USAID Basic Education Program / USAID საბაზისო განათლების პროგრამა

The USAID Basic Education Program is a six-year program funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by RTI International in partnership with the University of Georgia and seven regional universities. Through direct collaboration with the Georgian Ministry of Education and Science (MOES), the Program seeks to implement sustainable student-centered reform in primary grades. As a system-wide reform, the Program will impact all stakeholders in the primary education sector in Georgia, including primary grade students and their families, teachers and administrators, universities, local organizations, and the Ministry. The USAID Basic Education Program aims to institutionalize student-centered instruction through a far-reaching systemic reform of pre-service and in-service teacher professional development and use of research and data to inform policy and classroom practice. This goal will be achieved by accomplishing three objectives: (1) Current teachers and administrators implement student-centered curricula (2) Future teachers acquire student-centered teaching skills and future administrators acquire relevant instructional leadership skills (3) Educational policies are developed with the use of data and evidence