On October 20, 2012, a follow-up meeting was held in Telavi with civics teachers trained within the framework of Applied Civic Education and Teacher Training Program. ACETT is implemented by PH International in Georgia and funded by USAID.
On October 23rd, Khashuri school #2 hosted an open lesson in civics with 9th grade students, led by civics teacher Jilda Gelashvili. Students discussed the topics of trafficking and safe migration.
ELCE Participant Teacher Inga Gelashvili from Rustavi Public School #4 took the ELCE topic of Democratic Institutions and expanded it to help with her school’s student, self-government elections.
On October 19, organized an enrichment session on Negotiation Skills and Strategies. The session was facilitated by Access Program English Teachers in Rustavi Ketevan Maisuradze and Thea Odisharia.
On October 3, Access Program in Ozurgeti hosted an enrichment activity devoted to human rights and civic responsibility. The session was led by Rachel Evarts, Peace Corps Volunteer based in Ozurgeti.
On September 25, Derek Miodownik, GLSP foreign expert, held a seminar Introduction to Restorative Justice at Tbilisi State University. The seminar aimed at raising awareness on crucial details of restorative justice that are unique characteristics of that particular sphere.
On September 18, 2012, GLSP hosted a team of professionals from the US in the framework of Georgia-based exchange which aimed at sharing existing practices and experiences on the juvenile justice in the US.
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.
At Batumi Public School #2, third graders and their English language teacher again, inspired by one of the ELCE program topics of volunteerism, decided to devote half a lesson to joining a class of learning-challenged children and helping them prepare special drawings and letters addressed to parents. Once the drawings and letters were ready, children volunteered to act as postmen and deliver the letters to the addressees. The action stirred a lot of emotions of compassion not only among the students and their teachers, but also among the parents of the children from both classes and other students in the school.
