1. Preschool education mainly refers to preschool education for children aged 3-6, and primary education refers to the learning and education of children in grades 1~6.
2. Primary education is compulsory, but preschool education is not. Primary education is the basic education of school education in China, and preschool education is the basic education stage of school education in China.
3. Preschool education includes not only education, but also conservation. Children's age characteristics and physical and mental development needs not only determine the universality of kindergarten education objectives and contents, but also determine the educational and teaching principles of combining protection with education. Preschool children's physical and mental development is not yet mature, and their self-care ability is poor. They need the care and care of teachers, who need to take care of all aspects of children's eating, drinking and having fun. Teachers should ensure the healthy and harmonious development of children's body and mind, so kindergarten teachers should not only have certain knowledge of conservation but also have enough patience. As for primary education, children at this stage have a certain self-care ability, so primary school teachers will worry less about their children's lives and pay more attention to their study and life.
4. Preschool education has the characteristics of life and play. Life-oriented is mainly due to the immature thinking development of preschool children, which is in the stage of perceptual action and concrete image, and the learning methods are mainly perceptual experience, hands-on operation and personal experience, so preschool education must be life-oriented, and education should include life content; Gamification is one of the basic principles of early childhood education, mainly because games meet the age characteristics of young children and can meet their various physical and mental needs. Games are essentially children's own free and spontaneous subjective activities, which have many values for children's development. In kindergarten, children's learning form is mainly games, and they play games most of the time. Preschool education is to cultivate children's interests, not focusing on learning, but on the development of hobbies. The main learning form of primary education is not games, but classroom teaching. Compared with kindergarten, the activity time is less, and the primary education requires more content, which is different from preschool education in terms of knowledge structure, capacity and depth.
Let's talk about the requirements of preschool education and primary education for teachers:
Compared with the requirements of primary education for teachers, pre-school education requires teachers to have professional knowledge and ability, not only to understand the knowledge of this major, but also to understand scientific and cultural knowledge and artistic knowledge; You need not only the ability to educate and teach, but also the ability to cultivate, play and rap. At the same time, you need more patience and like children better. You need to never leave your feet and always pay attention to your children, which is a great safety hazard. The requirements for primary school teachers will be relatively low, and the most important thing is the ability to educate and teach.
Finally, talk about two from the employment prospects:
At present, the employment prospect of preschool education in big cities is better than that of primary education, because with the continuous strengthening of the overall strength in the field of education in recent years, the requirements for the quality of teachers are getting higher and higher. Every year, a large proportion of graduates enter primary school, because the level of middle school is really difficult to reach, and general graduate students have to start. In this way, the employment opportunities of students majoring in primary education will be eaten up by more than half, and it is difficult for students majoring in primary education to enter preschool classes in kindergartens because there is an essential difference between kindergarten teachers and teachers. So there is a dilemma in both aspects. But on the whole, preschool education is still stable, especially with the liberalization of the second child policy, the younger age of preschool education and the more common demand, which will drive the development of this industry. My answer is for reference only, and the key lies in my own choice.