# Competences — early years teaching assistant

Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/4d27152a-a8ee-4f5a-9f93-a2fb4fb2b2e3).

## Essential

- **assess the development of youth** (skill/competence)
- **assist children in developing personal skills** (skill/competence)
- **assist students in their learning** (skill/competence)
- **assist students with equipment** (skill/competence)
- **attend to children's basic physical needs** (skill/competence)
- **encourage students to acknowledge their achievements** (skill/competence)
- **give constructive feedback** (skill/competence)
- **guarantee students' safety** (skill/competence)
- **handle children's problems** (skill/competence)
- **implement care programmes for children** (skill/competence)
- **kindergarten school procedures** (knowledge)
- **maintain students' discipline** (skill/competence)
- **monitor children's physical development** (skill/competence)
- **perform playground surveillance** (skill/competence)
- **provide lesson materials** (skill/competence)
- **provide teacher support** (skill/competence)
- **support children's wellbeing** (skill/competence)
- **support the positiveness of youths** (skill/competence)
- **workplace sanitation** (knowledge)

## Optional

- assess students (skill/competence)
- common children's diseases (knowledge)
- curriculum objectives (knowledge)
- escort students on a field trip (skill/competence)
- facilitate teamwork between students (skill/competence)
- first aid (knowledge)
- learning difficulties (knowledge)
- liaise with educational support staff (skill/competence)
- maintain relations with children's parents (skill/competence)
- organise creative performance (skill/competence)
- perform classroom management (skill/competence)
- prepare lesson content (skill/competence)
- promote the safeguarding of young people (skill/competence)
- provide after school care (skill/competence)
- teach kindergarten class content (skill/competence)
- teamwork principles (knowledge)