Keyword: «home teacher»

The article reveals the cultural, historical and pedagogical reasons for the emergence of a new form of teacher training in female gymnasiums in the period under study – an additional peda-gogical class; the structure, content, forms, methods of training are analyzed. The importance of pedagogical classes for the social status of girls, the assertion of a position independent of men in society is shown. The possibility of using the valuable experience of these classes in the activities of modern specialized pedagogical classes is shown.