Purpose: Challenges conveyed by teachers in developing teacherpreneur include difficulty in balancing learning theory and practice. The ability to manage time between as a teacher, housewife, or manage a business so that it is less focused on carrying out the profession as a successful teacher are just some of these challenges. The purpose this research is to examine the optimisation of early childhood teachers as agents of teacherpreneur, as they are required to be creative and innovative so that they can produce creative, innovative and innovating generations. Methodology: The methodology consists of qualitative research as this study aims to describe in-depth efforts to optimise the potential of early childhood teachers. The research was carried out at early childhood centre Gugus Melati Jaten- Karanganyar. The samples consist of 40 early childhood teachers. Data was collected through direct interviews with early childhood teachers then analysed using source triangulation. Result: The results show that many potential teachers can be developed so that they can become active and productive teacherpreneurs. The potential developed will later be able to provide benefit to teachers, students and schools. Value: The innovation is to optimise teacherpreneurs from early childhood educators and the recommendation is to build a training program to increase teacherpreneurship. © 2020 Primrose Hall Publishing Group.
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