Theoretical prerequisites for differentiated physical education of school students

The article summarizes and systematizes information about the prerequisites for developing the methodology of differentiated physical education. The issue of its justification and implementation is defined as important and relevant. Studies in this area mainly concern the criteria of differentiation of students: according to their health status, level of physical development, somatotype, level of physical fitness and biological development, type of nervous system, etc. Determining the most valid criteria for a certain developmental age period of the students and development on their basis of differentiated programming of health- enhancing classes has theoretical and practical significance in modern conditions. The generalization of scientific and methodical literature regarding the differentiation of the content of physical education classes shows that the effective solution of this issue depends on the study of the peculiarities of adaptive responses to the prescribed loads in groups of students homogeneous in terms of their morpho-functional status. Such studies of students during the development of their physical health are especially important.