We many times teach them things that they will not be learning at home. Hello everybody, welcome to my channel. This is Christina. Today we're going to talk about misconceptions that people have about preschool teachers. Before I get into the topic, if you're new to my channel, I make lifestyle videos where I talk about my deaf free journey, how to save money. So if you're interested in watching more videos like that, we still forget to comment, like and subscribe and click that red button down below. I post videos twice a week. So I feel like the main misconception that people have about preschool teachers is that we are like babysitters or we are babysitters. I've met some parents that treat preschool as a babysitting service, but it's more than that. So the definition of a babysitter is the care of a child or children while parents are out. And yes, as preschool teachers, as any teacher, it doesn't matter what grade you teach. You're technically taking care of this child while the parents are working. With babysitting, it's more like what it could be while the parents are out like literally out going out on a date or something like that or to a special event. As teachers, that is yes, that is part of it, but there is more to it as a preschool teacher. We're doing more than just playing with them and making sure they're safe physically. As preschool teachers, we spend a lot of time teaching them how to be kind and how to be good citizens of their community. We many times teach them things that they will not be learning at home. Not only are they learning how to write their name, read and count and make scientific predictions, but we are doing so much more with them. We are giving them those pre readiness, school readiness skills that they need so that they can be successful when they do enter kindergarten and so on and so forth. What else are we doing? Preschool children are learning how to problem solve. They're learning how to listen and follow through with directions. They're learning how to focus for a long period of time. Of course, in a preschool classroom, we're not going to have the children sit down and do work for more than 15 minutes. But if they are able to sit down and do an activity for a long period of time, that is practice for when they actually go to another school, maybe to a more traditional school, where they expect the children to be sitting at their desk and completing work or reading for a long period of time. We are teaching the children to learn how to share, to learn how to communicate with their peers, to learn how to negotiate with their peers. Can I have a turn where you're done? I'm going to use this for five minutes and then I'll give you a turn. Those are skills that you need to be able to socialize with other people because when you are older in school or out of school, you need to learn how to socialize, how to communicate with others, how to work with others. You're going to be working in a lot of group settings with co-workers, with peers, school projects. So that is something that they start learning when they enter preschool. We are teaching them how to listen to their bodies, how to be aware of their body, some of the children come into school, not fully potty trained. Some of them are not aware when they have to go to the bathroom, some of them are not aware when they're too close to their friend, and then their friend thinks that they're pushed, that they're being pushed by them. They're still learning about the space around them. We are teaching them how to identify and express their feelings and emotions, and identify how their peers are feeling. We are teaching them how to move their bodies. These little humans oftentimes don't have great balance. So we are teaching them how to be aware of their surroundings. We are teaching them how to sit and eat at the table. We are teaching them manners at the table, and there's still so much more. There's another misconception that people have. People think that as preschool teachers, because there's nap time, we're just chilling during nap time. We're just scrolling through our phones the whole time, doing nothing. That is something that a babysitter would do, I'm sorry to say. But a teacher, we are very busy during nap time. During nap time, we are prepping activities for when they wake up. We are prepping the activities for the next day. We are less implanting for the next week. We are preparing the snack for when they wake up. We are sending out emails. We are making phone calls to parents if need be. Nap time is not 100% a time for us to just rest. So in conclusion, we are here to help the children grow socially, emotionally, physically, and cognitively. So I believe, and all of us believe, that we deserve as much respect as an elementary school teacher, middle school, and high school teacher. Let me know in the comments down below if you are a teacher and what grade you teach. And if you're not a teacher, let me know if you know of a teacher. You know, if they are a family member or a friend, I'm curious to know. I'll be seeing you guys in my next video.