There is proved that pedagogic education possesses unused reserves of modernization that consist in the possibility of strengthening of its absolute influence on the progress of all the life spheres of society, region, country through teachers able to work with the development processes and bring up the generation of innovators. In the context of this idea there are revealed the aims, mission, principles and strategic directions of development and modernization of the Academy of Pedagogic Education as the innovative substructure of the Southern Federal University.