Abstract
Nowadays the labour market demands a highly qualified specialist who is able to plan his/her work effectively, rationally apply the acquired knowledge in professional activities, competently build relationships with different categories of people to achieve the final result. In this case, theprocess of professional education has changed, the leading paradigm is the competence approach in determining the purpose and content, the result of training a specialist. Its main task is to create conditions for professional and personal development of a future specialist, as well as to provide him/her with quality knowledge, skills, and abilities, i.e. the formation of professional competences.This article provides justification for the relevance of using coaching as a means of increasing the effectiveness of the formation of professional competence of future teachers. In addition, the authors present an analysis of some basic problems of higher professional education in the conditions of Kazakhstan, considers the peculiarities of teacher's activity, onthe basis of which the essence and content of the concept of professional competence of future teacher, the content of the concept of coaching process are specified. The opportunities of coaching in the formation of professional competence of future teachers are described, the feasibility of coaching as a technology that ensures the development of personal and value components is shown.