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Abstract: The paper justifies the experts’ assessment as the main method of research of secondary vocational school teacher’s readiness to teaching. The peculiarities of this method, when it is used to assess the staffing potential in secondary vocational school, are described. The experts are heads of vocational educational establishments, their deputies and teachers. The experts’ conclusions are proved to be reliable with the help of factor analysis of secondary vocational school teacher’s readiness to pedagogical work. The factor structure consists of many factors, the main of which includes eighteen variables and presents the experts’ opinion about the leading role of individual approach in teachers’ work in order to create conditions that stimulate self-determination and self-actialization of students. The variables of the main factor correlate with the ideas of Humanistic Pedagogy and Psychology by C. Rogers and A. Maslow. The quantitative results of the experts’ assessment show that the executives of educational institutions, their deputies and experts in methods of teaching realize the importance of humanistic personal-professional views in the work of secondary vocational school teacher. This proves objectivity of the expertise and competence of the experts. Stability of the factor structure is an important evidence of homogeneity of the experts’ assessment carried out in eighty five vocational educational institutions of federal subjects of Russia, which took part in the expertise of secondary vocational school teacher’s readiness to pedagogical work.