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A nanny provides daily care to children at their home. Nannies perform many of the parents’ duties. They prepare meals, transport children to appointments or school, organize play or recreational activities, attend to the health and safety of children and perform some housekeeping. A nanny typically has some minor emergency medical knowledge, such as the ability to perform CPR or first aid until a first responder can arrive.
General Salary Range: $19K – $32K*
* MN salary information sourced from onetonline.org
Counselors are assigned to certain groups of children and are required to know where those children are at all times. They assist program directors and other staff during activities. They demonstrate good leadership and maturity, helping children learn problem-solving skills and basic knowledge in a specific area (camping, hunting, sports, nature, science, and so forth).
General Salary Range: $19K – $41K*
* MN salary information sourced from onetonline.org
A Guardian ad Litem is appointed by the court to be an advocate for a child who is involved in court proceedings. Guardians ad Litem can be appointed to different types of cases including child abuse and neglect cases, divorce and custody cases. They write reports to the court that can be used as evidence in legal hearings. Sometimes guardians are lawyers, but many guardians are laypersons. Some positions are paid staff as part of the district court; others are volunteers.
For more information on Guardian ad Litems, visit the Minnesota Guardian ad Litem Board.
Assistant Teachers support the primary teacher by assisting in grasping daily lessons. They copy worksheets for classes, assist in developing lesson plans, help students to complete assignments, and perform clerical and non-instructional assignments as assigned.
Assistant Teachers work under the supervision of a Child Care Teacher and must be at least 18 years of age.
General Salary Range: $19K – $43K*
* MN salary information sourced from onetonline.org
As a Center Director you are responsible for managing the activities of child development facilities to provide instruction and care for children. Director duties include: preparing budgets, authorizing purchase of materials, interviewing and recommending hiring of staff, and other administrative duties, as well as maintaining a safe and healthy learning environment. Some directors also act as teachers.
General Salary Range: $34K – $84K*
* MN salary information sourced from onetonline.org
Youth workers work with families experiencing financial, relationship or other difficulties. They offer practical help, emotional support and advice on coping strategies, allowing children to stay with their families rather than under state care. They work in schools, hospitals, corrective institutions, youth refuges, community centers and organizations such as Scouts, Guides, YWCA and YMCA. They also work in places where young people congregate, including shopping centers, parks and reserves. Youth workers often work unsupervised and much of their work takes place outside normal hours.
General Salary Range: $21K – $50K*
* MN salary information sourced from onetonline.org
Recreation camp directors oversee the operations of a youth activities camp or site.
Recreation directors plan, schedule and implement programs for children to keep them educated, entertained and active. They gather and distribute supplies, secure locations for outdoor activities and teach children basic skills on a variety of topics.
General Salary Range: $19K – $41K*
* MN salary information sourced from onetonline.org
Under general supervision, provide developmental care and supervision to children enrolled in a center based program. These individuals help implement age appropriate curriculum for children, establish and maintain supportive relationships with children and parents, and model appropriate child care practices.
General Salary Range: $19K – $48K*
* MN salary information sourced from onetonlinet.org
Carries out the child care program activities under the supervision of a teacher or assistant teacher. Must be at least 16 years of age; if under 18 years of age, must be directly supervised by a teacher or assistant teacher at all times except with sleeping children or assisting with toileting and diapering.
General Salary Range: $19K – $43K*
* MN salary information sourced from onetonlinet.org
Child care providers nurture and supervise children for parents while they are at work or away.
The type of work involved depends on the age of the child, the type of setting, and the amount of time the child spends in care. Monitoring and meeting the health, safety and nutritional needs of the client are the highest priority. Care providers also create and organize activities that help stimulate a child’s mental, physical and social development. For younger children, a care setting can prepare a child to enter school.
Must be 18 years old to hold this position.
General Salary Range: $19K – $32K*
* MN salary information sourced from onetonline.org
Head Start teachers provide education to preschoolers in national Head Start programs. Head Start teachers are guided by educational standards set by the program. They create and implement curriculum designed to meet the individual needs of a diverse population. They meet with parents to review their children’s progress and sometimes make home visits.
General Salary Range: $22K – $48K*
* MN salary information sourced from onetonline.org
These individuals organize documents submitted from child care centers or family child care providers so they can receive reimbursement from the Minnesota Department of Health. Duties could include data entry, reviewing menus for completeness, classifying children’s enrollment forms and scanning documents into a computer system.
