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Early Childhood Educators

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  • Job description
  • Advancement and mobility
  • Hourly wage
  • Job prospects for 2021-2025
  • Sectors of activity
  • Training and requirements
  • Main skills and characteristics
  • Personality profiles (RIASEC)
  • Additional information

Job description

These individuals accompany young children in their learning. They design, organize, and lead activities that stimulate their intellectual, physical, and emotional development. They also ensure their safety and well-being. This group includes supervisors. They work for:

  • Early childhood centres (CPE)
  • Daycare centres
  • Kindergartens
  • Organizations for children in difficulty
  • Maisons de la famille (service centres for family issues)

Environment

  • Controlled ambient temperature
  • Climatic conditions

Main tasks

Early Childhood Educators

  • Develop education programs that promote the overall development of children.
  • Lead children in various activities (art, music, physical activity, culture, etc.).
  • Organize activities for school-aged children who use the before and after-school child care service.
  • Plan and maintain an environment that ensures the health, safety, and well-being of children.
  • Assess children’s abilities, skills, interests, and needs and prepare reports.
  • Discuss children’s progress or problems with their parents/guardians and other staff.
  • Help children develop good eating, toileting, and dressing habits.
  • Collaborate with service providers.
  • Supervise and coordinate staff.

Early Childhood Educator Assistants

  • Support educators in implementing programs aimed at the overall development of children.
  • Facilitate various activities (e.g. storytelling).
  • Prepare and serve snacks
  • Set up rooms and furniture for dinner and naps.
  • Help children develop good eating, toileting, and dressing habits.
  • Record observations about the children and give them to the educators.
  • Maintain daycare equipment and assist with household chores and cooking.
  • Discuss the children’s progress and difficulties with other staff members.
  • Assist staff and supervisors with record keeping, as required.

Advancement and mobility

  • Several years of experience lead to pedagogical advisor and supervision positions.

Hourly wage

The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2019 to 2021.
Minimum
$15.00
Median
$22.00
Maximum
$25.19

Job prospects for 2021-2025

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Job prospects for 2021-2025

Job prospects

All of Québec

Non available
Limited
Good
Very good
Very good

All of Québec

Non available
Limited
Good
Very good
Non available

Total jobs for 2020

All of Québec

96,000

All of Québec

na

Gender distribution

All of Québec

Not available.
96.4% Female
3.6% Male

Not available.
  • 96.4% Female
  • 3.6% Male

Job types

All of Québec

Not available.
Full time
Part time

Not available.
  • Full time
  • Part time

Yearly wage on 2015

All of Québec

$30,000

All of Québec

Other characteristics

All of Québec

  • Non traditional for men
  • None

All of Québec

  • Non traditional for men
  • None

Sectors of activity

All of Québec

Not available.
  1. Social Assistance
    NAICS 624
    79% of jobs
  2. Educational Services
    NAICS 61
    19% of jobs
  3. Health Care
    NAICS 621, 622, 623
    1% of jobs
  4. Other Services (except Public Administration)
    NAICS 81
    0% of jobs
  5. Business, building and other support services
    NAICS 55, 56
    0% of jobs
  6. Others
    1% of jobs

All of Québec

Not available.
  1. Social Assistance
    NAICS 624
    79% of jobs
  2. Educational Services
    NAICS 61
    19% of jobs
  3. Health Care
    NAICS 621, 622, 623
    1% of jobs
  4. Other Services (except Public Administration)
    NAICS 81
    0% of jobs
  5. Business, building and other support services
    NAICS 55, 56
    0% of jobs
  6. Others
    1% of jobs

Training and requirements

Formation

Most training programs are offered in French only.

