Early Childhood Educator (ECE) Assistants
Job description
These individuals assist Educators in their work with children. They ensure their safety and well-being. They help develop and lead educational activities. They prepare meals and upkeep the premises. They work for:
- Early childhood centres (CPEs)
- Daycare centres
- Childcare services
- Day camps
- Organizations for children in difficulty
- Maisons de la famille (service centres for family issues)
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
- Climatic conditions
Main tasks
- Build an emotionally meaningful relationship with the children and provide care (change diapers, wash hands before and after meals, etc.).
- Serve meals and snacks.
- Help children develop good eating, toilet, and dressing habits.
- Set up rooms and furniture for lunch and naps.
- Lead children in various activities (art, music, physical activity, etc.).
- Share observations with educators about the children’s progress, the challenges they face, etc.
- Help educators and supervisors keep records, as required.
Advancement and mobility
- Experience leads to Early Childhood Educator positions.
Training and requirements
Formation
No specific training
Sometimes required
- Experience with children may be considered an asset.
- Training in emergency first aid and CPR (Child Care) may be required.
- Early Childhood Educator designation may be required or an asset.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Teaching
- Learning strategies
- Coordination
- Oral expression
- Active listening
- Judgment and decision-making
- Social perception
- Data collection
- Reading comprehension
- Result evaluation
- Service oriented
- Time management
- Active learning
- Persuasion
- Solving complex problems
- Written expression
Abilities
- Speech clarity
- Oral comprehension
- Auditory attention
- Awareness of issues
- Reaction time
- Idea generation
- Information processing speed
- Selective attention
- Speech recognition
- Originality
- Verbal skills
- Perception speed
- Sound origin identification
- Time sharing
- Manual dexterity
- Hearing sensitivity
- Limb coordination
- Overall coordination of the body
- Digital dexterity
- Static muscle power
- Information organization
- Inductive reasoning
- Deductive reasoning
- Near vision
- Distance vision
- Hand-arm stability
- Processing flexibility
- Dynamic strength
- Core strength
- Written comprehension
Knowledge and attributes
- Capacity to establish and maintain interpersonal relations
- Capacity to adapt
- Vitality
- Respect standards and regulations
- Creativity
- Friendliness
- Assiduity and punctuality
- Sense of observation
- Pedagogical knowledge
- Capacity to facilitate a group
Interests
- Direct, organize, and manage
- Create, design
- Work manually
- Assist and advise
- Teach or educate
- Assist or care for people
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
- Artistic
- People with this profile prefer to express their emotions and thoughts through various art forms. They like to use their imagination.
- Realistic
- People with this profile prefer carrying out concrete tasks and being physically involved in what they do.
Appellation d’emploi liée (à traduire)
Early childhood educators and assistants (CNP 42202)
Skill type
Education, law and social, community and government services
Last update: January 29, 2026
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