Health & Social Care Unit 10 P3,M2 &D2

P3,Whatever job you want you need skills and qualities for it, this helps you with your job without this it would make it hard to know what you're doing and hard to adapt to the job. Nursery teachers look after young children from 3 years old to 5 years old.
For a nursery teacher the skills are qualities you need are..
Understand the stages of child development- This is very important, you need to know for a number of reasons. Nursery teachers need to be able to see the child's level of ability. Abilities can differentiate at preschool age and an effective nursery teacher will meet each child level and guide them on their pathway to achievement. It is also important so they know understand the children that they are working with especially if they are responsible for taking care of them and teaching them. If you wanted to instruct a child and you didn't understand how to do because you don't understand what's going through their mind (stages of development) then the nursery teacher would struggle to get them to do as they are told. The nursery teacher needs to know what's normal for a child's development so that if a child is not developing normally it can be noticed and something can be done about it to help make the child better. By understanding the child's development this means the teacher can understand what the child needs to grow and flourish and how they think. If a nursery teacher does not understand the stages of child development another example of a problem could be if the child is having tantrums, then because the nursery teacher doesn't understand what's normal for a child they would have difficulty in calming the child down from their tantrum. If you were working with teenagers you wouldn't treat them like children because they are much more developed than children so for example they don't necessarily need the constant attention that children do. By understanding the range of stages of child development and development in other people e.g.