Preschool teachers as profesionally trained persons for working with children of early age and preschoolers encounter multiple challenges and requests on a daily basis, and take on many different roles in the period of their teaching. Latest findings concerning early education and the contemporary perception of a child and their childhood are in need of a continuous development of the existing, as well as the acquisition of the new competences. The acquirement of these competences starts with the initial teacher education, which is only the first step in the process of an educators's professional development, and that continues with their vocational training. Lifelong education and learning are a legal obligation of every educator. Therefore, the goal of this master's thesis is to determine the forms of lifelong learnining of educators that are represented in the Zagreb County kindergartens. The thesis consists of a theoretical and a research part. The former entails the teaching profession, the related professional competences, and the professional development of educators throughout the process of lifelong education and learning, which incorporates forms of vocational training in the Republic of Croatia. The latter describes the research conducted using an online survey questionnare aimed at the preschool teachers in kindergartens in the Zagreb County. 122 subjects took part in the survey questionnare. The goal of this part of the thesis was to determine the differences in the representation of individual modalities of lifelong education and learning concerning kindergartens located in the urban area and those located in the suburbs, and also to discover which forms of the vocational training are represented among the educators. The research shows which factors influence the choice of a particular form of vocational training, and the subjects' answers to the open-ended questions indicate their need for vocational training, but also give information about what form of vocational training they consider most efficient, most important, and lastly most profesionally stimulating.