This article will focus on psychological methods of studying and developing the professional competence of teachers working in the public education system of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

in St. Petersburg analysis in the context of the use of retro-innovations to ensure the optimization of professional training of future teachers in the context of modernization of the domestic education system. A brief assessment of the role and place of the phenomenon of «retroinnovation» in the context of reforming education system in Russia and in the NorthWest region on the example of Saint Petersburg.