Professional education of a foreman in a vocational training school includes: 1) learning the operational structure of the professional activity, 2) acquisition of the professional motives, and 3) acquisition of the craftsmanship as such. Some indicators of the professional growth are suggested (objective measures of productivity, level of professionally significant qualities, level of professional motivation, self-appraisal of results of one's own activity); their dynamics in the process of professional study is presented.