International Journal of Education

In the era of rapidly developing New Quality Productive Forces, the digital transformation and intelligent upgrading within the education sector have placed new demands on early childhood teachers. Cultivating innovative early childhood teachers represents not only an update to traditional educational models but also a significant enhancement of future education quality. This text primarily elaborates on the importance of fostering innovative early childhood teachers and explores the new competencies required of them in the context of New Quality Productive Forces. By analyzing the problems existing in the current training of early childhood teachers in China, it proposes five strategies to accelerate the cultivation of innovative early childhood teachers: strengthening the concepts of innovation and lifelong learning; optimizing training content; improving the integrated pre-service and in-service training mechanism; rebuilding a multi-stakeholder participation evaluation system; and establishing an innovation incentive mechanism.

New quality productive forces; Innovative early childhood teachers; Cultivate innovation