ENThe paper highlights the characteristics of pre-service music teachers’ professional experience of implementing the teaching practice goals. The qualitative analysis determined categories which revealed the teaching practice spheres (relations with pupils, mentors and other teachers, personal self-education and professional development) that conditioned the students’ positive experience. The research revealed that positive experience during the teaching practice depends on the collegial interaction with pupils, mentors and other teachers, the ability to interest the pupils in the subject of music, efficient plarming of a music lesson and feedback. Keywords: teaching practice, positive experience, reflection. [From the publication]