Summer Academy

Summer Academy

2024

Our mission is to challenge each child to reach his or her full intellectual, creative, and physical potential. We believe that working hard and having fun are not mutually exclusive. Students from all over the country and around the world will have the opportunity to engage in challenging academic experiences. Small group work, short lectures, writing exercises, debates, oral presentations, and laboratory work is used to push students to deepen their knowledge, improve problem-solving skills, and develop as independent, critical thinkers.

Our core faculty is composed of GZAAT teachers and our successful alumni from various prominent universities of the world. Students will learn advanced Western educational practices, spend three weeks in a multicultural environment, and use the GZAAT modern facilities such as classrooms, a library, science labs, a gym, textbooks, and other academic resources.

Academic Expectations

Students are expected to come to class on time with the required books and learning materials, which will be provided by the Summer Academy. With the special teaching style of GZAAT built around the Harkness table, students are expected to contribute regularly to classroom discussions. 

Courses

Traditional academic subjects as well as non-traditional elective courses.

Physical Education

Classes will be held Monday through Friday. Each student will have physical education five times per week. Depending upon their interest, students will choose from the following activities: football (soccer), basketball, volleyball, aerobics, gym, horse-riding, rock climbing, and dancing.

Attendance and Transportation

Students can arrange their own transportation to and from school or they may use the bus system only for 5th/6th and 7th/8th grades. The school will provide a shuttle bus service from Saburtalo in the bus area adjacent to the Central Hospital.


Cafeteria

The cafeteria will offer free lunch, with the menu changing on a daily or weekly basis.

History

The Summer Academy History

The Summer School was founded by the Academy’s two alumnae – Keti Khukhunashvili and Ana Getiashvili. They led the effort to establish and develop this new way of learning in Georgia from the School’s first session in 2008 until its restructuring in 2014.


The first Summer School session started in July, 2008. In this inaugural session, 60 paying students and 30 scholarship students (non-paying) from the ages of 10 to 16 took English and Mathematics classes over a 4-week period. The scholarship students, some of whom had had some previous English training, were recruited from Tbilisi-area orphanages. The English teachers were specially-trained English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers from the United States and the Mathematics teachers were from local Georgian schools who received teacher training in Georgia. English teachers from the Pankisi Valley in northern Georgia and Spasovka in southern Georgia served as classroom aides for these classes as part of their teacher-training program.

The teacher-trainer and mentoring program gave new and less experienced Math and English teachers from underdeveloped regions in Georgia the opportunity to participate in the development and implementation of lesson plans featuring communicative language instruction, interactive task-based classroom activities for learning mathematics, and an introduction to project-based learning. The goal was to give these visiting teachers exposure to new teaching methods and encourage them to implement communicative and interactive approaches in the instruction of Math and EFL for elementary and middle-school aged students in their regions. The philosophy behind the summer school program was to provide state-of-art English instruction for Georgian students and to give them extra training in math, both of which will assist in their future employment and educational prospects.     

The July, 2009 Summer School continued this program, but this time with USAID/World Learning support. The targeted group for this part of the program (which also included a for-pay cohort) was the IDP settlement at Tserovani, which sent 25 students from the ages of 10 to 16 and 10 teachers to the GZAAT Summer Program. The program was a great success; at the end of the program the IDP group met with Vice President Joe Biden and other officials of the US and Georgian governments, where they were able to demonstrate their new proficiency in English.

How to apply

2024 Summer Session Dates and Fees:


Duration of Summer Academy: July 1st–July 19th, 2024 (3 weeks)

Who can attend:

GZAAT Summer program is offered in Georgian Language only.

  • Students from 2nd through 12th grades. 


Classes start at 10:00 a.m. and end at 3:00 p.m. 


For the Summer Academy application form and further details, please visit the link


Summer Academy Bank Properties:

TBC Bank

The Guivy Zaldastanishvili American Academy in Tbilisi

Account Number: GE21TB0600000022467805

Payment Purpose: Summer School, Student's Name, Surname


For additional information, please contact the Summer Academy Administration

7a Leo Kvachadze street, Tbilisi 0186

Tel: (995) 32-2227889

Mob: (995) 558 170-174

Fax: (995) 32-2227441

Website: www.gzaat.ge

Email: ssiamashvili@aat.gegzhuruli@aat.ge, ktopadze@aat.ge 



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