Georgia | English Language through Civic Education | 15 Sep 2012

In September 2012, PH International Georgia launched Cycle 2 of English Language through Civic Education (ELCE) program, which is funded by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and is implemented by PH International in close cooperation with the Georgetown University Center for Intercultural Education and Development (CIED), English Teachers’ Association of Georgia (ETAG) and Georgian Ministry of Education and Science.

Prior to launching the new cycle of the program, introduction meetings were held with the participating school principals and teachers in all the regions of program implementation During the meetings PH team delivered brief presentations on the ELCE program and introduced the English Language Teacher Trainers to their future trainees. On September 22 ELCE Program held its first training workshop for Cycle 2 in all the regions of program implementation.

During the previous cycle, ELCE program directly trained 83 teachers from 31 schools in five regions of Georgia: Kakheti, Shida Kartli, Imereti, Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti and Adjara. In the second cycle, ELCE will expand its activities into two more regions of Guria and Kvemo Kartli and will train about 150 English Language teachers from over 60 public schools in Georgia. Over the lifetime of the project, ECLE expects to cover around 150 schools and directly train about 375 throughout the country.