The article emphasizes the importance of reflexive competence in preparing a future teacher for professional pedagogical activity. Reflexive competence occupies an important place among the teacher's competencies. The reflexive competence of the future teacher is manifested only in activity, pedagogical interaction and communication and is reflected in the organic unity of professional knowledge, special skills and values. The use of reflection in professional activity allows the future teacher to ensure the transfer of experience in the process of developing general cultural and professional competencies, to ensure independence, responsibility for the results of professional activity at the required level, to develop the ability to self-control and self-esteem, as well as to ensure a dynamic transition from incomplete education to a full understanding of the prospects of personal development of the teacher.

The recognition of reflexive competence as the key to the future teacher's activity gives grounds to assert that the formation of skills that ensure it in modern educational conditions is a necessary condition for the preparation of future teachers of this profile who are ready to fulfill the tasks assigned to society, striving for self-development, self-education, self-improvement.

Keywords: reflection, competence, reflexive competence, professional and pedagogical activity, conditions, component, development, stage.