In the article, the authors consider the reflection of trends in updating the content of General education in Kazakh school textbooks and emphasize a number of requirements for textbooks of a new format.

The educational program is included in the educational process of the updated and modern, to meet the needs of future generations of the program.The article also identifies and analyzes the main trends related to updating the content of education in the field of education and its reflection in the Kazakh educational literature.In the rapidly developing world of high technology and information, a new way of education requires students not only to master the skills of the subject area, but also to develop new approaches to solving problems and tasks of critical thinking, learning. Universal skills most often include such socio-psychological skills as leadership, creative thinking, effective time management, divergent thinking, and cognitive flexibility.