Recently, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council called early childhood education "early education" in their overall decision to solve the population problem, which is the first step to improve the quality of the population. Early education is a new community education and modern service industry based on family, relying on community, aiming at improving the quality of the born population, and providing scientific parenting for infants and their parents aged 0-6. Its professional targets are mainly engaged in early childhood education in families, communities and kindergartens.
There are about1500-20 million newborns and about1200,000 infants aged 0-6 years in China every year. Most of them live in families and communities. How their quality relates to the development of children, the happiness of families, the prosperity of the country and the future of society. We should understand the significance of developing early community education and improving the quality of the born population from the strategic height of rejuvenating the country through science and education and the strategic vision of sustainable development.
Since the 1990s, with the social and economic development of our country and the improvement of people's awareness of the importance of early education, early education institutions have emerged, such as service institutions that provide early education tutors for communities and families, parent-child parks that recruit infants and parents to participate in parent-child activities. On the other hand, kindergartens have successively entered the park for infants under 3 years old, realizing the integrated education of infants and young children. In China, there is a great demand for early education teachers in various private kindergartens. The existing early education practitioners have neither received systematic pre-service training nor formal vocational training, so it is difficult to be competent for early education, and the gap of qualified teachers is large, which has become a bottleneck restricting the development of early education.
According to statistics, since the 1990s, China's early education accounts for about 1/3 of the total family education expenditure, which is obviously higher than the growth of family income and faster than the growth of GDP, and has become a hot spot of consumption. As a new profession, early education tutor has a very broad employment prospect. Nurses, nurses and domestic nannies are far from meeting the needs of society. The market is calling for a new profession-the emergence of early education tutors.
Abroad, since the 1990s, the international community has shown unprecedented concern for early childhood education. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) gives priority to the comprehensive development of young children, emphasizing that children have the best start in life. This strategic work is family-centered, society-based, and managed through effective cost control. For example, the famous "Start Plan" and "PAT (Parents as Teachers) Project" in the United States insist on starting education from the first day of children's birth, bringing training programs into families, and improving parents' scientific parenting level and ability.
Occupation is divided into three levels: assistant early teacher, early teacher and senior early teacher.
Application requirements
Application conditions (meet one of the following conditions)
(a) assistant early education instructor (equivalent to the national vocational qualification level 3), mainly engaged in the education of 0-6-year-old infants, family planning cadres, nurses, parents of infants and young children.
1. Fresh graduates with kindergarten teacher (senior high school) or equivalent.
2. Those who have been engaged in baby-rearing for more than one year and have considerable practical experience.
(two) early education instructors (equivalent to the national vocational qualification level 2), mainly engaged in the 0-6-year-old community preschool education curriculum teachers.
1. University graduate or equivalent.
2 engaged in preschool education for more than one year, with considerable practical experience.
(3) Senior Early Childhood Instructor (equivalent to the national vocational qualification grade), mainly engaged in the management, scientific research and professional training of community early childhood education institutions aged 0-6.
1. Those who have passed the first or second level vocational training in early education and have been engaged in related work for more than one year.
2. Bachelor degree or above or equivalent.