Support of pre-professional development of high school students focused on teaching professions

All teaching professions are at high importance for children, their parents, and society at whole. Teachers, their skills and personality, play a big role in the development and education of young generations. Children usually make decisions to be a teacher at young ages, and support in this decision, pre-professional development helps them to be a good teacher in the future. There are different programs and method which help schoolchildren in this process. In this article few topics had been discussed: results of all-Russian monitoring of pre-professional education of high-school students, focused on teaching professions; main factors of vocational choice; forms and methods of pre-professional support. The main questions of our study were as follows: under what conditions within the framework of the system of General and High Education it is possible to help the high-school students determine the near and far prospects of his personal and professional development before entering Teaching University or College, what should be the content of this work? Few programs, existing in various regions of the Russian Federation are discussed. The conditions for the pedagogical support for the formation of professional readiness for further teaching were identified: the creation of a specially organized educational and socializing environment, such as pre-university programs, or school-based programs (local or Regional); different kinds of Olympiads and competitions; taking into consideration the characteristics of students.