Annotation
The article is devoted to preparing future teachers to use innovative educational technologies in the context of digitalization of education. The authors reveal the main goal of innovative educational technologies, conduct a comparative analysis of traditional and innovative teaching methods. Also, based on the research work carried out , it reveals the main features that distinguish innovative activity from innovation-oriented activity: the level of significance of new ideas, the level of changes made; the level of adjustment of its actions. It is stated that in the modern global information society, the most important quality and one of the competitiveness criteria for any specialist is the level of readiness for innovation.
Key words: digitalization of education, innovations, training of future teachers to use innovative educational technologies, innovative activity, activity in an innovative orientation.