PRE-SCHOOL AND PRE-PRIMARY TEACHER TRAINING: TEACHERS UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL NECESSITY

The aim of pre-school education – taking into account child's innate powers, his/her individual experiences, referring to the regularities of development to help a child to develop the fundamentals of independence, healthy lifestyle, positive communication with adults and children, creativity, knowledge about the environment and the country, knowing how to learn. The purpose of pre-primary education – to help a child prepare to successfully learn according to the curriculum of primary education. Both pre-school and pre-school teacher's goal – to help the family to educate pre-school and pre-school age child. In Lithuania pre-school and pre-primary education teachers are trained both at universities and at colleges. In the society it is often discussed whether for a teacher who works with pre-schoolers – little citizens of the country – it is enough to have higher non-university (college) education of higher university education is obligatory. In the present essay the concepts of pre-school and pre-primary education have been used because a teacher having obtained the qualification of a pre-school educator still has no possibility to work with pre-primary age children until he/she obtains these complementary competences. Analysis of scientific literature and documents allowed making the conclusions about the particularity of children of pre-school and pre-primary age, the importance of the role of pre-school and pre-primary education teachers in developing children's personalities, the differences of these teachers' training at universities and colleges and teachers university educational necessity.