This unit introduces the role of childcare workers and their responsibilities in caring for young children. This unit has vocabulary review, reading and listening practice, comprehension tasks, and speaking tasks.

What Childcare Workers Do

This unit describes the daily routine of childcare workers and the responsibilities they have throughout a typical shift. This unit includes vocabulary review, reading and listening practice, comprehension tasks, and speaking tasks.

A Day on the Job

This unit introduces the responsibilities of childcare workers in keeping children safe and responding to health concerns. This unit includes vocabulary review, reading and listening practice, comprehension tasks, and speaking tasks.

Keeping Children Safe

This mid-course assessment checks vocabulary and comprehension of the first three units in this English for Childcare Workers course.

Mid-Course Assessment

This unit models the communication between childcare workers and parents and the procedures for keeping children safe. This unit includes vocabulary review, reading and listening practice, comprehension tasks, and speaking tasks.

Talking with Families

This unit introduces the importance of documentation and recordkeeping in childcare settings. This unit includes vocabulary review, reading and listening practice, comprehension tasks, and speaking tasks.

Keeping Records

This unit introduces strategies for helping children manage separation anxiety and adjust to new routines. This unit includes vocabulary review, reading and listening practice, comprehension tasks, and speaking tasks.

Supporting Every Child

This final assessment checks vocabulary and comprehension of the final three units in this English for Childcare Workers course.

Final Assessment

Childcare workers play an essential role in supporting young children's safety, growth, and well-being. In this course, students learn about the work of childcare professionals while reviewing important English vocabulary and phrases related to daily routines, child development, safety and health, communication with families, documentation and recordkeeping, and workplace responsibilities.