Abstract:
Significant changes in such areas as technology, communication and science have a significant impact on the
world economy, and as a result, on the knowledge and skills that students need to master in order to be successful
in the 21st century. The article is devoted to the analysis of modern tendencies in the field of updating
the content of the school education of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the subjects «Russian language» and
«Russian literature». A great deal of organizational and methodological work has already been done, in particular,
model curricula for subjects, long-term plans, draft textbooks with updated content and guidelines for
them, guidelines for criteria assessment, etc. were developed. Among the main significant changes in the
study of subjects of the basic secondary school, the author points out approaches to learning (value-oriented,
activity-oriented, personality-oriented and communicative), learning goals in the form of expected result, development
of functional literacy of students, problem setting of the topic in long-term plans, spiral the principle
in the construction of topics in the curriculum, the planning of expected results, the differentiation of
training, the introduction of a system of criteria assessment. Updating the content of secondary education will
reveal the contribution of the subject to the education of the student as a subject and his teaching, and interpersonal
communication. The curriculum is aimed at implementing the principle of unity of upbringing and
learning, based on the interconnection and interdependence of educational values and outcomes «on the way
out» from the school with a system of learning objectives for subjects.