RBPD (Relationship-based Professional Development) Specialists provide additional support to new practitioners of early childhood and care or school-age care, or to experienced practitioners who have acquired new learning to be put into practice. Together the RBPD specialist and the practitioner set goals and plan how to accomplish them. RBPD Specialist is an overarching term used to describe a consultant, TA provider, coach or mentor. An RBPD Specialist in Minnesota includes Parent Aware Quality Coaching, CLASS coaching, TACSEI coaching, MNAEYC coaching, CICC consulting, SEEDS of Early Literacy coaching, Child Care Health consultants, Infant Mental Health consultants, and so forth.
Visit the RBPD Specialist Page for more information.
A home visitor visits homes (or other care settings) on behalf of the government, a school, or a private agency.
Home visitors go to their clients to provide services. In an educational setting, they conduct lessons and development plans for individual children with special needs, or for groups of children in a daycare. In a social services setting, they may check to ensure that government or justice department requirements are being fulfilled.
General Salary Range: $21K – $50K*
* MN salary information sourced from onetonline.org
Trainers provide training for workers in the field of early childhood and school-age care and education.
They communicate their knowledge and skills to facilitate adult learning. This communication can take the form of presentations, demonstrations and/or documentation.
For more information on how to become an Achieve Trainer I, visit the Trainer Approval Guide.
Assistants provide support for teachers, allowing the teachers to focus on lesson plans.
Assistants and aides provide two types of support. Clerical support involves grading assignments and maintaining records. Nonclerical support includes a variety of tasks from monitoring or supervising children at play or during lunch, or giving individual students help with their assignments. Many schools employ assistants or aides to work with special education students to better integrate them into the classroom.
General Salary Range: $19K – $43K*
* MN salary information sourced from onetonline.org
RBPD (Relationship-based Professional Development) specialists provide additional support to new practitioners of early childhood and care or school-age care, or to experienced practitioners who have acquired new learning to be put into practice. Together the RBPD specialist and the practitioner set goals and plan how to accomplish them. RBPD Specialist is an overarching term used to describe consultant, TA provider, coach or mentor. RBPD Specialist in Minnesota includes Parent Aware Quality Coaching, CLASS coaching, TACSEI coaching, MNAEYC coaching, CICC consulting, SEEDS of Early Literacy coaching, Child Care Health consultants, Infant Mental Health consultants, and so forth.
Visit the RBPD Specialist Page for more information.
Counselors help individuals overcome obstacles and achieve goals. Child and family counselors work with parents and children to improve communication, modify perceptions and, as needed, work through family crises. Depending on their child and family counselor training, these professionals may also provide marriage therapy services.
General Salary Range: $32K – $76K*
* MN salary information sourced from onetonline.org
Social work is a broad term for fields in which professionals help people cope with issues that disrupt their everyday lives.
Social workers are typically defined by a specific field – they can work with children and schools, medical or public health issues, or mental health and substance abuse issues. They may offer advising services, provide individual or group therapy, or help a client find help with housing, food or safety. A social worker may serve as a link between the client and another organization such as a school, place of employment or government agency.
General Salary Range: $31k – $79K*
* MN salary information sourced from onetonline.org
An ECFE teacher plans, coordinates, and teaches in an instructional program that addresses the intellectual, emotional, cultural, social, and physical needs children. Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE) is a program for all Minnesota families with children between the ages of birth to kindergarten entrance and it is offered through Minnesota public school districts. ECFE is based on the idea that the family provides a child’s first and most significant learning environment and parents are a child’s first and most important teachers. ECFE’s goal is to enhance the ability of all parents and other family members to provide the best possible environment for their child’s learning and growth.
For more information on the Early Childhood and Family Education program, visit the Minnesota Department of Education.
Special education teachers work with students who have a wide range of learning, mental, emotional and physical disabilities. For students who have mild or moderate disabilities, they ensure that lessons and teaching strategies are modified to meet the students’ needs. With students who have severe disabilities, they teach the students independent living skills and basic literacy, communication, and math. Special education teachers work in either public or private schools. They generally work school hours when students are present but use nights and weekends to prepare lessons, do paperwork, and grade papers.
