摘要:The study of economics at school age helps, regardless of the future specialty, to develop economic thinking, to master the conceptual apparatus, to acquire the elementary skills necessary for orientation and existence in the modern market world, to create the basis for further deeper study of economics in universities. New socio-economic conditions for the development of Russia require the search for other ways of formation and formation of the modern personality of a professional. The Russian state is interested in a modern competitive individual and professional specialist, possessing high professional competence, independence, creative activity, possessing high professional qualities. The education reform, which includes core and pre-profile training in general education institutions, assumes that students have a high level of general intellectual skills and habits, as well as practical, ideological, behavioural personality traits. Therefore, an important component of the transformation of Russian society into a society with a market economy is the process of formation the domestic system of economic and entrepreneurial training of students. At the same time, a change in the nature of social and economic relations in society implies the search for new ways of preparing students for life and work. Analysis of the needs of children, adolescents and young people in the field of professional self-determination indicates a growing interest in economic specialties, including those requiring entrepreneurial training.