
• meeting with parents and other staff members in order to discuss behavioural and learning difficulties children may present.