Monograph . Novosibirsk, 2013. 158 s. Annotation. The monograph discusses modern approaches to the definition of the concept of professional competence of a teacher . The methods of competence development of the teacher in the conditions of the existing system of professional development are analyzed in the most detailed . This paper identifies key areas for improving the content and technologies of postgraduate education, the primary task of which is to prepare an innovatively-oriented, competitive personality. What , According to the authors, possible through the creation of a new model of professional development , providing for the diagnosis of the actual development of the professional competence of the teacher , Prospects for its development , Continuous monitoring of this development , implementation of a specially developed technology for the formation of constructive interaction and the formation of an individual "I - concept" of the teacher .