Development of creative thinking as a condition of professional formation of a teacher of vocational training

The article considers scientific approaches to the concept of creativity, creative thinking and the conditions for its development in the conditions of organizing competitive activities of university students. The authors emphasize the binary nature of the process of education a teacher of vocational training: from one side, the students’ own creativity and activemental activity, from the other, the opportunity to teach the methods of creative activity to others. The authors support the position of scientists that creativity and intelligence interact in the process of development and encourage to the making of professional consciousness.