Abstract
This article reveals the analysis of domestic and foreign experience in the development of an educational program for a teacher-researcher training. Within the framework of the competencebased approach it makes possible to formulate a number of positions regarding the status of an "educational program" and five principles for developing a modular educational program for undergraduate students, which also includes the formation of future teachers' research competencies. The experimental work was realized on the basis of scientific literature analysis, tests, questionnaires. Statistical data processing was accomplished by SPSS Statistics Program, moreover, the authors applied the Mann-Whitney U-test.