The article presents Moscow's experience in organizing a competition and training of Counselors for the Principal on educational guidance and interaction with children's public associations. The subjects of educational guidance in educational organizations are outlined in the article.

The article actualizes the problem of reducing the modern student motivation level in the context of the effectiveness of the educational process. In the Federal State Educational Standard, motivation for learning activities is considered both as a condition for achieving planned results, and as one of the personal results of mastering the basic educational program by students. Educational motivation is a complex systemic dynamic process based on the leading human needs.

The educational environment is an integral part of modern life. This article discusses the development of the educational environment and its impact on academic success and personal development. The factors and features of a high-quality educational environment are identified, as well as measures to improve it are considered. The author calls for attention to the problem of the development of the educational environment and its further improvement to better lives and careers of people at any age.

The article examines the requirements of modern production for workers, analyzes the problem and potential of advancement in education. The author presents for discussion the results of a study involving representatives of employers and workers trained under the advanced training programs. In this regard, ranked lists of professionally significant personal qualities and attributes preferred and expected by respondents from among employers’ representatives and from among workers are presented.

The problem of finding universal tools for monitoring the quality of primary general education, allowing not only to evaluate the results, but also to diagnose the causes of difficulties for primary school students, attracts the attention of all participants of educational relations.

This article focuses on the question of the interconnection of such concepts as: «emotivity», «emotional intelligence» and «emotional experience», and also substantiates the necessity for students to acquire a foreign language emotional experience of communication in a foreign language lesson in the middle school as a way of developing emotional intelligence. The main purpose of the work is to offer means and methodological resources for the formation of students’ foreign language emotional communication experience.

Problem statement concerns the actual issues of forming a multicultural picture of the world of students via effective teaching and learning world languages.

The article substantiates the relevance of the problem of giftedness development for the 21st century education. The requirements put forward to a person in modern realities and the factors that define them are revealed. The problem relevanceis analysed on three levels: social-pedagogical, scientific-theoretical, practical-implementing. The tasks of giftedness development, which are outlined in the state educational policy, are presented. Modern approaches to the development of concepts and models of giftedness are studied: integrative, dynamic, humanistic.

The article actualizes the problem of preparing students for the final state certification in foreign languages. A brief analysis of the concept of «control”» is given, and the main features of the control of the formation of speaking skills in the format of USE tasks in English are revealed. The results of the experiment on the section «Speaking» for 1st year students of Volgograd State University were analyzed in order to identify typical errors.

The introduction of digitalization into the education system involves a comprehensive modernization of information technologies, with the help of which both the full administration of the educational institution and the information support of all members of the educational institution, whether they are participants and organizers of the educational process or university researchers, could be carried out.