Introduction. Taking into account the increasing need of the state for qualified workers and mid-level specialists, the requirements for the quality of training of a teacher of vocational education, who is directly responsible for the result of the educational process in the system of secondary vocational education, are also changing. Based on the integrative nature of the activity of a teacher of vocational education, which presupposes them mastering several components of training, special attention should be paid to industrial training. It can contribute to the practical development of the future subject area and is directly related to the field of professional activity of future graduates of secondary vocational education.
Аim. To find possible ways to improve industrial training as an independent and fullfledged component of vocational pedagogical education, taking into account its current state and identified problems.
Methods. Bibliographic analysis of scientific publications and the study of normative legal acts, synthesis of the information received, an inductive method for studying the place of industrial training in the preparation of a teacher of vocational training and the formulation of conclusions.
Results and scientific novelty. The conducted research made it possible to concretise the concepts of “industrial training” and “training of a teacher of vocational education in the profession of a worker (position of an employee)”; to determine the essential characteristics and current state of industrial training; to provide a description of the requirements for the training of a teacher of vocational education in the profession of a worker (position of an employee), taking into account the existing deficits in their industrial training. Potential ways of improvement of industrial training as a part of training of a teacher of vocational and pedagogical education were developed.
Practical significance. The results of the study can be used in the practice of educational institutions of higher education in the implementation of training programmes for teachers of vocational education.
Funding. The research was carried out within the framework of the state task of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation “Theory and Methodology of the Formation of a Content Update System in the Framework of Teacher Training in the Conditions of Transformation of the Russian Economy” (fundamental research, No. 073- 00104-22-01).