The issue of future primary school teachers vocational training efficiency improvement is considered in the article. The paradigm of professional split-level competences development, its features, ways, technologies of application are ana-lyzed. The issue is studied in connection with students? practice-oriented training. The system of students? vocational training in pedagogical higher education institu-tions is undergoing profound changes in the last few years. On the one hand, it is connected with the insufficient interaction of theoretical and practical guidelines ex-isting in high school training. On the other hand, students are not provided with the evidence proving the importance and significance of obtained knowledge for their fu-ture professional activity. The analysis of modern scientific literature and teaching practice allows to draw a conclusion that graduates of pedagogical higher education institution experience split-level difficulties in initial mastering of ...