The article describes the problem of improving the educational activities of elementary professional school students on general not specialized lessons. On these lessons students are passive, because they doesn’t see reasonable to learn and can’t find common with professional activities. However this lesson has a great potential as a basis of general competence and development personality. Author defines reproductive, heuristic and creative development levels of educational activities. Majority of students are on reproductive level of educational activity, so research is particularly important. Also there are criteria for the quality of components educational activity: substance, motivation and reflexion. Identification of educational activities level based on these criteria makes implement education process.