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Study on Adult Learning and Education in Georgia

• Non-Georgian teachers’ professional devel- ensure teachers’ professional development and
opment programme, which promotes state to improve educational environment through the
language teaching and the civil integration of integration of ICT .
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ethnic minorities living in Georgia. Georgian
language training is conducted by assistant Most teacher training programmes offered at
teachers working on the programme . higher education institutions aim to qualify teach-
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ers for the general education level. Some pro-
Teach for Georgia – a programme to attract teach- grammes also qualify their graduates to teach
ers to remote regions of Georgia. The programme at vocational schools. There is as yet no pro-
involves selecting consultant teachers and send- gramme available that is specifically designed
ing them out to public schools in Georgia to fill for vocational education teachers or that has a
vacancies, especially in mountainous regions. focus on andragogical education theory. A new
Part of the programme is to provide teachers with Master’s programme entitled “Vocational Educa-
specially-designed training courses in teaching tion and Human Resource Development” is how-
skills, information and communication technolo- ever under development with support from GIZ.
gies, and general education issues . The Georgian Technical University, Batumi Shota
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Rustaveli State University and Ivane Javakhishvi-
Excellence training for STEM teachers and li Tbilisi State University were involved in the de-
school principals, a programme which aims to im- velopment, and plan to accredit the programme
prove students’ academic results in the technical soon .
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fields by providing professional development for
7th-12th grade teachers of STEM subjects and According to the 2020 ETF “Policies for Human
public-school principals . Capital Development” review, successive chang-
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es implemented by the MoES to professionalise
Training programme for teaching in inclusive VET teaching included increasing the qualifica-
classes that targets secondary and also VET tion requirements to become a teacher and intro-
teachers. The course is recommended for all spe- ducing a merit-based career structure. Teachers
cial teachers, psychologists and inclusive educa- are now required to pass exams on pedagogical
tion coordinators who are employed in schools. and subject knowledge in order to become a
The Centre has developed and conducted train- senior teacher . In this context, the National
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ing on individual approaches to teaching voca- Centre for Teachers’ Professional Development
tional students with special needs which were at- successfully trained around 900 VET teachers in
tended by 399 vocational education teachers . 2019 as part of the “Professional Development
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Programme for VET Teachers and Principals”.
The Centre carries out ICT training for teachers, Teachers from public TVET institutions attended
librarians and school principals. The goal is to training in five subject areas: teaching course for

159 TPDC website article Non-Georgian teachers’ professional development programme, April 2017
160 TPDC Teach for Georgia project website
161 TPDC Training Educators for Excellence project website
162 TPDC Programme for Facilitation of Inclusive Education website
163 TPDC Information-Communication Technologies website
164 Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia (2020), p. 8
165 Bardak, U. (2020), p. 46

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