1. With the rapid development of preschool education, the demand for preschool teachers is increasing.

With the improvement of people's living standards, preschool education in China has developed rapidly. In 2004, the number of kindergartens in China reached 20.894 million, an increase of 4.5%; The number of kindergartens increased by 4,638 compared with 2003, an increase of 4%; The number of classes increased by 28,876, an increase of 4%; The enrollment rate of children aged 3-6 was 40.75%, which was 3.35 percentage points higher than that in 2003. One year before entering school, the enrollment rate of children was 7 1.8%, which was 7.5 percentage points higher than that in 2003.

With the rapid development of preschool education in China, the demand for preschool teachers and administrators has increased sharply, and the demand for preschool normal graduates is in short supply. Although in recent years, some colleges and universities all over the country have added preschool education majors to train preschool teachers, they still can't meet the needs of the whole society. For example, the gap of preschool teachers in Shanghai in recent two years was more than 1.600, and that in Guizhou Province in 2004 was nearly 10,000. The shortage of preschool teachers in Jiangsu province is particularly prominent. In the past three years, Liuzhou has added nearly 20 kindergartens every year, with about 300-400 new kindergarten teachers, of which only 40% are pre-school education graduates. There is a big gap in preschool teachers.

2. Early education is in the ascendant and there is a shortage of early education talents.

Early education is the general trend of early childhood education in the 265,438+0 century. China Demographic Yearbook shows that there are 70 million infants aged 0-3 in China, including 0-3 children109,000 in cities. The concepts of "the commanding height of talent training is in the primary stage" and "education begins at the age of 0" have been deeply rooted in people's hearts, and the intelligent development of children aged 0-3 is a new growth point for the development of preschool education and market demand. Some big cities in China have established early education institutions for infants aged 0-3, but there are few or no early education institutions in some medium-sized cities and county-level cities. At present, there are only three early education institutions in Liuzhou. The teacher-child ratio of early education institutions is 1:5. There is a huge demand for early education personnel, but few teachers are familiar with the psychology of children of this age, and there is no university specializing in training early education personnel, which seriously restricts the development of the whole industry.

3. China-ASEAN cultural exchanges have been strengthened, and there is a serious shortage of preschool teachers in China.

With the establishment and development of "China-ASEAN Free Trade Area", "Chinese fever" continues to heat up in Southeast Asian countries, and the scope of Chinese teaching is shifting from the original universities and middle schools to primary and early childhood education. He Yixian, director of the teaching and research section of the Chinese Education Coordination Agency in East Java, Indonesia, said that overseas Chinese education has now developed to "start with dolls", but the most prominent problem is the serious shortage of kindergarten teachers. In Indonesia alone, there are more than 20,000 Chinese teachers, including Chinese kindergarten teachers.

(B) the development prospects of preschool education.

Although preschool education in China has developed in recent years, the enrollment rate of children has reached 40.75%, but it still lags behind the overall goal of preschool education development in China-the education rate of children in three years before school has reached 55%.

There is a big gap between the present situation of preschool education and the goal of development planning. To shorten this gap, a large number of high-quality preschool teachers are needed, and this gap provides a huge employment market and life stage for preschool education professionals. Judging from the employment situation in 2005, there is a shortage of preschool education talents, and preschool education specialty will be one of the hot majors in employment for a long time to come. In Chongqing, where the enrollment rate is high (74.5% in 2004), the employment rate of children's art and sports graduates reaches 100%. In a word, there is a strong demand for high-quality preschool teachers with undergraduate and junior college degrees, and the market prospect of preschool education specialty is broad.

With the increasing demand for preschool teachers, the quality requirements for preschool teachers are also improved accordingly. According to the investigation, kindergartens urgently need preschool education graduates who love preschool education, have high academic qualifications, have certain teaching and scientific research ability, have a new understanding of preschool education, have solid basic teaching skills, have comprehensive skills and have a good attitude, and are willing to work in kindergartens for a long time. The characteristics of pre-school education graduates in higher vocational colleges, such as strong professional awareness, high skills, basic theoretical knowledge system and wide knowledge, meet the requirements of society for preschool teachers.

Preschool teachers are a professional profession and a kind of public utility that requires teachers to acquire and maintain professional knowledge and skills through rigorous and continuous research (UNESCO's proposal on the status of teachers). In China, such professional knowledge and skills are learned through pre-job training. At present, preschool education in colleges and universities is the main body to train preschool teachers.

(3) Career development:

1, teacher or child consultant-starting salary 1000 ~ 2000 yuan/month.

2. Children's development assessment and guidance personnel, policy makers of children's education and healthy development, and children's education consulting experts-working in pediatric clinics of relevant government agencies and major hospitals, starting salary 1000 ~ 1500 yuan/month.

3. Children's column program editor-working in newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations and other media, starting salary 1500 ~ 2000 yuan/month.

4. All kinds of children's product development consultants or market research and analysis professionals-starting salary 1500 yuan/month.