Annotation. Timoshenko O.V. The ways of optimization professional preparation of future teachers of physical culture according to development of modern education in Ukraine. In this article the structural and functional model of optimization of professional preparation of future teachers of physical culture is presented. Exposed its structural elements and it is indicated on the ways of improvement of professional preparation according to the requirements of development of modern education in Ukraine. It is set, that only complex improvement of all structural elements of professional preparation, and not only its separate constituents will give possibility considerably to optimize professional preparation of specialists in high schools.
