The article deals with one of the central tasks of modernizing today's education - the professional training of the future physics teacher, based on the demands and needs of society, which require a graduate of a pedagogical institution of sufficient level of competence to provide teachers of development, education and training in their further professional activity. Laboratory classes in the methods of teaching physics, on the one hand, solve the common problem for all types of classes in this subject - to prepare future teachers of physics for the organization of educational process in the modern secondary school, on the other hand - the main focus is on those parts of the classes in which a physical training experiment is used. This determines the way students develop appropriate competencies - conducting lessons in the form of business games, during which the course and performance of tasks depend on the actions of the teacher and students, whose role is played by the students themselves. It is in these situations that students experience the irrationality or falsity of their actions and, conversely, enjoy the pedagogical communication between them, which is the essence of the activity of task fulfillment. Separation of three groups of laboratory classes allows you to determine the stages of formation of competencies in the students of the methods and techniques of school physical experiment. The organization of laboratory classes in the methodology of physics combines the independent work of students with teamwork under the guidance of the teacher, which creates the conditions for achieving the goals of these classes in a relatively short time. The main feature of the organization of independent work of students in this type of classes is determined by the desire to implement the ideas of interactive learning. The focus is on active, independent, creative student learning activities. Therefore, this content and the organization of laboratory classes in the teaching of physics will help to find new, more effective ways of training future physics teachers.