The study examines the features of emotional empathy in future teachers’ professional development, addressing the need to significantly update content and ensure quality of professional training with focus on international standards, high teaching profession status, and modernized teacher education. The research recognizes professional development as a long-term process with targeted competence content
at different levels and stages of pedagogical activity. Methodology and Methods. The study was conducted
using a sample of 3rd and 4th year undergraduate students from Akhmet Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University and Peoples’ Friendship University named after Academician A. Kuatbekov. The research employed systematic assessment of professionally significant personal qualities, focusing on emotional and social empathy levels, with correlation analysis examining relationships between different empathy channels. Results. The main feature of future teachers’ professional training was identified as systematic work on assessing and improving levels of professionally significant personal qualities, particularly emotional and social empathy. The study revealed that the relationship of the intuitive channel of empathy is connected to identification and the emotional channel of empathy. A negative correlation was found between emotional and empathic abilities, providing insights into the complex nature of empathic development in future educators. Scientific novelty. The research contributes to understanding the specific features of emotional empathy development in future teachers’ professional preparation, establishing the relationship between different empathy channels and identifying previously unknown negative correlations between emotional and empathic abilities in pedagogical education contexts. Practical significance. The findings provide evidence-based approaches for improving teacher education programs by incorporating systematic assessment and development of emotional empathy, offering practical tools for enhancing professionally significant personal qualities and ensuring quality professional training aligned with international standards.