Information technology and Russian language: Teachers-compatriots will be instructed how to apply information technology in Russian language arts teaching during St. Petersburg’s seminar

The compatriot teachers from 25 countries of Europe, CIS and Baltic states will study current technologies of teaching Russian language and literature in St. Petersburg. An annual educational program for compatriots with a purpose to support the broadening of knowledge of the Russian language among the Russian diaspora and to enhance the professional skills of specialists in Russian philology, working outside Russia, began the Pushkin House.

75 teachers of Russian language and literature from 25 foreign countries have become the participants in the project. Petersburg local professionals will inform colleagues about contemporary approaches to the practice of teaching Russian language as a native and as a foreign language, with the use of the front-line information technologies in the educational process and current pedagogical technologies in teaching Russian language and literature.

The program includes theoretical and practical training in two key areas - the Russian language and Russian literature for teachers of high school and the university level education. Trained teachers will receive a certificate of state standard of the Russian Federation and the package of educational publications on the teaching of the Russian language.

Since 2008, the Government of St. Petersburg is implementing the “Compatriots” program, in which the work is carried out in five areas: an education and the Russian language support, the youth policy, the war veterans and the residents of besieged Leningrad support, culture, information, and the scientific-methodological and organizational support. The purposes of the program are a building the ties with compatriots abroad, a strengthening the role of the Russian language, etc.