The paper discusses the possibilities of professional development of young teachers in teaching activities in connection with the modern challenges of society, and tasks that should be solved by this development, and also the circumstances, under which this development can occur. In order to do this, a distinction in understanding of professional development in the everyday and scientific views was made, the content, adequate to the study of professional development in teaching was formulated.

The article also contains hypotheses, a description of research strategy and the first data of the research, conducted on the basis of the social project, which is being carried out in Krasnoyarsk Krai – “The Youth professional pedagogical games”. Based on the obtained data, preliminary conclusions on the possibilities of constructing professional development in pedagogical activities were made, and the problems and prospects of the project were described.