Early teachers, also known as early education instructors, are teachers who are engaged in consultation, guidance, consultation and teaching of infant care, education and parenting for 0-6 years old, and do not belong to knowledge education; Different from kindergarten teachers, early education not only educates children, but also educates parents, especially mothers. Early education can be divided into preschool teachers, parent-child teachers, teachers who feel integrated, Montessori teachers, Orff music teachers and home-based early education.

As a professional education, early education involves infant physiology, psychology, pedagogy, nutrition, brain science, female psychology, thinking science, business science, learning science, family education and other disciplines, which is beyond the understanding and mastery of ordinary parents. So the early teachers were quite professional.

As a professional education, early education lays the foundation for people's life development. Scientific early education can lay a good foundation for the healthy growth of children's physical quality, psychological quality, intellectual quality, personality quality and spiritual quality, and it is the most basic, important and indispensable education in the process of life growth. The global education community has formed a kind of knowledge, and early education is more important than preschool education.