Preschool Education Major In Secondary Vocational Students' Professional Identification Research

With the development of economy,preschool education has gained more attention and developed rapidly in recent years.Kindergarten and early childhood teachers have been increasing.Preschool education is the initial stage of life and critical period of human development.The key to the development of preschool education is a high-quality and specialization team of teacher's group.Preschool education in the secondary vocational school plays an important role in the teachers system.Preschool education major in secondary vocational students' professional identification has important practical significance to the development of preschool education.Professional identity is also an important factor for individual professional learning and career choice.It's related to the quality and stability of preschool teachers in China.Preschool education major in secondary vocational students' professional identification is the positive attitude and reasonable understanding of secondary vocational students majoring in preschool education to preschool teachers.Throughout the domestic studies on the professional identity of preschool education students,the author finds that the research objects are mostly college students and undergraduates.However,the research about the secondary vocational students is almost in blank.Therefore,I think it is necessary to study this topic.Through literature,interview and questionnaire,the researcher investigated 353 students in three grades of preschool education major in a secondary vocational school.This article is designed from four aspects including professional cognition,self vocational ability evaluation,professional values and expectation,occupation emotions and firmness,to evaluate the preschool education major in secondary vocational students' professional identification.The results show that the professional identity of vocational students in preschool education is in the middle level.And there are significant difference in grade.On the one hand,students lack knowledge of their major and profession,the evaluation of self professional ability is not high.On the other hand,they have a strong willingness to choose major,a strong teachers' role awareness,and a positive attitude towards becoming a teacher.And students' professional identity is affected by many factors,such as entrance policy,self-evaluation,salary,etc.The author think about the social conditions,school conditions and personal conditions to promote professional identity.And based on the reality of the school,the author puts forward some suggestions to further improve the professional identity level of preschool education in the school,such as improving the teaching conditions,fully preparing for the occupation,adjusting the curriculum,increasing the practice opportunities,strengthening the teaching supervision,improving the quality of teachers,increasing the investment in learning and facing up to the preschool education.