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The article deals with the ways to strengthen the professional and pedagogic purposes of the educational process at a pedagogical higher school; specifies the features and stages of development of the professional and pedagogic position as the criterion of the efficiency of the system of didactic conditions of future technology teachers training.

The article deals with the prospects, potential and features of the useof intellectual cards as the efficient innovational instrument of pedagogic techniques of a modern teacher. The authors give the detailed description of the aspects of the use of intellectual cards aimed at making the educational process efficient and developing the key competences of pupils.