Early childhood educators care for the social, emotional, physical and educational needs of infants and young children in various care settings. Early childhood educators may perform the following tasks: plan and implement developmental programs based on observation of individual children observe and record children's growth, behavior and development, and discuss these with parents integrate children with special needs into the program, modifying the schedule and the physical environment if necessary prepare play and learning materials and set up the children's environment supervise children's play, ensuring their physical safety at all times guide children's behavior and social development maintain a safe, clean and appealing environment perform basic first aid in emergencies.