The child adopts, learns and develops his speech and communication from birth. The child learns speech from his speech patterns. The first child's model is the child's primary caregivers or parents, but also the environment in which the child grows up. Going to kindergarten expands the child's environment and communication with adults, and the educator becomes an important part of the child's life, or growth and development. Therefore, it is important for the educator to be a good language model in the development of the child's speech as well. The educator communicates with the child in a verbal and non-verbal way, using primarily "I-messages". In addition to the child, the educator communicates with other participants in the educational process, and his speech is reflected in the writing of pedagogical documentation and during visits, walks and trips with children. The educator must constantly develop communication skills and abilities in order to achieve good cooperation with both children and their parents. The educator uses the Croatian standard language in his work, but working in a kindergarten that is part of the local community and shares its characteristics, including language, and with children who come to kindergarten as speakers of the idiom used in that community, the educator will occasionally, depending on the communication situation, use the dialect method of communication. The paper describes the characteristics of the child's speech and communication and the educator's speech and his communication skills and abilities in educational work. The paper also brings a survey conducted in May 2021 in which 74 respondents, kindergarten teachers, in the Podravina, Koprivnica-Križevci County, participated. The aim of the research was to examine educators on the use of the Croatian standard language and the Kajkavian dialect in educational work. It examined whether educators use the Kajkavian dialect or the standard language in their work, and the opinion of educators on the use and nurturing of Croatian dialects in educational institutions. Also, they wanted to examine whether there is a difference in the use of the Kajkavian dialect with regard to the age of the respondents and work experience. Respondents filled out a survey questionnaire online, and statistical data processing was done in IBM SPSS Statistics 20. The results of the research show that educators use more Croatian standard language in their work and that there is no difference in the use of Kajkavian dialect with regard to age and work respondent experience. Also, the results showed a neutral attitude of the respondents about the use and nurturing of Croatian dialects in educational work.