SUMMARY
This article deals with the problem of shaping the need for self-realization of a future physical education teacher, which is particularly acute in modern society, where social requirements for the teacher are becoming more and more rigid and categorical, and the conditions for the manifestation of pedagogical creativity are significantly reduced due to the introduction of a multilateral regulatory framework teacher's work. Under these conditions, it is difficult for a teacher to choose a vector and methods for realizing their own potential in their professional activities. This problem is discussed in the article on the example of future physical education teachers. The aim is to determine the qualitative characteristics of the need for self-realization of the future teacher, reveal the stages and mechanisms of its formation in the structure of higher education and present the rhizome model “Formation of the need for self-realization of a future physical education teacher” developed by the authors. The article presents the results of the author's study of the procedural and effective characteristics of the process of forming the need for self-realization of future physical education teachers. The stages and mechanisms of this process are described and the rhizome model “Formation of the need for self-realization of a future physical education teacher” is proposed and scientifically substantiated. The materials can be used to organize events for the formation and development of the need for self-realization of subjects of secondary vocational, higher and additional vocational education.