Dear colleagues!

With the entry into force of the Law "On Education in Russian Federation"The question arose of providing students with teaching aids, including workbooks. At whose expense should they be purchased? Should they be purchased through subventions and taken into account in library fund?

Anna Usacheva, Director of the Information Policy Department of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, said that the issue of providing schoolchildren with workbooks was legally regulated: study guides provided to students free of charge during the course.

As the head of the department explained, the law "On Education in the Russian Federation" clearly indicates that students are provided free of charge for use during the period of education, textbooks and teaching aids, as well as educational and methodological materials, training and education tools. The school independently determines the list of teaching aids necessary for the study of any subject.

"If the school administration includes a specific workbook on printed basis to the list of teaching aids used in educational activities, which is approved by the order of the school principal, then, of course, this workbook should be provided at the expense of the budget", - RIA Novosti quotes the press service of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

The ministry explained that the teacher has the right recommend, for example, as part of additional study, certain benefits that may not be included in the list by the educational organization."However, if they are not purchased at the expense of federal funds, the administration of a general educational organization is not entitled to require parents to purchase them obligatory,"- the message says.

The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation considered the issue of issuing free workbooks to schoolchildren at the suggestion of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation. The reason was the appeals of the parents of schoolchildren about the violation of the rights of children to education in connection with the failure to ensure their educational organizations free workbooks. Recall that this year in Kaliningrad, the prosecutor filed a lawsuit in the interests of a schoolboy against educational institution. The parents of the first grader considered the purchase of workbooks at their own expense a violation of the child's right to public and free education. The school has proven otherwise.

Dear colleagues! Thus, at the expense of subventions, those textbooks (including workbooks) that are included in the list of textbooks used in the educational process (there must be an order for the school) are purchased and taken into account in the library fund. Please note that in the educational process, textbooks published by publishers included in the List of Publishers may be used.

Psychology and pedagogy

Why do schools need workbooks?

Workbooks will become a mandatory learning tool

Statistical data show that Russian schools have ceased to use subject workbooks in their work. The reasons for this decrease in activity are quite clear: who will purchase the training material and with what funds? But, unfortunately, the consequences of not using notebooks can be much more serious than it seems.

According to Lyudmila Verbitskaya, Chairman of the Federal Educational Establishment for General Education, this practice violates the integrity of the teaching materials and leads to many difficulties that schoolchildren and teachers themselves may encounter in the learning process.

"Exclusion of the workbook from educational process jeopardizes the achievement of the goals set in the educational program for the formation of a competent, thinking, creative, capable of solving non-standard tasks of a young person.

Ludmila Verbitskaya President of the Russian Academy of Education, Academician of the Russian Academy of Education, Chairman of the Federal UMO for General Education.

“A workbook is a textbook that has a special didactic apparatus that facilitates the student’s independent work on mastering subject. The issue of providing students with workbooks is within the competence of the general educational organization.

In educational organizations located on the territory of the Russian Federation, there has been a long-term practice of using workbooks. Workbooks as a whole with a textbook constitute an educational and methodological set and significantly improve the assimilation of educational material, as well as increase the progress of students in various subjects.

A. E. Petrov Department Director public policy in the field general education Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation

Who can purchase workbooks?

“The issue of providing students with workbooks belongs to the competence of general educational organizations” ( Clause 2 of Part 3 of Article 28 of the Federal Law "On Education in the Russian Federation")

Thus, the school has the right to purchase textbooks, teaching aids, educational and methodological materials, as well as means of education and upbringing, at the expense of federal budget allocations. The workbook as an educational publication is included in this list (GOST 7.60-2003), as well as anthologies, workshops, educational visual aids, etc.

The workbook is included in the set of manuals designed to prepare for the unified state exam. The material is built according to the thematic principle, includes all the main topics of the Russian language course, which makes it possible to start preparing for the exam from the 10th grade both in class and independently.

Should parents buy workbooks?

The school is not obliged to provide the student with workbooks along with textbooks, it only has the right to do this if there is a request and the corresponding amounts in the budget. Article 35 of the Federal Law of December 29, 2012 "On Education in the Russian Federation" contains the following words: "organizations engaged in educational activities are provided free of charge for use during the period of education textbooks and teaching aids ...". Let us draw your attention to the words "for use", and not for ownership. The textbook is returned to the library, while the workbook is intended for active filling, drawings, and assignments. It is not possible to return it to the library for later use by other students.

In our opinion, according to the article of the above law, workbooks are not subject to free delivery. However, the school has the right to purchase them at the discretion of the teachers (and parents), subject to the availability of free budgetary funds. In their absence and by mutual agreement, the purchase of this part of the educational and methodological complex, alas, often falls on the shoulders of the parents.

