This article actualizes and analyzes the issues of continuous professional development of teachers, diversification of forms and technologies of such development. In this regard, the factor of innovativeness, the features of the educational environment of the school are considered as motivators for the teacher to change the methodology, mastering modern means and tools of teaching, control and evaluation activities. The purpose of the research, the results of which are presented in the article, was to establish the sources and directions of the teacher's value self-determination in an innovatively saturated educational environment. Based on the theoretical analysis of the problem, the essence of the concepts of "personal meaning" and "personal choice" is clarified, the importance and special significance of value self-determination and semantic choice for representatives of the teaching profession is emphasized. The article presents and analyzes the results of a study conducted by the author with the participation of fifty-three teachers of general education organizations, which made it possible to clarify the positions related to their semantic choice and professional self-determination in an innovative educational environment. The article notes the need to develop and implement at the school level a set of measures to manage the quality of innovation, improve the properties of the innovation environment, including the formation of motivation of teachers to participate in innovation, the interest of teachers in the creation and introduction of new products, pedagogical practices.

Keywords: innovative activity; semantic choice; values; self-determination of a teacher in an innovative educational environment.