1. With the rapid development of preschool education, there is an increasing demand for preschool teachers.
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 in China have added preschool education majors to train preschool teachers, they still cannot meet the needs of the whole society.
For example, Shanghai lacked more than 1600 kindergarten teachers in recent two years, and Guizhou Province lacked nearly 10,000 in 2004. The shortage of preschool teachers in Jiangsu province is particularly prominent. In the past three years, there have been nearly 20 kindergartens in Liuzhou every year, with about 300-400 kindergarten teachers, of which only 40% are kindergarten teachers. There is a big gap in preschool teachers.
2. Early education is in the ascendant, and early education talents are in short supply.
Early education is the general trend of preschool education in 2 1 century. The concepts of "the commanding height of talent training is in the primary stage" and "education begins at the age of 0" are increasingly deeply rooted in people's hearts. The intellectual development of children aged 0-3 is a new growth point of preschool education development and market demand. Some big cities in China have set up 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.
According to the teacher-child ratio of 1:5, which is common in early education institutions, there are a large number of early education personnel, but few teachers are familiar with the psychology of children of this age, and there are no institutions specializing in training early education personnel, which seriously restricts the development of the whole industry.
Although China's preschool education has developed rapidly in recent years, the enrollment rate of children has reached 40.75%, but there is still a certain gap with the overall goal of China's preschool education development-the enrollment rate of children has reached 55% in the first three years.
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, the supply of preschool education talents is in short supply, and preschool education will be one of the hottest 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 is 100%. In short, there is a strong demand for high-quality preschool teachers with college education, and there is a broad market for preschool education.
Preschool teachers are a professional profession and a kind of "public utility that requires teachers to have strict and continuous research in order to acquire and maintain professional knowledge and skills". 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.