The workbook is part of the CMD on the history of Russia I.L. Andreeva, L.M. Lyashenko, O.V. Volobuev and others and corresponds to the Federal State Educational Standard of basic general education and the historical and cultural standard. The structure of the workbook corresponds to the structure of the textbook for grade 10 by O.V. Volobueva, S.P. Karpachev, P.N. Romanova. The notebook contains a variety of tasks: tests, essay writing, work with historical map, correlation of dates and events, etc. and adapted for training students for the OGE and the USE.

Infographics VTsIOM. What do mothers of Russian schoolchildren think about workbooks

A workbook is a textbook that has a special didactic apparatus that facilitates the student's independent work on mastering a subject. The workbook and the textbook together make up an educational and methodological set and significantly improve the assimilation of the educational material, as well as increase the progress of students in various subjects.

“Workbooks can significantly increase the effectiveness of student learning. They help the teacher to achieve the necessary results of the implementation of the GEF. Practice shows that it is advisable to carry out further development of students with the help of additional teaching aids. The use of additional teaching aids has a direct impact on improving the subject results of students. Indirect evidence of this fact can be considered the results of the international study PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) of the past - 2017 - year. Russian fourth-graders demonstrated the most high results in mastering reading among their peers from 50 countries of the world. All teaching materials for elementary school include workbooks, and this could not but have an impact on such a high final result., -

Ruslan Gagkuev, Editor-in-chief of the DROFA-VENTANA publishing house

“Workbooks improve the learning process, and most importantly, they help keep students motivated and interested. We often do not know how to support it. If the homework independent work, even work in the classroom turns into a routine for the guys, rewriting, of course, both precious time and interest are lost.

Irina Abankina Director of the Institute for the Development of Education.

1. The workbook helps to save the student's time in the lesson and when doing homework. The student independently obtains knowledge, and not just memorizes the material, and does this in a form of tasks that is convenient and understandable for him.

2. The workbook contributes to the deepening of the student's knowledge, as it contains additional material that was not included in the textbook. With the help of it, the child consolidates the knowledge gained in the lesson, learns to think critically and independently set educational goals.

3. A workbook is an indispensable assistant in preparing for exams. Many notebooks have tasks in the USE format, as well as a mandatory intermediate certifications material in a creative and unusual way. With the help of workbooks, the child can methodically prepare for exams, and the teacher can qualitatively and objectively check the level of preparation of the student.

Workbooks included in the list of teaching aids approved by the school may be provided free of charge. This was stated in the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, responding to the claims of the Prosecutor General's Office about the vagueness of the wording in the legislation regarding free textbooks.

In early April, the General Prosecutor's Office of Russia suggested that the Ministry of Education and Science decide whether workbooks should be issued free of charge or not. According to the official representative of the Prosecutor General's Office, Alexander Kurennoy, now some schools provide workbooks for free, others are denied, and parents purchase them at their own expense.

The reason for the inspection of the prosecutor's office was the appeal of parents who annually have to buy workbooks. Kurennoy recalled that in accordance with Part 1 of Art. 35 of the Law "On Education in the Russian Federation" for students mastering the basic educational programs at the expense of budgetary funds within the federal state educational standards textbooks and teaching aids, as well as educational and methodological materials, means of education and upbringing, are provided free of charge for use during the period of education. But the article of the law lacks the very concept of a teaching aid, including the definition of a workbook and referring it to a teaching aid. At the same time, the interstate standard GOST 7.60-2003 "System of standards for information, library and publishing. Editions. Main types. Terms and definitions”, introduced by the State Standard on November 25, 2003, the workbook is classified as a textbook.

However, schools believe that educational establishments should not purchase workbooks. “We centrally purchase textbooks and teaching aids, replenishing the library fund. The following year, these books pass into the hands of other students. And the workbook is designed for individual lessons, where you need to complete tasks, circle, enter, and so on. That is, it can no longer be transferred to other students. And buying new kits every year for everyone is an expensive pleasure. We are only now equipped with textbooks, and even then not 100%. Very little money is allocated for the purchase of educational literature, ”explains the director of the secondary secondary school Maria Gavryushina.

“We buy workbooks on our own. For all the time the child is in school, we are only two recent years they allocated textbooks for free, before that everything was at their own expense, ”says the mother of a tenth-grader Ekaterina Voronova.

According to the Prosecutor General's Office, at the same time, in Tatarstan, the Khabarovsk Territory, St. Petersburg, workbooks are provided to children in schools free of charge.

“Currently, the issue of providing schoolchildren with teaching aids, including workbooks, has been legally regulated. The federal law "On Education in the Russian Federation" clearly indicates that students are provided free of charge for use during the period of education, textbooks and teaching aids, as well as educational and methodological materials, training and education tools, ”the Ministry of Education and Science explained.