General Salary Range: $39K – $95K*
* MN salary information sourced from onetonline.org
Registered Dieticians and Nutritionists plan and conduct food service or nutritional programs to promote healthy lifestyles. They may supervise activities of a department providing food services, counseling individuals, or conducting nutritional research, if needed.
General Salary Range: $43K – 77K*
* MN salary information sourced from onetonline.org
Human Service Directors ensure the continued operation of a human services agency.
Administrative work in a human services agency balances day-to-day logistical needs with the agency’s mission statement. This work involves clerical organization and office management; administrators may be responsible for communicating with both employees as well as outside organizations. Directors coordinate the agency’s general and specific goals and activities.
General Salary Range: $48K – $105K*
* MN salary information sourced from onetonline.org
Trainers provide training for workers in the field of early childhood and school-age care and education. They communicate their knowledge and skills in the form of presentations, demonstrations, and/or documentation.
For more information on how to become an Achieve Trainer II, view the Trainer Approval Guide.
A child support officer works for the court system to help secure child support for parents.
Child support officers review cases to help determine if individuals are responsible for financial support of a child. To do this, officers conduct hearings where they collect evidence and take testimony, then make recommendations to a judge.
General Salary Range: $31K – $79K*
* MN salary information sourced from onetonlinet.org
A teacher provides education for children during a critical part of their intellectual development. They create lesson plans that cover all the state requirements, give presentations to the class, and introduce and explain new concepts. Instructors engage the children by using pictures, drawings, recitation and reading; they assign homework and then grade the assignments, watching to see where individual students may need help. Teachers stay in close contact with parents, keeping them informed about their children’s progress.
General Salary Range: $36K – $94K*
* MN salary information sourced from onetonline.org
A parent educator plans, coordinates, and teaches in an instructional program that addresses the intellectual, emotional, cultural, social, and physical needs of both parents and children. In Minnesota, a parent and family education is authorized to instruct parents in an early childhood family education (ECFE) program.
For more information on the Early Childhood Family Education program, visit the Minnesota Department of Education.
Early intervention specialists provide support to families of children with special needs. Early intervention specialists evaluate and assess children with developmental delays and make recommendations on services or therapies that can help children overcome limitations. The specialists manage the cases of their clients; keeping records of treatments, activities and test results. The records are used to help parents make the best choices for their child’s development.
Head Start teachers provide education to preschoolers in national Head Start programs. They plan, coordinate, and teach to address the intellectual, emotional, cultural, social and physical needs of children.
Head Start teachers create and implement curriculum to meet the individual needs of a varied population. They meet with parents to update them of their children’s progress and sometimes even make home visits.
General Salary Range: $22K – $48K*
* MN salary information sourced from onetonline.org
In Professional Development (PD) advising, an expert with knowledge on PD planning and career growth provides information to address an identified need. PD advising is limited to helping early care and education providers create and implement goals to advance them on the career lattice. Advisors provide information about training organizations and higher education institutions and connect advisees to resources that help the advisee make decisions about advancing on the career lattice. Advisors may review PD plans with advisees and administer (or suggest administration of) needs assessments or self assessments to gain a better perspective of the advisee’s goals.
An infant mental health specialist is a psychologist who chooses to work with very young children (5 years or less). They help babies develop physically and mentally; this work may take the form of a therapist between child and caregiver. With a focus in social work, a specialist in infant mental health may serve as a consultant in a child care, group home or school setting. For those who pursue a doctorate degree, becoming a clinician specializing in autism could be an option.
An educational researcher studies education specifically related to children. They develop experiment designs, track progress of ongoing research, and perform fieldwork to collect data. They maintain databases and use statistical methods to find results of their studies. Then they write up their findings in research reports and present this information to their sponsor, the scientific community or the general public.
Trainers provide training for workers in the field of early childhood and school-age care and education. Trainers communicate their knowledge and skills to facilitate adult learning. This communication can take the form of presentations, demonstrations and/or documentation.
For more information about how to become an Achieve Master Trainer, visit the Trainer Approval Guide.
Librarians help library users find information. They have a wide knowledge of scholarly and public information sources. They keep up with new literature and help a library select new material. Librarians analyze users’ needs and then organize, catalogue and prepare materials so that they are easy to find.
