A Study On Pre - Service Training Of Preschool Teachers In California Since The 1980s

The nature of preschool education is the enlightenment education and thefoundation of education projects.preschool teachers is the guidance andenlightenment of young children, which is directly related to the level of earlychildhood teachers. Cultivating and improving the teacher for preschool education isconsidered as the very important issue in California, and high quality preschoolteachers grow up by the pre-service education.On the basis of analyzing the background of the pre-service training forpreschool teacher in California, the paper attempts to describe and analysis thepre-service training system on institutions, courses, teacher certification system fromthree aspect.In order to understand the the pre-service training for preschool teacherin California. It is also attempts to investigate the main features and problems ofpre-service training.Finally it explores the way of pre-service training which issuitable to Chinese, combined with Chinese reality and made the Calforniapre-service training as a mirror.This article is divided into eight chapters, chapter one is an introduction,including topics reason, the basic definition, and literature review and researchmethods, purpose and meaning. Chapter two is the history and the background of thepre-service training for preschool teacher in California.chapter three、chapter four、chapter five form a sensorial understanding of California kindergarten teacherpre-service training system. Chapter six and seven describe the characteristics andproblems of the California pre-service training. The last chapter suggested usefulinspiration to China on the basis of absorbing the available experience of theCalifornia pre-service training and combined with Chinese reality.