English-speaking teaching program continues in Georgia

The Georgian Government is seeking English-speaking volunteers to take part in the "Teach and learn with Georgia” program.

The teaching program, initiated by the former government, recruited native English speakers to co-teach English alongside local English teachers in public schools throughout Georgia. This would help give Georgian children exposure to a native English speaker.

Georgia’s Minister of Education and Science Tamar Sanikidze said the Government was currently looking for volunteers to take part in the teaching program.

The English-speaking teachers program has not taken a break. There have been some changes to the program. In the past everyone had a possibility to take part in the program, even if their mother tongue was not English. Those points were replaced in 2013 and sit has become mandatory [for English native speakers]. Furthermore, candidate should be teacher by profession. Today, as a result the quality of the program is higher and it will continue to improve, Sanikize said.|/

The "Teach and learn with Georgia” program started in 2010.