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The article is devoted to the study of the specific features of a kindergarten teacher’s professional position and is based on the materials of the questionnaire survey involving 320 caregivers from Moscow daycare centers. One of the most important factors affecting the child development is the nature of the educational strategies preschool care-givers use when interacting with the child. Special attention is given to the analysis of educators’ target orientations, the specifics of the style of their relationship with the child, teachers’ emotional well-being when dealing with children and the forms of control (reward and punishment) they use in response to the child’s behavior. The analysis of the materials pays special attention to the influence of various factors (the caregivers’ educational level and work experience, children’s age) on a caregiver’s idiosyncratic professional position.

The article deals with the immediate prospects for those teachers employed in children public organizations (CPO) in the context of implementing the Federal Preschool Educational Standard for the education of disabled infant and young children with various developmental disorders. It presents practiceoriented materials designed to help CPO educators in their work with special needs children in infant and early ages. Some infants and young children with developmental deviations have not been diagnosed as yet and neither have the peculiarities of their deviant development been identified. This has had a negative impact on their development in leaving out sensitive and favorable periods for leveling off their development. CPO teachers working in infant and young children groups may be the first to reveal such children’s individual characteristics and special educational needs. They are in a position to choose a differentiated approach to organizing the type of interaction these children require. The main objective of this article is to help a preschool teacher to acquaint oneself with the organization and content of the psychological and pedagogical corrective educational process in regard to physically challenged infant and young children in CPOs.