1.  Basic knowledge of health care is required.
2. Understanding of:
2.1. mathematics;
2.2. informatics;
2.3. biology;
2.4. business basics;
2.5. history;
2.6. politics and law;
2.7. the social security system in Latvia;
2.8. ethics, religion;
2.9. the role of animals in a child’s life;
2.10. business etiquette;
2.11. professional terminology in the official language and one foreign language.
3. Ability to apply knowledge of:
3.1. the official language;
3.2. one foreign language at the communication level;
3.3. basics of pedagogy (general pedagogy, family pedagogy, preschool pedagogy, healing pedagogy);
3.4. organization of training and the process of education;
3.5. the basics of psychology (general psychology, personality psychology, communication psychology, social psychology, group psychology);
3.6. ) interactions and impact on individuals of various characteristics (for example, social, genetic, biochemical;
3.7. human structure and physical and mental development, and behavioural pre-conditions;
3.8. human internal (psychological, physiological, mental) and external (physiological, social, and psychic) environment interactions;
3.9. sexual education;
3.10. the standard of professional performance of a social educator;
3.11. work planning and organization of a social educator;
3.12. household, apparel, commodities (food, non-food products);
3.13. family budget planning, record and reporting;
3.14. human rights, children’s rights;
3.15. work and the requirements of Occupational Health and Safety Regulations;
3.16. first aid;
3.17. children nutrition lessons (nutrition, rational and medical nutrition, diet, nutrition hygiene);
3.18. organization of children’s nutrition;
3.19. household basics;
3.20. sanitation and hygiene;
3.21. basics of using household appliances;
3.22. organization of creative activities for children;
3.23. organization of movement training for children;
3.24. celebration traditions;
3.25. children’s literature;
3.26. basics of music;
3.27. basics of rhythm;
3.28. basics of handicraft;
3.29. uses of nature materials;
3.30. arrangement of a room and its surroundings;
3.31. legal labour relations;
3.32. labour safety;
3.33. environmental protection.

1. To work in a team.
2. To understand the team’s work style.
3. To provide reasoned oral and written information.
4. To solve problem issues in a professional way.
5. To master speech and behaviour culture.
6. To organize children’s group activities.
7. To organize a child’s daily regime.
8. To organize meals for children.
9. To organize creative activities for children
10. To organize events that stimulate a child’s development.
11. To build a child’s empathy and tolerance.
12. To comply with work safety, fire safety, electrical safety and environmental protection requirements.
13. To comply with work and personal hygiene requirements.
14. To understand the characteristics of a child’s age, to raise a child’s self-awareness.  
15. To master different educational knowledge and training methods.  
16. To understand the environmental impact on the formation of a child’s personality.  
17. To build mutual trust and respectful relationships with other children.
18. To cooperate with social services, family courts, and educational institutions.
19. To promote a child’s interaction with his/her biological parents.  
20. To cooperate with biological parents.
21. To be able to unite children with different previous experiences and habits into one group.
22. To promote a child’s creative behaviour and imagination.  
23. To play with a child.
24. To promote a child’s communication with their peers.
25. To create a child’s understanding about sexual education.  
26. To organise a child’s recovery, addiction prevention.
27. To build a child’s understanding regarding professional orientation.
28. To arrange a homely environment, to clean the rooms.  
29. To prepare meals according to a child’s age and health features.
30. To teach domestic skills.
31. To comply with requirements for product use and storage.  
32. To plan family budget.
33. To speak in the official language.
34. To speak in one foreign language at a professional communication level.
35. To use professional terminology in the official language and one foreign language.

1. The ability to evaluate a child’s state of health and to identify signs of disease in a child, to make decisions and organize the relevant activity. The ability to organize and provide the child’s recovery and addiction prevention in a professional way.
2. The ability to act adequately in crisis situations and provide first aid.
3. The ability to lead a child’s socialization process and gradual integration into society by helping them to learn society norms and requirements, as well as the ability to promote the formation of a child’s identity and self-confidence and the ability to teach the child to understand the importance of communication skills in relationships.
4. The ability to prepare and provide a safe and homely environment where the child can realize their potential, and to recover, if needed.
5. The ability to provide care and healthy nutrition for a child, and the ability to choose nutritional products, to perform their pre-treatment, and to prepare them for storage according to their type by using kitchen utensils and dishes.
6. The ability to organize a child’s daily schedule, develop their intellect and creative skills during lessons, training, at work, and relaxation.
7. The ability to perform a child’s understanding regarding a homely environment, to educate the child of the necessary cleaning of room, house, and environment. The ability to offer a child the notions of safe and harmless health conditions at home, to promote the acquisition of knowledge regarding safety, health protection, fire safety and electrical safety requirements at home.
8. The ability to perform child’s understanding and ability to comply with road safety requirements.
9. The ability to perform understanding regarding gender issues and to follow up a child’s sexual education according to the child’s age.
10. The ability to provide knowledge of work and the process of a child’s professional orientation, considering the child’s abilities and interests.
11. The ability to force the development of personal hygiene skills in a child, as well as the ability to create a child’s interest in everyday life events by developing their perceptions of nature, the environment, and social life activities.
12. The ability to maintain positive emotional relationship with a child, ensure good relationship in an educational group.
13. The ability to summarize information to create an individual development plan for a child, considering the child’s age, characteristics, and needs, to lead the implementation of the plan.
14. The ability to cooperate with other specialists to create special skills and abilities for children with special needs, complying with the implementation of the child’s individual development plan.
15. The ability to cooperate with other specialists in a child’s social education.
16. The ability to cooperate professionally with a child’s biological parents, also institution representatives in family courts, and educational and medical institutions.
17. The ability to practically use normative documents (for example, laws, regulations, guides) in the process of a child’s social education.
18. The ability to manage households of educational child groups, the ability to prepare an educational children’s group budget expense documents, as well as to organize their circulation, the ability to control the budget of an educational children’s group, to provide expense records and to take responsibility for financial documents.
19. The ability to communicate and to comply with the principles of interaction, to be discrete, tolerant, and to facilitate the use of these principles by your own example, the ability to comply with the norms of cultural behaviour and decency.
20. The ability to comply with labour safety, electrical safety and fire safety requirements at work.
21. The ability to choose an environmentally friendly type of household.
22. The ability to communicate in the official language and one foreign language.