Ukrainian pedagogical community active discusses the problem of the competence approach to the activity of modern teacher of vocational school, in connection with the modernization educational processes taking place in Ukraine. The purpose of modernization of domestic vocational education is to combine the traditions of Ukrainian pedagogy and foreign experience in shaping the student's personality, capable of active independent action, which will create a dynamic, mobile, competitive model of the domestic system of vocational training of specialists for various industries and service sectors.
 The content of the article highlights the features of innovation processes in the system of Ukrainian vocational education. The authors reveal the relationship between the growth of the level of innovative competence of the teacher and the effectiveness of the realization of his creative potential in the process of development and implementation of modern educational practices in educational and organizational, scientific and methodical work in vocational education institutions. The article identifies and analyses innovative aspects of development of methodical competence of a vocational education teacher.