Innovations in the Professional Activity of Teachers as a Leading Reference Point of Work of Institutions of Higher Pedagogical Education

The article reveals the current problem of preparing future teachers to work in conditions of modernization of the education system, the rapid introduction of various innovations in professional teaching activities. Innovation in education is considered as an approach and method that provides a planned qualitative change of professional relations in educational institutions in the direction of strengthening the innovative potential of the educational environment to solve the problem of training future professionals to work in the informatization of educational space, implementation of inclusive approach and non-discrimination and other innovation challenges. The innovative component of the functions of modern school teachers is revealed and characterized, which become extremely multiple and, in addition to the traditional didactic, provide consultative, diagnostic, correctional and developmental, organizational and methodological, medical and social and others. Based on the study of the experience of training future teachers in free economic education and the results of the survey of higher education and teachers, it is established that special attention in the educational process should be paid to modernizing the content of education and improving training technologies for future professionals. It is proved that such methods and techniques are effective in teaching pedagogical disciplines, in which the applicants themselves take an active part in learning, gaining innovative professional experience.