The notion of normal elements for finite fields extension was generalized as k-normal elements by Huczynska et al.(2013).Several methods to construct k-normal elements were presented by Alizadah et al.(2016) and Huczynska et al.(2013),and the criteria on k-normal elements were given by Alizadah et al.(2016) and Antonio et al.(2018).In the paper by Huczynska,S.,Mullen,G.,Panario,D.and Thomson,D.(2013),the number of k-normal elements for a fixed finite field extension was calculated and estimated.In this paper the authors present a new criterion on k-normal elements by using idempotents and show some examples.Such criterion was given for usual normal elements before by Zhang et al.(2015).