Alexander Alexeevich Semenov
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Vera Valentinovna Solovieva
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Andrey Stepanovich Yaitsky
Pedagogical activity is multifunctional in nature. Multifunctionality of the teacher's activity is obliged by the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standards of Higher Education as well as the teachers professional standard. Multifunctional training of future teachers is the process (and result) of mastering by the pedagogic bachelors and masters of set of competencies aimed at fulfilling various teacher functions. There are six basic functions of the modern teacher identified: pedagogical, project, research, methodological, managerial and cultural-educational. The pedagogical function is complex in nature and includes a number of other functions: tutoring, education, developing and correction. All of them are interrelated. The article outlines characteristics of mentioned above functions, describes the track record of training of future teachers at Faculty of Natural Sciences and Geography of Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education as part of baccalaureate and magistracy programs of pedagogical education. This consists of updating of courses content that are implemented according to the student selection, development and realization of new ones, organization and execution of training and production practices, educational and research works of students, scientific conferences, student competitions and olympiads, publication of scientific collected papers (including student ones). Article also presents the results of surveys of graduates on the quality of their preparation for the various teaching functions.