Childcare Workers

Attend to children at schools, businesses, private households, and childcare institutions. Perform a variety of tasks, such as dressing, feeding, bathing, and overseeing play.

Attend to children at schools, businesses, private households, and childcare institutions. Perform a variety of tasks, such as dressing, feeding, bathing, and overseeing play.

• Observe and monitor children's play activities.
• Organize and store toys and materials to ensure order in activity areas.
• Care for children in institutional settings, such as group homes, nursery schools, private businesses, or schools for the handicapped.
• Sanitize toys and play equipment.
• Read to children and teach them simple painting, drawing, handicrafts, and songs.
• Instruct children in health and personal habits, such as eating, resting, and toilet habits.
• Regulate children's rest periods.
• Identify signs of emotional or developmental problems in children and bring them to parents' or guardians' attention.
• Perform general personnel functions, such as supervision, training, and scheduling.
• Communicate with children's parents or guardians about daily activities, behaviors, and related issues.
• Sterilize bottles and prepare formulas.
• Provide care for mentally disturbed, delinquent, or handicapped children.
• Operate in-house day-care centers within businesses.
• Assist in preparing food and serving meals and refreshments to children.
• Discipline children and recommend or initiate other measures to control behavior, such as caring for own clothing and picking up toys and books.
• Perform housekeeping duties, such as laundry, cleaning, dish washing, and changing of linens.
• Create developmentally appropriate lesson plans.
• Help children with homework and school work.
• Keep records on individual children, including daily observations and information about activities, meals served, and medications administered.
• Support children's emotional and social development, encouraging understanding of others and positive self-concepts.
• Accompany children to and from school, on outings, and to medical appointments.
• Organize and participate in recreational activities and outings, such as games and field trips.
• Dress children and change diapers.

Showing wage data for: New Orleans

Entry: $21,250

Median: $28,520

High: $39,090

Hourly Wage: $10.22, $13.71, $18.79

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