1st PRESS on-site staff development week in Georgia

1st PRESS on-site staff development week in Georgia

From March 11–15, 2024, the Georgian PRESS insti­tu­tions with their staff met at Ilia State Univer­sity at Tbilisi with the EU partners from Bremen, Helsinki and Klagen­furt for the first inter­na­tional staff develo­p­ment workshop. The workshop program included sessions on concepts of sustaina­bi­lity and ESD, critical scien­tific media literacy, sustaina­bi­lity evalua­tions, formal/non-formal/in­formal learning oppor­tu­ni­ties, project-based learning, or networ­king. Materials were exchanged and developed for a most suitable imple­men­ta­tion of the PRESS science teacher educa­tion curri­culum in Georgia. After three intense days of internal workshops, an ecolo­gical excur­sion to a natural resort near the monas­tery of David Gareja as a place of learning and a profes­sional develo­p­ment day with more than 60 in-service teachers rounded the program.