Introduction. The article discusses the problem of personal orientation of future teachers for professional activities, theoretically substantiates the need to regulate the interrelated processes of developing regulatory and personal Universal Learning Activities and social and personal competences that affect the formation of intrapersonal motivation for professional activities. The methodological basis of the research is the concept of Universal Learning Activities of A.G. Asmolov, system and competence approaches in higher professional education, subject-humanistic attitude to education.
Purpose of research is to highlight the components of the university educational environment that contribute to the formation of intrapersonal motivation for learning activities though regulation of interrelated processes of developing regulatory and personal Universal Learning Activities and social and personal competencies.
Methods. The following instruments were used in the course of the research: the scale of professional competence assessment of Ferrandes-Berrueco, Reina and Sanchez-Tarazaga; the questionnaire of students’ learning activity of I.S. Labytseva, the methodology of diagnosing students’ motivation for learning of S.M. Ketko, S.A. Pakulina.
Results. The results of the complex diagnostics of professional competencies and motivation of students for learning reveal lack of student activity reflecting social purpose and personal orientation of their professional judgments. The potentials and methodological characteristics of using case technologies are defined with the purpose of developing students’ regulative and personal Universal Learning Activities in the process of continuous pedagogical practice.
Conclusions. Purposeful formation of regulatory and personal Universal Learning Activities with the subsequent development of social and personal competencies is aimed at the enhancement of intrapersonal motivation for learning, personal interest and responsibility towards professional activities. Optimization of the process of professional training of preschool and primary education teachers assumes formation of an educational environment that considers individual motives of everyone’s professional activity in the teamwork.