Tasks of a kindergarten teacher

Whether in Germany or other countries, taking care of many kids at once brings a lot of skills and tasks you need to have and do!

For example:

• Cheer kids up in the morning
• Always come up with new games and craft ideas
• Give band aids, and band aids for the soul
• Listen to many unbelievable stories
• Saying the same thing 20 times in a row
• Show and teach numbers and letters
• Show and teach how to put on clothes and shoes by themselves
• Make sure they wash their hands after going to the bathroom
• Being able to tell from 10 to 20 kids how much and what they ate for breakfast and lunch
• Know when games might become fights
• Settle fights and make them be friends again
• Being able to say stupid things and do crazy ones
• Washing dishes or cleaning the floor at top speed
• Changing diapers or soiled clothes
• Motivate kids to drink, or even to play
• Find kids outside easily
• Always know where the 20 children are hiding
• Know the current trends and things of kids tv shows and movies
• Prepare food and give the right sized meals to everyone
• Make braids, and always have several hairbands at hand
• Always have tissues at hand
• Being able to calm/quiet down kids writhing a minute
• Doing 5 things at once
• Motivate kids to clean, and so help at top speed
• Give hugs and cuddles
• Make sure that each kid knows how to cut, glue, write, count, speak,....at age appropriate level
• Make parents understand that their offspring is not always an angel
• Remember parents 10 times for the same thing to bring
• Wait with kids and keep them company of parents come to pick up late
• Be ready to change plans at any minute
• Know how to make them like fruits and vegetables 
• Cutting fruits and veggies at top speed, but safely
• Know when sand is too wet to play
• Making messy crafts even if you know.you have to clean up by yourself after
• Cooperate with colleagues and come up with common themes and ideas
• And on and on it goes!

The goal of pedagogy

When i was studying at university, one of my professors liked to say that the goal of pedagogy in itself is to make itself redundant and not necessary anymore...

I understand why he said it, as the goal of education in general is usually looked as helping people to become independent,  and to be able to lead their live independently.

But! Society keeps changing, and so should the goals of education and pedagogy, shouldn't they? In a society where everything is in constant change, it has to help people to learn how to get along with the change, and how to find stability with it. In a society that is rather stable, it can encourage people to go out and explore, and to go out of their comfort zones.

Education has to adapt to the current needs of a society, while also taking into account how things might change in the future. Especially when it is about educating children!

I think the main point why pedagogy might have a goal of making itself obsolete, is that everyone should learn how to adapt to changes and different situations, and 'learning how to learn'. But even this is something that has to be taught!

Pedagogical situations happen everywhere, between all kind of people, not only with students and teachers. So that it one day should not be needed anymore, is kind of an utopian idea, I think.