According to the head of the general education department of the Ministry of Education of the Chelyabinsk region Elena Tyurina, schools themselves set to include workbooks in academic plan or not: “The teacher himself decides whether a workbook is needed for the educational process or not. But I want to note that workbooks are a powerful methodological tool. Moreover, now they are produced very colorful, interesting. This was also confirmed by the ministry.

“If the school administration includes a specific printed workbook in the list of teaching aids used in educational activities, which is approved by the order of the school principal, then, of course, this workbook should be provided at the expense of the budget,” said Anna Usacheva, department director.

Some schools go to meet parents and offer to use printouts from workbooks. But according to Elena Tyurina, this practice is contrary to sanitary standards: “According to sanitary and epidemiological standards, educational materials must be printed on special paper that meets safety requirements.” AT parent committees advise to work more closely with school administrations and achieve what is prescribed by law.

All workbooks, as it turns out, should be provided for free April 12th, 2013

Because next year we have a mandatory elementary education I'm interested in everything school issues. A popular parenting forum recently debated whether schools should provide textbooks for free, and on what basis they collect money from parents everywhere for this. Well, with this, everything is, in general, clear: textbooks should be provided free of charge, which is written in the law, and officials at all levels have repeatedly stated this.

I was interested in another aspect of the question: now in primary school, except for textbooks, all kinds of "workbooks" are actively used. And for them, money is collected from parents without any twinge of conscience - they say, "these are notebooks, they are disposable." And in our wonderful law on education it is written that in general all educational and methodological materials and consumables should be free. And in the new edition (since September 1, 2013), all "means of training and education" are postulated free of charge.

Well, I decided to clarify the official position on this issue in three places:
1. Commissioner for Children's Rights in St. Petersburg (on the forum).
2. Education Committee of the Government of St. Petersburg (application by e-mail).
3. Ministry of Education (electronic application).

1. Commissioner for Children's Rights in St. Petersburg

A short version of the dialogue on the Commissioner's forum:
They: - Parents should buy workbooks.
Me: - But in the law here and here, that's why it's written differently.
They: - This year, rye and all this in the Leningrad region has risen in the second decade, and bran is 150 tons per year per head.
Me: - And yet, tell me about workbooks - after all, according to the law, they should be provided free of charge.
They: - The law is a complex thing, there are many different laws, for example, the law on birds, the law on fish, the law on trees - and different things are written in them.
Me: - And yet, in essence, the question about workbooks?
(silence)
Me: Hello?
(silence)

Full dialogue:
original on the forum

2. St. Petersburg Education Committee

At the first request, they said - yes, they say, it was the parents, it was at their own expense:

After clarifying the citation of the law, Mr. Iskrenko took a much more streamlined position - they say that we are not in business at all, the ministry approves something, schools do something there, and the administration of St. Petersburg only allocates as much money as necessary:

He wisely chose not to answer the question.

upd: as it turned out,

Dear colleagues!

With the entry into force of the Law "On Education in the Russian Federation", the question arose of providing students with teaching aids, including workbooks. At whose expense to buy them? Should they be acquired through subventions and accounted for in the library fund?

Anna Usacheva, Director of the Information Policy Department of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, said that the issue of providing schoolchildren with workbooks was legally regulated: Textbooks are provided to students free of charge for the duration of their studies.

As the head of the department explained, the law "On Education in the Russian Federation" clearly indicates that students are provided free of charge for use during the period of education, textbooks and teaching aids, as well as educational and methodological materials, training and education tools. The school independently determines the list of teaching aids necessary for the study of any subject.

"If the school administration includes a specific printed workbook in the list of teaching aids used in educational activities, which is approved by the order of the school principal, then, of course, this workbook should be provided at the expense of the budget", - RIA Novosti quotes the press service of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

The ministry explained that the teacher has the right recommend, for example, as part of additional study, certain benefits that may not be included in the list by the educational organization."However, if they are not purchased at the expense of federal funds, the administration of a general educational organization is not entitled to require parents to purchase them obligatory,"- the message says.

The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation considered the issue of issuing free workbooks to schoolchildren at the suggestion of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation. The reason was the appeals of the parents of schoolchildren about the violation of the rights of children to education in connection with the failure of educational organizations to provide them with free workbooks. Recall that this year in Kaliningrad, the prosecutor filed a lawsuit in the interests of a schoolchild against an educational institution. The parents of the first grader considered the purchase of workbooks at their own expense a violation of the child's right to public and free education. The school has proven otherwise.

Dear colleagues! Thus, at the expense of subventions, those textbooks (including workbooks) that are included in the list of textbooks used in the educational process (there must be an order for the school) are purchased and taken into account in the library fund. Please note that in the educational process, textbooks published by publishers included in the List of Publishers may be used.