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The paper reflects the urgent problem of method competence development of a teacher of professional subjects in vocational mining schools. The article analyzes “method competence” notion, which is a prerequisite of successful method activity of teachers of professional subjects in vocational mining schools. The author considers research aimed at studying teacher’s professional competency and focuses on development of method competence. The publication reveals requirements to professional qualities of a teacher of professional subjects and peculiarities of a teacher of engineering subjects in vocational mining schools. The paper represents research data in concern of method competence level of teachers of practical and theoretical knowledge in vocational mining schools in Donetsk, Lugansk and Dnepropetrovsk regions of Ukraine. It reveals organizational and pedagogical conditions of method competence development when training qualified specialists of mining industry; they are development of method competence motivation of teachers, enhancing motivation in order to achieve teachers’ self-development and their professional training; flexible applying of regional method data base to enhance teachers’ self-development in vocational mining schools; consideration of pedagogical activity at its different stages (introspection, self-evaluation, self-reflection); getting pedagogical experience when providing scientific and pedagogical communication. Conditions defined are closey related to each other and make a complicated structure of teacher’s professional qualities development.