REGULAR STAGE OF RE-TRAINING COURSES FOR TEACHERS OF ARMENIAN LANGUAGE FINISHES IN AKHALKALAK
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Aug 30 2006
AKHALKALAK, AUGUST 30, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Implementation
of the project entitled "Assistance to Teaching Armenian Language
in Samtskhe-Javakhk Armenian Schools" of the Ministry of Education
and Science of Georgia finished in Akhalkalak. The program was
implemented with the assistance of the OSCE High Commissioner for
National Minorities Issues. According to the A-Info agency, a year
before this project, a similar project was implemented within the
framework of which education programs on the Georgian language
for non-Georgian language schools were formed, a competition was
announced, teachers were chosen, trainings were held, after what
teachers, who had already undergone the training, themselves held
trainings for all teachers of the Georgian language of non-Georgian
language schools. In words of Zoya Mkhitarian, the project expert, a
lecturer of the Armenology Department of the Tbilisi State University
and the Armenian Language Department of the Pedagogical University,
the OSCE experts also found it proper to implement similar programs
to assist teachers of the native language in Armenian schools. During
this summer, more than 20 Armenian language and literature specialists
of the region underwent twice corresponding trainings in Kobuleti,
after what about 200 teachers underwent methodical new trainings in
Akhalkalak. Within the framework of the project, the Armenian language
and literature teachers got acquainted with new standards of teaching
the school subject. In Z.Mkhitarian’s words, not only trainings but
also publication of corresponding text-books will be in the next stage
of the project. A competition for text-books and methodical handbooks
will be announced in Armenia in December. Winners of the competition
must take into account standards fixed by the Ministry of Education
and Science of Georgia, while forming books for Armenians schools
of Georgia.