Towards the new Federal State Educational Standard for secondary general education: what should physical education be like

The purpose of the study is to substantiate the need for introducing changes to the structure and content of the federal working program at the level of secondary general education for the academic subject "Physical Education" (grades 10-11), as well as to working programs and recommended textbooks for this subject, in accordance with the requirements of the new Federal State Educational Standard for Secondary General Education (FSES SGE). Research methods: theoretical analysis of state regulatory legal documents, scientific-pedagogical works and methodological developments, surveys and questionnaires. Research results. Based on a theoretical analysis of the current Federal State Educational Standard for Secondary General Education (FSES SGE) and its draft for 2027, the current federal working program for the academic subject "Physical Education" (grades 10-11), textbooks, curricula, and scientific-pedagogical research on various aspects of the impact of digital technologies on students, as well as on the results of surveys and questionnaires of participants in the physical education process, the necessity of introducing the following changes to the structure and content of the federal working program at the level of secondary general education in physical education has been substantiated. These changes involve: using progressive ideas and theoretical principles of leading pedagogical concepts that determine the current development of the domestic education system in the context of its digital transformation when developing the program's foundation; incorporating into the content of the "Physical Improvement" section educational material dedicated to complexes of means for preventing and neutralizing the negative consequences of using digital technologies for the main systems of the human body; and conducting theoretical lessons, as well as assessment lessons to evaluate students' theoretical knowledge of physical education, in the classroom.