In 2013 “The teacher professional standard” was adopted in Russia establishing uniform requirements for the content and quality of vocational educational activities. It assesses the level of qualification of teachers in employment and certification for career planning, as well as the formation of job descriptions and development of federal state educational standards of teacher education. Standard proclaimed basis for the formation of an employment contract, fixing the relationship between employee and employer. The teacher professional standard is a framework document, which defines the basic requirements for their qualifications. Standard makes demands to the personal qualities of the teacher, inseparable from his professional competencies such as willingness to teach all children, without exception, regardless of their inclinations, abilities, and characteristics of development disability. Introduction of the new teacher professional standard inevitably entails changes to the standard of their training and retraining in higher education and centers of excellence. A key objective of the paper will be to examine the new approaches to teachers’ professionalism in Russia in the context of the Russian teacher professional standard and the subsequent changes in teacher education.

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