Foreign and Georgian Teachers Participate in Vintage
01.10.2011

 

The President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, and Minister Dimitri Shashkini, together with the participants of the programs “Teach and Learn with Georgia“ and “Georgian Language for Future Success,” visited Kakheti and took part in vintage. The President, Minister and the teachers, picked grapes at the vineyard of the professional college “Aisi” and participated in wine making.

 

In the frame of the event, Pres. Saakashvili spoke to the new participates on these educational programs.

Selected teachers of the “Georgian Language for Future Success” have already commenced their activities. In particular, they have started to teach Georgian language to the students of non-Georgian schools in the Kvemo Kartli, Samtskhe-Javakheti, and Kakheti regions. While conducting Georgian language lessons, the program participants co-teach with local teachers of the Georgian language and assist the teachers of other subjects to deliver classes bilingually.

Apart from teaching English to Georgian schoolchildren, the volunteer teachers of the program “Teach and Learn with Georgia” are actively involved in the social and cultural life of Georgia. They learn about customs and traditions of the country and take part in different events.