Russia | Most Recent Update from the Field

Progress Report
Curriculum Translated
Age 14, Part 1
Curriculum Translated, Contextualized
Age 14, Part II: lessons 1- 9
Curriculum Translated, Contextualized and Printed
Age 8, Part I and II, with Teacher’s Manuals
Age 12, Part I and II, with Teacher’s Manual

Teacher Training and Religious Education
20 teacher trainers and 45 teachers have been trained. Textbooks are being used in about 500 out of 27,000 Russian Orthodox parishes. Estimated weekly usage is between 5,000 to 10,000 students. Usually classes are held once a week and the average number of pupils per classroom is 10 to 15 persons.

The textbooks are on the official list of books recommended by the Church for Sunday school hours and public school extra-curriculum lessons of Orthodox culture. New teacher training, supported by the Ministry of Religious Education in Moscow is dependent on the completion of the Age 14 – part II student books and teacher manuals, per an agreement with Moscow.