Childcare question?

Question

I'm wanting to work with kids in a daycare but I am unsure what is needed to start. Can someone please give me an idea.

Answer 1

If you are wanting to open your own Day Care Center, the very first thing you need to find out is if there is a need for it in your area. Make a questionare, and send it to all your neighbours within your area (about a 2 kilometre radious) also drive around and see how many other centres are within that same radious. Another suggestion is to go to your local council and find out if they would permit you to open a care centre and what their regulations are. Once you have achieved this, we'll talk again.

Answer 2

I htink some daycare places might take on staff that arn't educated in it ( e.g college), but then you would probably have to go on courses.

Answer 3

Do you want to own a daycare or just work in one?

Answer 4

If you lack experience working as a teacher's aide, maybe you can volunteer somewhere, church sunday school, after-school program,  for experience and a reference ... find out what city or state requirements are and full fill as many as you can before you apply for the paying position

you will have to be fingerprinted and they will conduct a background check...   another option is to look for an employment agency that works with agencies that are looking for day care workers they will see if you qualify to work in a daycare, then they will match you to an employer.   or  go to   www.indeeds.com  they have job listing for almost every city...

good luck

Answer 5

remember, child care teachers in day care centers make around what you would make at the mcDonald's w/o benefits.

Answer 6

i have worked at a daycare center since i was 16 and in between that time i ran my own daycare for three years...i can tell you with experience that what will be a bonus would be first aid and infant/child cpr certified...if you have references of people that you have watched their kids would be a plus on your application...you will have back ground checks, Teberculosis test (every year in some states and ever five years in others), some places down south had me do drug testing and finger printing..go around to local daycares and talk to the managers..it doesn't hurt to just see if places are hiring and alot of places will pay for your cpr/first aid..and they will deffinetly pay for the rest..i've walked into alot of daycares and walked back out because i heard "teachers" yelling at the kids or no structure....stear clear of these places because child care is not for everyone...its a VERY stressfull job....no two days are the same .... and people who shouldn't be working with kids are...good luck...i love doing childcare and wouldn't change it for the world!!!!

Answer 7

Apply to childcare centers, they may require a background check and/or a high school diploma, but it depends on the regulations in your state.

Answer 8

in California, I know you dont need any training to be an aide, but if you want to be a primary caregiver/teacher you need 12 units of early childhood education classes from any community or regular college. You can apply at any preschool or daycare right now, but let them know if you are willing to take classes.

Also you will be fingerprinted and they will do a background check.

And it helps if you are CPR First aid certified.