Formation of Motivation of Youth Students to Engage in Physical Culture and Sports in Institutions of General Secondary Education (Example of Implementation of the Modular System)

The article updates the issue of the involvement of children and school youth in physical education and sports through the formation of personally meaningful motivation. The importance of increasing the motivation of students to engage in physical education and sports through the differentiation of the content of physical education lessons, taking into account the interests of students, is theoretically substantiated using the example of the implementation of the modular system presented in the Model Curriculum «Physical Education. 5-9 grades». It was determined that motivation for physical education is a complex multi-vector phenomenon that requires appropriate selection of approaches to work with school youth and depends on many factors, in particular, on well-chosen and optimally balanced general and differentiated means, forms, and methods. It has been proven that content differentiation through variable modules can serve as a meaningful and positive lever for inclusion and interest of students in physical education lessons. It is substantiated that the implementation of a modular system in lessons has a number of advantages for increasing the motivation of young students to engage in physical education through the structuring and productivity of the educational process, the dynamism and transformation of the content of physical education lessons, the variability of means, methods, and teaching methods; possibilities of quick adaptation, mobility; ensuring an individual approach to learning; personalization and differentiation of the content of physical education lessons; establishment of active, dialogic, subject-subject interaction "teacher - student" when choosing teaching aids; the flexibility of designing the educational process when choosing modules that correspond to the interests of students, the goals and objectives of education.