Oksana Gordienko

Training of professional teachers is necessary for constantly updating Russian education, striving to meet all the social needs of modern society and quickly respond to systemic technological, scientific and methodological development in the field of education. They should not only possess special knowledge and professional skills, but also be able to quickly find new original solutions to professionally oriented problems, make informed decisions based on existing professional ideas, skills, experience and value systems. These should be specialists with well-developed professional thinking and creative abilities. Thus, the relevance of creative abilities development for future teachers of the Russian language in the classroom cycle is due to the requests of society for the school to prepare a harmoniously developed personality who can find creative solutions. And the solution of the of modern society development problems depends on the methodological training of a teacher who has well-developed professional thinking and who knows how to choose methods and techniques for the development of creativity among students. The purpose of this article is to work out and describe creative methods and techniques for the development of linguistic and methodological thinking of future Russian language teachers as one of the most important means of developing their creative abilities. The methodological foundations were the provisions of the following research areas in linguistic methodology: systemic, personal activity-oriented, creative, axiological and functional ones. As a result of our work, we created and described a system of methods that may be interesting and useful to teachers of methodological disciplines in universities that train teachers for the system of education.