Early Childhood Educator
Learn about being an Early Childhood Educator today!!
Arikah Bellisle
Duties and Tasks
This job's duties are....
- working with younger children or older if it is an after school program
- Need to understand how children learn and develop
- Trained to design games and learning activities that are fun.
- Interact with others well
- Fun and kind personality around kids
- Be on your feet a lot.
Where you work and Conditions
- work in preschools, daycare centers, community centers,and recreational facilities
- Full time ECE's usually work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.
- people who work with small groups of children work at homes.
Extra Information
Education
- One of the suggested colleges to educate yourself for this is job is central Michigan.
- ECE's generally need at least a high school diploma.
- also require an associate or bachelor’s degree in early childhood education or child development.
- Others require a combination of education and child care experience.
- Suggested school subjects
Health & Physical Education English
Mathematics
Science
Social Studies - Geography
Creative Arts
Personal Impreession
Best parts- working with children and making them happy
Worst part- working with complicated children
Values- Being fun because if you are a boring teacher the kids may not like you.
Salary
Yearly- around $48,000 depending on the area of work.
Hourly- about $12 per hour
In Michigan!
Yearly- $30,000-$55,000
Hourly- $12