As an Early Years Teaching Assistant, you will need to master following:

• assess the development of youth

More generally, an early years teaching assistant is also versed in:

• assist children in developing personal skills
• assist students in their learning
• assist students with equipment
• attend to children's basic physical needs
• children's physical development
• encourage students to acknowledge their achievements
• give constructive feedback
• guarantee students' safety
• handle children's problems
• implement care programmes for children
• kindergarten school procedures
• maintain students' discipline
• observe student's progress
• perform playground surveillance
• provide lesson materials
• provide teacher support
• support children's wellbeing
• support the positiveness of youths
• workplace sanitation

It also helps to know the following:

• facilitate teamwork between students
• provide after school care
• teach kindergarten class content
• common children's diseases
• curriculum objectives
• escort students on a field trip
• first aid
• learning difficulties
• liaise with educational support staff
• maintain relations with children's parents
• organise creative performance
• perform classroom management
• prepare lesson content
• promote the safeguarding of young people
• teamwork principles