The article is devoted to one of the main components of the professional competence of a modern teacher – competence in the field of information and communication technologies, namely, information and digital competence. The article gives an overview of the terminology used in foreign and domestic scientific literature. The analysis of researches revealing the essence and content of competence of the future teacher in the field of ICT is carried out. On the basis of analysis and generalization of information on the proposed topic, a complex of pedagogical conditions regarding the formation of information and digital competence of future teachers in the process of studying the informatics disciplines is considered. The article explores the ways of development and the conditions for the formation of information and digital competence of future educators. Information competence is considered as the ability of the student to search, to process the information received using modern technology. The studied experience testifies to the urgency of the problem of development of information and digital competency of teachers.