Professional training of teaching staff is an urgent task of science and practice of higher education. This article analyzes in detail self-education in higher education. The implementation of project activities is one of the effective ways to solve this problem. Teachers of modern preschool educational organizations are generalists, perform many functions, work in conditions of rapidly spreading innovative technologies and, accordingly, should be aware of current development trends. Self-education is a necessity for all employees of the educational sphere.

The authors of the article present the results of practical scientific and pedagogical research organized on the basis of the Pavlodar Pedagogical University named after A.Margulan.The article focuses on the experience of using the project method in the process of professional training for self-education of future teachers of preschool educational institutions.