Valuable aspects of prospective teacher’s professional identity development

The paper actualizes one of the most important problems of modern higher education – prospective teacher’s professional identity development. The authors study the history of the problem of identity, analyze the main theoretical approaches to the essence of the concept from the point of view of foreign and domestic scientists, and provide options for planning horizontal and vertical career of the teacher. The paper presents the results of the study of pedagogical university students’ value orientations in the context of planning their career strategy. The experimental sample of respondents consisted of full-time students of Physical, Mathematical and Technological Education Department of the Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University named after I.N. Ulyanov. They were diagnosed by F. Herzberg’s method, aimed at identifying the predominant role of hygienic factors or motivators in the career, as well as by Edgar H. Schein’s «Career Anchors» method, used to determine the leading professional motives. The results of the study were subjected to a thorough analysis. The paper presents comparative data of the diagnostics. The obtained materials can serve as a starting point for further theoretical and practical development of the problem of successful prospective teacher’s professional identity development.