Skills Needed to Work with

Young Children
Objective 2.01
By: Michelle Jaimes
Basic Communication Skills
- Allow people to send and receive
messages
- Speaking
- Listening
- Reading
- Writing
- Needed because it is useful for talking on
the phone, sending emails, making reports
and observations
Math Skills
- Essential for success in working with
young children; involving numbers and
thinking for solutions
- Adding
- Subtracting
- Multiplying
- Dividing
- Needed because these skills are used
everyday with children when serving food,
providing items, counting attendance, etc.
Thinking Skills
- Thinking skills help a professional be
responsible for the wellbeing of children
who are not old enough to make good
judgement calls for themselves.
- Thinking critically
- Making decisions
- Solving problems
- Needed to keep children safe, healthy,
and happy.
Life Skills
- Part of collective vision for learning
- Leadership
- Ethics
- Accountability
- Adaptability
- personal productivity
- Personal responsibility
- People skills
- Self- direction
- And social responsibility
- Needed because these are essential life
skills
Interpersonal Skills
- Skills used by by a person to interact with
other people properly.
- Participating as a member of a team
- Teaching others
- serving clients
- exercising leadership
- Working with cultural diversity
- Essential because, in the early childhood
setting, you will be working on a daily
basis with several different types of
people.
Leadership
- The ability to influence others toward
positive action.
- Responsibility
- Integrity
- Vison
- Perseverance
- Consideration
- Team focus
- In order to advance in any field, a person
must be able to have a positive influence
on others.
Resource Management Skills
- Being able to manage people, information,
technology, time, energy, money,
equipment, and supplies.
- Need to be managed in early childhood
settings
Professional Communication Skills
- Are important for anyone in childhood
profession, but particularly for those who
wish to manage or direct an early
childhood program.
- Communicating goals and philosophy
- Public relations
- Family communications
- Staff communication
- Teamwork, and recording information