Teachers Certification Exams have started
Today Teachers Certification Exams have
started with the exam in Professional Skills. Head of National Examination
Center Khatia Dekanoidze and Director of National Center for Teacher
Professional Development Gia Mamulashvili accompanied one of the eldest
teachers participating in the exams Lili Kukhaleishvili to the examination
center and observed the examination process.
On July 2, 7894 teachers will take exams in Professional Skills. The number of teachers taking certification exams has increased since last year. In 2012, 40 000 teachers are registered for the examination.
One of the incentives of teachers’ motivation to pass the certification exams is increased salary. Certified teacher salary scheme is as follows: certified teachers will receive supplemental allowance in the range of 75GEL; successfully passed exams in the English language and computer will be remunerated with 200GEL; those with highest scores, identified in top 25% after having passed integrated exams will receive augmented salary up to 1000GEL. Teachers who will take lab exams will get additional 75GEL.
Timetable of Teacher Certification Exams is as follows:
- Professional Skills – July 2,3,4,5;
- Georgian Language and Literature – July 6;
- Geography, Biology, History, Chemistry and Mathematics (for teachers of grades VII-XII) – July 11;
- Exam for teachers of primary level (grades I-VI) –July 12;
- Georgian Language and Literature (grades I-VI) – July 13;
- Foreign languages (English, Russian, French and Germany) – July 18,19;
- Civic Education, Physics - July 19;
