This special edition includes works of international standing presented at the IV International
Forum on Teacher Education held on 22-24 May, 2018 in Kazan (Volga region)
Federal University (IFTE-2018)1. The changes taking place in the modern education
system make it necessary to improve the skills and professionalism of the teacher. The
main goal of modern education is to meet the current and future needs of an individual,
society and the state, and to prepare a diversely developed personality of a citizen capable
of social adaptation in society, self-education and self-improvement(Bolotov, 2014). A
free-thinking teacher, capable of predicting the results of their activities and modeling
the educational process is the guarantor of the achievement of these goals. Thus, the demand
for qualified, creatively thinking, competitive teachers, able to educate a person in
a modern, dynamically changing world, has increased sharplyKalimullin, 2014; Valeeva
& Gafurov, 2017).