2. What does a Day Care Provider do?
• They watch kids for parents while they are at work
• Provide learning, games, fun, naptime, meals, and much more for kids during
the day. Usually around 7 AM to 5 PM.
3. Skills
• Communicate by speaking clearly, understand others, write clearly, listen and
ask others questions, read and understand work related materials
• Reason and Problem Solve by noticing when something is wrong, determine
others strengths and weaknesses, concentrate while doing work, follow
guidelines, develop rules, think of creative ways to solve problems, draw
conclusions
• Manage Time of yourself and others
• Work with People look for ways to help people, be aware of others reactions,
teach how to do something, persuade others to do something differently
4. Interests and Values
Interests
• Social- to be with little kids and to
help them with personal
development by communicating
teaching, giving advice, helping,
and service to others.
• Artistic- work with activities that
deal with artistic forms, designs,
and patterns to self express.
Values
• Consider relationships important in
a friendly environment.
• They like doing things for others
and prefer doing things they are
not pressured to do or go against
their sense of right and wrong.
7. Helpful High School Classes
• Childcare
• Child Development
• Food and Nutrition
• Parenting
• Psychology
• Safety and First Aid
• Accounting
• Entrepreneurship
• Introduction to Business
8. Helpful High School Classes at MHS
• Child Development
• Food Science
• Foods I and II
• Psychology
• Accounting
• Intro to Business
9. Post Secondary
You do not need a
college degree for this
job. However you do
need a Child Care
Provider license in
Minnesota. If I were to go
to college I would get a
2-year degree in Early
Childhood Education.
10. Ridgewater College-Willmar
I would go to Ridgewater because it is less expensive ($5,370 a
year) rather than a State or 4 year college and it is decently close
to home. I really don’t want to go to school for another 4 years
when I could just be getting experience. So 2 years is a
compromise for me.
11. Licensing in Minnesota
• Background check
• House check by a fireman
• First Aid or CPR training
12. Barriers
• Childcare providers do not make a
ton of money so I would need to
find a husband and get married
• Childcare license in Minnesota
• Early Childhood Development
degree
13.
14. Why?
• I love being with people and children
• I want to help others learn and grow
• I can greatly impact kids’ lives
• I can still stay at home and be with my
own kids
• I don’t have to have 4 years of college
15. Job Salary and Openings
Minnesota:
$19,000 $9.14
31,199 openings, very large
US:
$18,290 8.79
1,260,600 openings, very large
Wage can also depend on how many kids you watch,
their ages, and the number of hours you work. You
may have to pay for your own insurance.
16. My MCIS Results
• Skills:
• Caring
• Social
• Creativity
• Listening
• Information Gathering
• Safety of Others
• Negotiating
• Personality Type
• Social (61)
• Enterprising
• Artistic
17. Self-Evaluation
• I think that I have the right skills to be a day-care provider such as being
responsible, fun, artistic, caring, patient and social
• I also want to help others and I can do that in this job.
18. Reality Check
• I would not make enough money on my own to provide. Hopefully, I would be
married by then so that my husband can also have a job to provide for us.
• I would need to have a nice enough house to take care of all the kids for the
day and have toys to play with.
• Depending on how much money my husband would make, we would have to
be careful of what we buy.
