On December 4, the Supreme Court of Georgia hosted the GECALLS students from Tbilisi Public School №55. The students were accompanied by the civic Education Teacher and Law Enforcement Officer of the above mentioned school.
A Supreme Court representative acted as a guide for the guests and introduced them guests the history of the building as well as the high ranking officials that have served there. The students visited nearly all the important chambers of the Supreme Court and tried the seats of judges and other officials. The students also visit the newly opened Museum of Justice.
On November 29, GE CALLS 2013 within the framework of GE Calls project, ninth grade students of 64th public school with teacher and district police officer visited the academy of MIA. At the academy they attended the presentation “education in Academy” where they learned about the process and stages of becoming a police officer. Students also visited classrooms, gyms, shooting range and mock court room and mock customs. The school was personally greeted by the rector of an academy.
During the months of October and November 2013 participants and graduates of the English Language through Civic Education (ELCE) program across Georgia hosted Open Lesson Weeks. During this event, the average of fifteen teachers in each of the seven regions (Kakheti, Kvemo Kartli, Shida Kartli, Imereti, Guria, Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti and Ajara) of ELCE program implementation each taught an ELCE-themed lesson and opened their classrooms to observers. Guests at these lessons included not only ELCE teachers, but also other English teachers, teachers of other disciplines, school principals, parents. Over 3150 students have been taught during Open Lesson Weeks and around 750 observers attended these lessons.
On November 15-18 four-day workshop was delivered to the selected schools from four regions to train the teachers and school resource officers in the 7th grade legal socialization curriculum (Textbook Basics of Legal Culture) and techniques of team teaching.
Training was led by the leading civil education experts, psychologists and legal experts. They discussed the legislative aspects, importance of the Legal Culture curriculum at schools and conflict resolution methods. The experts also covered the impact of bullying and discrimination, cyberbullying, managing the delinquency at school environment, and about understanding the psychology of teenagers.
In order to promote and increase touristic potential of Dmanisi, civics club students jointly implemented a follow-on initiative from the Civics Integration Camp conducted in the frame of the ACETT project.
PH International Ge Calls team together with the leading civil education experts Nino Kvitaishvili and Giorgi Gakheladze have finalized the first round of GE-Calls workshops in four different regions Akhaltsikhe, Kashuri, Poti and Telavi. The workshops aimed to improve the awareness of school administration about the importance of legal culture at schools, to help them clarify priorities, define expected results and outcomes for each school, and identify the best approaches and activities to achieve desired results and outcomes.
On October 11, 2013 civic club students in Tbilisi and regions of Georgia celebrated International Day of Girls by organizing different activities, aiming at advocating girls' rights, access to education and a better life environment.
Rustavi school based civics club students’ implemented project “Active Citizenship - Democratic Values” promoting principles of democracy and active citizenship among the youth.