General Salary Range: $39K – $80K*
* MN salary information sourced from onetoneline.org
Therapists are trained to deal specifically with interpersonal issues that arise in individuals, couples, families and children. They may assess, diagnose and treat mental illness and psychological distress within the context of the marriage and family systems. The professionals provide counseling services in several different areas including premarital counseling, relationship counseling, child counseling, and separation and divorce counseling.
General Salary Range: $32 – 76K*
* MN salary information sourced from onetonline.org
Child development specialists provide family services to increase parenting skills and aid in the development potential of young children. They conduct workshops to educate parents about child development, provide assessments for children along with in-service training to staff at Head Start, daycare, and preschool programs. They collaborate with other agencies to promote health and behavioral well-being for youth in a community.
General Salary Range: $33K – $77K*
* MN salary information sourced from onetonline.org
An instructor provides education to adults pursuing a college degree or certification in a particular field of study.
Instructors create lesson plans, present material, give assignments and grade homework. They engage students on multiple levels, using laboratory work, readings from texts, lectures and group discussions to facilitate learning.
General Salary Range: $33K – $95K*
* MN salary information sourced from onetonline.org
School counselors work within an educational setting to help students develop mentally and academically.
School counseling typically involves several duties. Counselors may help develop guidance curriculum for the school they work at. They spend a lot of time in one-on-one sessions helping students select classes and explore educational options. When students are troubled or experiencing psychological distress, school counselors provide therapeutic services or referral to more qualified mental health professionals.
General Salary Range: $38K – $80K*
* MN salary information sourced from onetonline.org
Speech and language pathologists (sometimes called speech therapists) treat disorders related to speech and voice.
Speech therapists use special diagnostic and assessment methods to identify specific problems their clients face. They develop individual plans to meet their patient’s needs, provide instruction in use of automated devices, and teach their patients how to make sounds, how to strengthen specific muscles, or use sign language.
General Salary Range: $45K – $97K*
* MN salary information sourced from onetonline.org
A child psychologist works specifically with children. The job can take the form of therapy to school-age youth, or research into the testing of child mental health. Sometimes child psychologists work with schools to create policy or programming.
General Salary Range: $43K – $114K*
* MN salary information sourced from onetonline.org
| KCF CONTENT AREA | CORE COMPETENCY (OLD) | CDA CONTENT AREA |
|---|---|---|
| I: Child Development and Learning | I: Child Growth & Development | 8: Principles of Child Development and Learning |
| II.A: Creating Positive Learning Experiences | IIa: Creating the Learning Environment | 2: Steps to advance children’s physical and intellectual development |
| II.B: Promoting Cognitive Development | IIc: Language and Literacy IId: Cognitive Development | 2: Steps to advance children’s physical and intellectual development |
| II.C: Promoting Social and Emotional Development | IIe: Personal and Social Development IV: Interactions with Children | 3: Positive ways to support children’s social and emotional development |
| II.D: Promoting Physical Development | IIb: Physical Development | 2: Steps to advance children’s physical and intellectual development |
| II.E: Promoting Creative Development | IIf: Creativity and the Arts | 2: Steps to advance children’s physical and intellectual development |
| III: Relationships with Families | V: Families and Communities | 4:Strategies to establish productive relationships with families |
| IV.A: Observing, Recording and Assessing Development | III: Assessment and Planning for Individual Needs | 7: Observing and recording children’s behavior |
| IV.B: Assessing and Using Information to Plan | III: Assessment and Planning for Individual Needs | 7: Observing and recording children’s behavior |
| IV.C: Assessing and Using Information to Enhance and Maintain Program Quality | VII: Program Planning and Evaluation | 5: Strategies to manage effective program operation |
| V: Historical and Contemporary Development of Early Childhood Education | N/A | 6: Maintaining a commitment to professionalism |
| VI: Professionalism | VIII: Professional Development and Leadership | 6: Maintaining a commitment to professionalism |
| VII.A: Establishing Healthy Practices | VI: Health, Safety and Nutrition | 1: Planning a safe, healthy learning environment |
| VII.B: Ensuring Safety | VI: Health, Safety and Nutrition | 1: Planning a safe, healthy learning environment |
| VII.C: Providing Healthy Nutrition | VI: Health, Safety and Nutrition | 1: Planning a safe, healthy learning environment |
| VIII: Application through Clinical Experiences | N/A | 6: Maintaining a commitment to professionalism |