Secondary

STC in school Daycare Educator This hyperlink will open in a new window.
Code : 4732
STC in service de garde en milieu scolaire This hyperlink will open in a new window.
Code : 4232

College

DCS in early Childhood Education This hyperlink will open in a new window.
Code : 322A0

Placement rate: 66.2%

28.2% of graduates pursue further studies

More on graduates’ employment situation
ACS in early Childhood Education This hyperlink will open in a new window.
Code : JEE0K

Placement rate: 83.4%

6.8% of graduates pursue further studies

More on graduates’ employment situation
ACS in education in childhood services This hyperlink will open in a new window.
Code : JEE03
DCS in special Care Counselling This hyperlink will open in a new window.
Code : 351A0

Placement rate: 80%

17.2% of graduates pursue further studies

More on graduates’ employment situation
ACS in spécialisation en éducation à l'enfance This hyperlink will open in a new window.
Code : JEE1M
ACS in techniques d'éducation à l'enfance This hyperlink will open in a new window.
Code : JEE0S

Placement rate: 89.1%

1.8% of graduates pursue further studies

More on graduates’ employment situation
ACS in techniques d'éducation à l'enfance This hyperlink will open in a new window.
Code : JEE1B
DCS in techniques d'éducation spécialisée (Nouvelle version) This hyperlink will open in a new window.
Code : 351A1

Also required

Early Childhood Educator Assistants

  • Experience with children.

Sometimes required

  • Training in emergency first aid and CPR (Child Care) may be required.
  • Possession of a qualified Early Childhood Educator designation (with a college diploma in Child Life Skills or recognized equivalency) may be required or an asset.

Main skills and characteristics

Skills

  • Oral expression
  • Learning strategies
  • Teaching
  • Coordination
  • Active listening
  • Social perception
  • Critical thought
  • Data collection
  • Reading comprehension
  • Result evaluation
  • Service oriented
  • Active learning
  • Time management
  • Judgment and decision-making
  • Written expression
  • Persuasion
  • Solving complex problems
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Abilities

  • Verbal skills
  • Speech clarity
  • Oral comprehension
  • Awareness of issues
  • Originality
  • Speech recognition
  • Information organization
  • Written comprehension
  • Idea generation
  • Deductive reasoning
  • Written expression
  • Inductive reasoning
  • Near vision
  • Classification
  • Time sharing
  • Selective attention
  • Distance vision
  • Information processing speed
  • Processing flexibility
More Less abilities

Knowledge and attributes

  • Capacity to establish and maintain interpersonal relations
  • Capacity to adapt
  • Spoken and written bilingualism (French and English)
  • Knowledge of customer and personalized services
  • Capacity to work in a team
  • Vitality
  • Creativity
  • Friendliness
  • Pedagogical knowledge
  • Capacity to facilitate a group
  • Open-mindedness

Interests

  • Create, design
  • Teach or educate

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.
Investigative
People with this profile prefer relying on theoretical knowledge before acting. They like observation, analysis and problem solving.
Additional information

Official name of the NOC 4214

Early childhood educators and assistants

Job titles

  • Child care worker assistant
  • Early childhood educator (ece) assistant
  • Early childhood educator (ece)
  • Preschool helper
  • Early childhood program staff assistant
  • Daycare helper
  • Nursery school helper
  • Early childhood educator assistant - kindergarten
  • Educator assistant - junior kindergarten
  • Baby-care worker assistant
  • Early childhood assistant
  • Daycare co-ordinator
  • Nursery school teacher
  • Early childhood educator - kindergarten
  • Daycare teacher
  • Infants' daycare worker
  • Daycare attendant
  • Preschool supervisor
  • Baby-care workers supervisor
  • Infant daycare workers supervisor
  • Daycare supervisor
  • Early childhood program supervisor
  • Early childhood supervisor
  • Child care worker - daycare
  • Daycare worker
  • Early childhood education worker
More Less job titles

Skill type

Education, law and social, community and government services

Related occupations

  • Elementary and secondary school teacher assistants
  • Elementary school and kindergarten teachers
  • Managers in social, community and correctional services

See also

  • Glossary (PDF 229 Kb)
  • Québec emploi This hyperlink will open in a new window.

Last update: July 4, 2022

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