The study deals with basic foundations for todays understanding of the teacher profession and the preparation for it. It analyses the social and personal implications of the globalization process for a human being that are mirrored in new requirements for the role of formative education, role of school, understanding of a child. The worldwide crisis of the teacher profession requires aimed steps towards the strengthening of a teacher's status in society as well as profound reforms of teacher training. Postmodern plurality influences the existence of various ahead-pushed models of teacher training worldwide.