Personal and professional self-realization of students in specialized higher pedagogical education

The aim of this study is to substantiate that specialized teacher training programs (Master's level) contribute to the successful personal and professional self-realization of students. The article elaborates on the concept of personal and professional self-realization of students, identifies its criteria and indicators in specialized higher education, discusses the means of its development in the learning process, and presents and analyzes the results of the testing of specialized higher education programs in the field of Teacher Education at the Faculty of Elementary Education. The research demonstrated that personal and professional self-realization is a criterion for the effectiveness of an educational program and determines the methodological system for designing and implementing a second-level higher pedagogical education program, which constitutes the novelty of this study. As a result, the following means of designing programs that take into account the development of students' personal and professional self-realization in the process of second-level higher education were identified: strengthening the connectedness of professional and university communities, activating students' reflexive resources in the training process, varying program construction, and designing differentiated tracks for mastering the program, taking into account target groups of students.