Kindergarten teacher (upper level) - Salary and Career
Teachers of higher education in early childhood education

Kindergarten teacher (upper level) - Career description, activities, functions and salary

They promote education and the teaching-learning relationship of children up to six years old, take care of students, plan educational practice and evaluate pedagogical practices. They organize activities, research, interact with family and community, and perform administrative tasks.

How much does an Kindergarten teacher (upper level) earn

A Kindergarten teacher (upper level) earns between $1.447 and $5.177 per month, with an average monthly salary of $2.673 and a median salary of $2.832 according to an Averwage.com salary survey along with to data of professionals hired and fired by companies in the labor market.

Our research is based on the salaries of 26.678 professionals hired and dismissed by the period from 06/2021 to 05/2022 (last year).


Salary ranges for the Kindergarten teacher (upper level)

Monthly Salary Annual Salary Salary Per Week Hourly Salary
Average wage 2.673 32.071 668 14
1º Quartile 1.447 17.369 362 8
Median Salary 2.832 33.988 708 15
3º Quartile 3.948 47.381 987 21
Higher Salary 5.177 62.128 1.294 28


Professional job categories

  • Science and arts professionals
    • teaching professionals
      • teachers of higher education in early childhood education and elementary school
        • teachers of higher education in early childhood education

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Main workplaces

Teachers of higher education in early childhood education they exercise their functions in educational institutions, public or private. They are statutory or hired as salaried workers, with a formal contract, they work individually, with occasional supervision, in closed environments, usually during the day. They may be exposed to the action of intense noise, in the development of some activities.


What does it take to work in the field of Teachers of higher education in early childhood education

The exercise of these occupations requires higher education in the area of education and public service, in the case of public schools.


Functions and activities of Kindergarten teacher (upper level)

Teachers of higher education in early childhood education must:

  • promoting the teaching-learning relationship;
  • organize activities;
  • organize the activities;
  • evaluate pedagogical practices;
  • search;
  • promoting student education;
  • interacting with family and community;
  • demonstrate personal skills;
  • promote student education;
  • research;
  • perform administrative tasks;
  • caring for students;
  • planning educational practice;
  • plan educational practice;
  • interact with family and community;
  • promote the teaching-learning relationship;
  • planning the educational practice;

  • Activities

    • changing diapers and clothing in general;
    • establishing educational objectives and goals for the group of students;
    • demonstrate creativity;
    • carry out thematic visits;
    • demonstrate willingness;
    • call parents of students;
    • singing;
    • search extracurricular activities (theatrical activities, exhibitions);
    • buy material;
    • dramatize stories and everyday situations;
    • planning the students' routine;
    • promote awareness of citizenship rights and duties;
    • scheduling daily activities;
    • expose content;
    • improvising activities;
    • search teaching resources;
    • establish routines;
    • evaluate cognitive development;
    • demonstrate ability to make decisions;
    • conducting parent meetings;
    • bathing students;
    • prepare the environment for activities;
    • dancing;
    • select material;
    • fill documents with student information;
    • demonstrate self-control;
    • correct work with students;
    • request material;
    • review the planning;
    • demonstrate joy;
    • guide on notions of hygiene;
    • control student departure;
    • providing clarification to parents;
    • forward to medical care in emergency cases;
    • proceed with diaper removal (sphincter control);
    • perform self-assessment;
    • follow meal;
    • select teaching resources;
    • mediate conflict situations in the group;
    • teaching parent meetings;
    • pass homework;
    • assisting students in putting on clothes;
    • demonstrate discipline;
    • welcome new students;
    • setting limits;
    • guide on eating habits;
    • promoting meetings and activities with parents;
    • organize the activities space;
    • demonstrate sensitivity;
    • log occurrences;
    • define the syllabus of the school year;
    • record interviews with parents;
    • preparing projects for interaction with the community;
    • preparing adaptation of special cases;
    • show patience;
    • sending communications to parents;
    • create learning situations;
    • developing collective work;
    • teaching classes;
    • feeding students;
    • deal with cultural, social and economic diversity;
    • organize teaching material;
    • study cases (special situations);
    • organize meal;
    • save material;
    • demonstrate a good mood;
    • demonstrate physical fitness;
    • work areas of knowledge;
    • walking with students;
    • document the observations;
    • organize student arrivals and departures;
    • demonstrate dynamism;
    • reading to students;
    • elaborate student evaluation reports;
    • probing students' prior knowledge;
    • guide on notions of safety;
    • prepare parent meeting;
    • building didactic material;
    • preserve equipment, spaces and furniture;
    • observe student interaction;
    • organize birthday celebrations;
    • organize events;
    • promote social coexistence (socialize);
    • intervening in risky situations for students;
    • serving parents;
    • evaluate psychomotor development;
    • demonstrate common sense;
    • playing with students;
    • defining pedagogical strategies;
    • participate in professional courses and training;
    • receiving parent communications (agenda, circular);
    • forward communications to parents (notices of out-of-school activities, leave of absence);
    • writing for students;
    • show attentive;
    • storytelling;
    • demonstrate empathy;
    • creating didactic resources;
    • check material;
    • demonstrate oral comprehension skills;
    • welcoming students;
    • estimate material requirement;
    • tracking sleep time;
    • demonstrate ethics;
    • preparing pedagogical projects;
    • develop artistic activities (painting, modeling and drawing);
    • probing the needs and potential of the group;
    • promote integrative activities;
    • participate in community events;
    • show patience;
    • organize the teaching material;
    • establishing norms and rules of conduct;
    • search contents;
    • proceed to remove the bottle;
    • re-elaborate planning;
    • give first aid;
    • keep up to date;
    • educate students;
    • observe student behavior;
    • programming extracurricular activities;
    • get bibliography;
    • elaborate assessment instruments;
    • participate in meetings and meetings (coordination, teachers);
    • guiding parents about healthy eating;
    • review rules of conduct with children;
    • recognizing the characteristics of the group and subgroups;
    • discuss specific cases with the coordination;
    • serve students individually;
    • record student attendance;
    • analyze learning situations;
    • demonstrate organization;
    • prepare the room;
    • organize student arrival and departure;
    • evaluate socio-affective development;
    • accompanying students in recreational activities;
    • demonstrate flexibility;
    • group students;
    • browse bibliography;
    • forward documents and reports to the secretariat;
    • define student grouping criteria;
    • invite personalities and entities;


    Sectors that hire Kindergarten teacher (upper level) the most in the job market

    • child education - day care
    • activities of associations for the defense of social rights
    • child education - pre-school
    • general public administration
    • elementary school
    • associative activities
    • welfare services without accommodation
    • support activities for education
    • high school
    • activities of associative organizations linked to culture and art




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