Reform of Education
Educational Complex. Strategies
Due
to the grave economic situation Georgian State Schools are badly financed.
As a result the academic process at schools and other educational
establishment has worsened. School has lost its main function. Classes do
not meet the current requirement. Students are more dependent on private
teaching which has become a means of making ends meet for most school
teachers, and they practically have no time to do their work properly at
school.
Most school pupils live in hard-up families
where parents are either unemployed or have no time to take care of their
children earning their living in this country or abroad. Most parents have
lost a regular contact with schools.
Because of low and often frozen salaries a lot
of teachers have to leave schools in the hope of finding a better-paid job.
However there are still enthusiasts who being committed to their profession
do not quit their jobs at school.
Proceeding from all on-going problems and the
exsisting situation in schools it has become vitally important to find new
ways of helping Georgian School to survive and to restore its best
traditions. Radical reforms and not just cosmetic changes are needed. We
hope that the establishment of an Educational Complex in Kutaisi may be a
good base for this purpose.
The
complex will unite all links of educational system in one unit functioning
as a whole – nursery, primary school, high school, university. The mission
of the complex is to provide an opportunity for every student to meet their
fullest potential and to form a person who will be able to cope with all
problems he/she will face in life
-
By using the best traditions of Georgian
education
-
By using new educational programs meeting
European standards
-
By using new technology
-
By encouraging all students to develop
critical and creative thinking through the use of appropriate methods and
resources to create a literacy
-
By creating a safe, pleasant enviroment
which promotes self-esteem, positive attitude and successful experience.
-
By fostering a community orientation that
encourages a strong student-teacher-parent bond and encourages all
awareness of the enviroment and the future.
-
By recognizing that physical education, good
nutrition and intellectual development are directly linked, and that they
enhance a student’s ability to learn, concentrate, feel good about
themselves and promote a good quality of life health, family, work and
leisure. The Complex will be based on the kindergarten Gelati, elementary
school # 3, St. Nino High School and KSU English Studies Department.
The
sources of the project support are NGO: Open Society-Georgia Foundation,
Literacy for Critical Thinking, Step by step Program, Parents and Teachers
association, School Development Vocatioal Training and Job Centers, Business
Incubator, International Rescue Committee Capacity Building Program.
To transfer from one educational link to
another should be organic which means that students must be adequate for
every stage. The Educational Complex has already started its activities by
holding special training for the heads and leading specialists of each
educational link.
The main issues of the training are:
-
Georgian and European experience in
education.
-
Internal and external enviroment analysis
-
Publicity
-
Parents’ involvment
-
Working team regulations
-
Seminars in each link or the Complex
-
Selection of new participants.
The Complex is supposed to for a structure
which will work on and be responsible for the following:
-
Strengthening of the Complex economic base
-
Teacher training and the increase of
academic and economic motivation
-
Parents’ training
-
New methods focused on developing useful
practical skills promoting learning motivation and improving academic
results
-
Upbringing of a highly educated, healthy,
optimistic and patriotic generation which will contribute to the
improvement of social and economic situation in Georgia.
|