Keyword: «portfolio method»

Portfolio method is innovative method in the course of training of future teachers to design and technological activity. Application of the portfolio method in the classroom for design and manufacture of modern clothes allows each student to engineer and manufacture clothes, creating his own project portfolio using advanced computer technology. Professional competence in the field of fashion design and professional commitment to design and technological activity are formed when future teachers create project portfolio.

The paper aimed at understanding of professional-personal self-development of educational psychologists. The paper clarifies the essence of the concept “professional self-development, analyzes the structural components and the criteria of professional self-development”. The portfolio method of professional development and summary of the experimental study are described.