The article addresses the problem of developing educational standards to ensure effectiveness,
quality, comparability and resource development. One of the most important tools for
solving these problems is to develop local educational standard for a federal university. The
development and implementation of these standards can have an important systemic effect on the
development of a regional system of pedagogical education. The article presents the draft of the
local educational standard of the Southern Federal University in the areas of teacher education.
Keyword(s) : professional standard
Requirements of professional standards as a basis for professional development of students
Significance of the studied problem is confirmed by the fact that currently the system of higher
education in the Russian Federation is focused on the search for optimal solutions to adapt the
structure and content of higher education to the requirements of professional standards. The
Ministry of Education and Science of Russia has already started to approve new Federal State
Educational Standards of Higher Education adapted for professional standards, which will enter
into force at the end of 2017. In this regard, educational institutions of higher education will get a lot
of work aimed at organizational, didactic and methodical support for the transition of educational
process to new Federal State Educational Standards of Higher Education. The purpose of this article
is to justify and describe the model for creating space for the professional development of students,
aimed at development of their professional competencies in the field of physical education and
sports. Simulations are applied as the leading research method allowing to consider the professional
development of the future graduates in the framework of a specially designed didactic system of
competence-based format. The article shows that the space of professional development is formed
in didactic systems of the metric competence-based format between the areas of knowledge and
abilities development synchronized with the requirements of relevant professional standards.