The purpose of the article is to determine the values and meanings of a modern teacher in the national and foreign professional education. The results of the research work: the article provides the theoretical analysis and the analysis of the research results which allowed: to clarify the contents of the concept 'creativity', to define it as a significant side of every future teacher's activity; to consider pedagogical values as norms; to determine the basis of creative interaction between a teacher and a future teacher; to determine the strategy of acquisition of both pedagogical values and meanings and methods of construction of knowledge bases on pedagogical disciplines; to identify the possibility of objective evaluation of the results of pedagogical education; to reveal that a lecture is the main organisational form of pedagogical education both in Russian and foreign experience. Conclusions and recommendations: the socio-pedagogical, group and personal pedagogical values of any future teacher are determined.