Direction:Education
Position:Associate Professor
Sophia is an experienced education specialist with over 16 years of experience as a teacher, lecturer, education consultant and education projects manager. At Ilia University Sophia has taught different education courses to future school administrators and teachers at BA, MA and PHD level. Also, at various times coordinated Education Administration Program and led the Tempus Higher Education Management program that envisaged MA program set-up in Georgia and Armenia. Sophia has worked as an education consultant for different national and international organizations including: The World Bank, Civic Education Institute, GOPA consulting, Consultation and Training Center (CTC), etc. Currently she serves as Professional Development Expert for the IREX consulting team in Georgia that supports the National Teacher Professional Development Center in implementing a country-wide professional development program for STEM teachers and school principals.
Sophia worked for the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia at various positions. Most importantly, she held the position of a Director at National Center for Teacher Professional Development in 2007-2010.
Ms. Gorgodze holds MA degree in International Education Policy from Harvard Graduate School of Education and MA degree in American Studies from Tbilisi State University. She earned her Doctoral degree in Education from Ilia State University.
Scientific interests / research interests
Policy making in education. Decentralizatoin of Education System; Teacher Policies; internationalisation of Higher Education
- Featured publications
Gorgodze, Sophia. 2016. Rise and Fall of Decentralized School Governance: Decision-making Practices in Georgia. International Education Studies 9 (11)
Campbell, Anne and Gorgodze Sophia. 2016. Internationalization of Georgian higher education. HERJ Hungarian Education Research Journal. 6 (1)
Sales, Gregory, Sonja Sentocnik, Jayson Richardson and Sophia Gorgodze. 2018. Reforming Georgia Education. Recommendations for Using Classroom Assessment to Improve Student Outcomes. Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. DOI: 10.5782/2223-2621.2018.21.2.5
- Books (and Book Chapters)
Gorgodze, Sophia. 2016. “Changing Education in Action. Georgia: The Conflicted Teacher.” In Jelmer Evens and Rene Kneybar. Flip the System. Changing Education from the Ground Up. (In English).
https://www.amazon.com/Flip-System-Changing-Education-Ground/dp/1138929980
Gorgodze, Sophia, Manana Bochorishvili, Nino Chiabrishvili, Ketevan Chiabrishvili and Giorgi Gakheladze. 2013. Learn and Teach Critical and Creative Thinking. Mtsignobari Publishing. (In Georgian)
http://cdi.org.ge/uploads/pages/da-vaswavlot-kritikuli-azrovneba-51.pdf
Janashia, Simon and Gorgodze, Sophia.2013. Policy Note on Decentralization. Published in Decentralization of General Education System. Mtsignobari Publishing. 2013 (in Georgian and in English). goo.gl/K8TVFt
Gorgodze, Sophia. 2012. “Planning Professional Development”. Practical Guide for the Trainers. TPDC.
https://evergreen.tsu.ge/eg/opac/record/155047
Gorgodze, Sophia. 2011. “Safe School-International Experience”. In Safe School without Community Involvement. Ustari Publishing. (In Georgian)
http://cdi.org.ge/uploads/pages/usafrtxo-skola-39.pdf
Janashia, Natia, Natela Imedadze and Sophia Gorgodze. 2011. Theories of Development and Learning. Tbilisi: TPDC. http://elibrary.emis.ge/ge/books/read/45/
Editor, co-editor or member of advisory board for the publications:
Classroom Assessment and Differentiated Instruction. 2018. TPDC. (In Georgian and In English)
Teaching and Assessment. 2011. TPDC. (In Georgian)
Teaching Environment. 2011. TPDC. (In Georgian)
Articles on education. 2011. TPDC (In Georgian)
http://elibrary.emis.ge/ge/books/details/43
Teacher Ethnics Book: Real Cases from School Life.2009 (Author of the idea and member of Advisory Board)
http://eprints.iliauni.edu.ge/880/1/etika.pdf
- Articles in magazines
Gorgodze, Sophia. 2016. Conducting Effective Formative Assessment. Teacher Magazine.
Caucausus Network for Children. 2016. “School Safety in Georgia.” 2016. Interview. http://www.caucasuschildren.net/school-safety-in-georgia. (In English)
Gorgodze, Sophia. 2015. How Adults Learn. Teacher Magazine.
Gorgodze, Sophia. 2012. How Can we make professional development more effective. http://cdi.org.ge/?page_id=374#tabs-374-0-4
Gorgodze, Sophia. 2008. Knowledge Economy. Teacher Magazine.
- An extensive list of publications
Chanturia Rusudan, Sophia Gorgodze and Tamar Chkhaidze. 2016. Inclusive Education Practices in Georgia. Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Individuals with Disabilities in Georgia – Alternative Report. Civic Development Institute. (In Egnlish)
Gorgodze, Sophia and Giorgi Gakheladze. 2015. Recommendations for developing subject associations in Georgia. Coalition Education for All-Georgia. (In English)
Gorgodze, Sophia. 2013. Analysis of teacher Policies in Georgia. The International Institute for Education Policy, Planning and Management. (In English)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9RC0lzxlY4ZVjBvZjQ5OFdnWVU/edit
Gorgodze, Sophia and Janashia, Simon. 2012. Policy Note on Safe School. Published in the framework of the program Safe School Program Monitoring. http://cdi.org.ge/main/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/PP_safeschool_Janashia-Gorgodze1.pdf (In Georgian)
Current Courses |
Course Catalog |
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History and Sociology of Higher Education-MA; International Education Policy-MA; Teaching and Learning Strategies-PHD. Research Methods in Education-MA; |
Sophia has had extensive professional development courses and study visitis in different countries including US, Finland, Estonia, Spain, Germany, Austria, Israel, Singapore. She used to be the delegate of Georgia on General Education in the Council of Europe. Sophia has been an invited scholar at UCLA, CA in 2013; She is the winner of ESU International Public Speaking Competition held in London in 2002.