The article substantiates the relevance of introducing information about the artistic direction into the training of future technological education specialists; attention is paid to the importance of art education during training of future teachers. It has been established that the future teacher of technological education must possess professional competencies that increase the efficiency of designing and manufacturing decorative and applied art products, which include competencies in the basics of compositional activity. In order to form these competencies, the educational process of training future technology teachers should include information that can enrich students with theoretical and practical knowledge and skills in fine and decorative and applied arts in the content of both basic and elective disciplines. Emphasis is placed on the expediency of studying the main concepts, laws and means of compositional activity in the process of training specialists in the field of technological education, the content of the main concepts, laws and means of composition is revealed and the importance of their application in the process of designing and manufacturing products of decorative and applied art is proven; the advantages of students’ use of professional competences in the design process are revealed and their effectiveness in the implementation of creative tasks is shown. It has been established that having mastered the basics of compositional activity during the design and manufacture of decorative and applied art products, students will be able to practically solve rather complex tasks of creating aesthetic compositions that will correspond to the selected material and the functional purpose of the object decorated in the process of artistic and labor activity.
 Keywords: professional competences; composition activity; technology teachers; decorative and applied art; design of products.