6 Meaningful Jobs to Greeter

Promote Self-Esteem and This job involves greeting

children as they enter the

Build Social Skills classroom. They give

handshakes, pinky hugs,
or thumb touches as they
Classroom jobs allow children to experience
enter class.
responsibility, self-worth, inclusion, accomplishment,
and unity. When creating classroom jobs, it's
You can make an easy
important to ask yourself, "How will this job contribute
visual by printing or
to the greater good of the classroom?" and "What
drawing pictures on a
skills will this job help a child build?"
paper plate
Choose jobs for children based on their strengths.
Children can keep jobs for as long as it makes sense
to you as the teacher. The job should be something
the child enjoys and finds motivating. A powerful How would you
like to be
social-emotional strategy surrounding jobs is to have greeted?

children teach each other the roles (ex. the old greeter
teaches the new greeter how to do the job). Feel free
to be creative in inventing jobs that are meaningful to
your classroom community.

Morning Message Classroom

Absent Child Committee 
Writer Expert
This job can belong to a person or
This child's job is to write (Puzzle Expert, Tape Expert, Zip
committee. The job is to do Expert, etc. Based on Child
something for the absent child or draw a picture of a Strengths)

that communicates the message, welcoming and

encouraging message for This child's job is to
“we noticed you were gone. We encourage or help others
are glad you are back” It might be children to see as they
enter the room when they are struggling
a welcome back card, song, or to put a puzzle together,
video made on an iPad that gets use the tape dispenser,
sent to the child zip their coat, etc.

Calm Down Crew Accident Attendant

When a child gets hurt,

JOBS
The calm-down crew (or
the accident attendant
person), helps children
helps the teacher by
when they are upset by
bringing the band-aids,
checking on them in the
ice, etc. and comforting
cozy corner and modeling
the child who was hurt
how to take deep breaths
while the teacher
along with other calming
provides first aid (if
strategies.
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