Turning to reality the new goals set by the federal state educational standards requires using means (methods or instruments) adequate to the relevant anticipations by the teacher as well as the active assimilation and inclusion of the new educational technologies into his/her professional activities and implementation of activity-based models for arranging the teaching and learning process. The article addresses the transformation of the modern educational process and the role of digitalization in achieving the educational results in line with the modern society’s requirements.

The article describes the mechanism of state support for the implementation of state programs in the sphere of education in the territorial entities of the Russian Federation. These programs are aimed at developing of general education quality assessment procedures through the provision of subsidies from the federal budget within the framework of the Federal Target Program for the Development of Education for 2016-2020. The main procedural elements of the getting subsidy are specified. The problems encountered by the territorial entities of the Russian Federation in the implementation of activities aimed at technological support of the general education quality assessment procedures are described. The best regional practices of human resources development and effective examples of developed regional assessment tools are presented.

In the conditions of education digitalization, the educational environment changes, technologies become not only the instrument. They transform education in accordance with the requirements of the information society, infl uencing educational process organization, teaching methods and education content. The article deals with the transformation of approaches to the concept of the educational environment, its place and role in the modern educational process. The authors analyze the main approaches to the defi nition of the modern educational environment depending on the purposes of its projecting. The article considers the necessary changes in the approaches to the development of teachers’ skills in mastering eff ective strategies of professional activity in a modern educational environment saturated with digital tools.