Introduction. The subject of the study in this article is a theoretical understanding of the role of professional competitions to ensure the safety of children on the roads in the development of pedagogical skills of educational workers. It is argued that the competitive participation of creative teachers demonstrating the best integration practices serves as confirmation of the continuity of pedagogical education, its qualitative progress. A model of improving pedagogical skills in the field of child traffic safety based on the ideas of axiology, integration, communicativity in competitive professional activities is justified. Its leading functions and stages are defined. Scientific reasoning is based on the results of the examination of inter-subject road safety projects presented as part of the All-Russian Pedagogical Festival (Moscow, 2021), conducted by employees of the Department of Human Physiology and Life Safety of Mininsky University.Materials and Methods. The materials were the results of an expert assessment of competitive projects (273) of interdepartmental and integrative training of children in safe behavior on the roads, carried out by teachers of 43 constituent entities of the Russian Federation. Analysis and evaluation of author's projects was carried out on the basis of a system of diagnostic methods, revealed in domestic and foreign works, and formatted within the framework of the Pedagogical Festival. The objective and objectives identified the need for analysis methods, including comparative; generalizations and systematization, forecasting and modeling.Results of the study. Formation of a modern scientific idea of professional competitions as effective means of continuing education and substantiation of the model of improving pedagogical skills in the field of child traffic safety based on the implementation of integration projects in competitive professional activitiesDiscussion and Conclusions. The merits of professional competitions in the understanding by teachers of their own experience and reflection in the direction of further self-realization in the context of new educational strategies have been revealed; it was concluded that it is necessary to model the professional improvement of teachers in the training of children in road safety in the logic of integrative design activities and diverse communicativity.
