Early Childhood Educators
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
All of Québec
Total jobs for 2020
All of Québec
All of Québec
Gender distribution
All of Québec
- 96.4% Female
- 3.6% Male
- 96.4% Female
- 3.6% Male
Job types
All of Québec
- Full time
- Part time
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2015
All of Québec
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
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NAICS 62479% of jobs
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NAICS 6119% of jobs
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NAICS 621, 622, 6231% of jobs
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NAICS 810% of jobs
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NAICS 55, 560% of jobs
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Others1% of jobs
All of Québec
-
NAICS 62479% of jobs
-
NAICS 6119% of jobs
-
NAICS 621, 622, 6231% of jobs
-
NAICS 810% of jobs
-
NAICS 55, 560% of jobs
-
Others1% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Secondary
College
DCS in early Childhood Education 
Placement rate: 66.2%
28.2% of graduates pursue further studies
ACS in early Childhood Education
Placement rate: 83.4%
6.8% of graduates pursue further studies
DCS in special Care Counselling
Placement rate: 80%
17.2% of graduates pursue further studies
ACS in techniques d'éducation à l'enfance
Placement rate: 89.1%
1.8% of graduates pursue further studies
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
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
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.
Note about CNP
Occupational information is provided based on the National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2016. The 5-digit code of the NOC 2021 is shown in parentheses for information purposes only for occupations that correspond to those of NOC 2016.
Official name of the NOC 4214 (42202)
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
Skill type
Education, law and social, community and government services
Last update: November 15, 2022
