It is impossible to successfully carry out education without teachers and educators. Their role, abilities and competences are irreplaceable and important for working with children. It is important to know how to direct children to the right values in life, to respect others, parents, friends, but also lifelong learning. Preschool education is the beginning of the education system. It covers children from the age of 6 months until they start school. Already in preschool age, children adopt the values we teach them, and the role of the educator is great in preparing the child for life. The educator reflects and shapes his actions in working with children. This is a professionally trained individual whose didactic, pedagogical and methodical professional training comes to the fore in his work with children. It is important to point out that in addition to the educator's knowledge of general, developmental and pedagogical psychology, human qualities and abilities also play an important role: love for children, creativity, democracy, respect for the child and children's rights, love for the teaching profession. Professional competence is an essential characteristic of educators, with which educational activity and the child's success as a result of that activity are closely related. This paper highlights the importance of the role of educators in educational work. It studies the teaching profession and the identity of educators. It defines the competencies that an educator should possess for quality work with children. Through six different areas, he investigates what quality pedagogical practice of educators should look like. It describes what educators do to improve their work with children, as well as their own practice. In the last chapter, he defines the role of the modern educator in the educational process.