Innovations in teaching arose as a need to help traditional methods and means to achieve goals that have been set, but which traditional ways of working and behaving in teaching are not achievable, due to numerous changes in the modern world. The child of the modern world requires a different approach to work, complete individualization and commitment, with unlimited freedom. In these segments, traditional teaching makes serious mistakes, which is why innovative models are needed to improve it, such as project teaching. Project learning, as an innovative model in teaching, is the topic of this paper, through the description of its requirements, purpose, the role that the educator and the child have in it. The most important answer is how important project learning is in preschool education, when the foundations are laid for further work and development of children.