Stages of preparation of future teachers-defectologists for professional activity

The article deals with the problem of preparing future teachers-defectologists for professional activity as a result of training in a higher educational institution. The training of specialists is presented as an interconnected process that includes certain stages (motivational, activity, reflexive), the observance of which will increase the level of preparedness of students for professional activities. The problem is considered on the example of the direction of training 44.03.03 Special (Defectology) Education, profile «Oligophrenopedagogy».