In September and October of this year, the Communications Commission trained 1100 teachers in teaching media literacy for the purpose of integrating media literacy into formal education. The trainings were led by the Informal Education Programme consultant at the Teachers’ Professional Development Centre, Manana Jincharadze, media literacy expert Natalia Ingorokva, media literacy trainer Khatuna Tsikhelashvili, and ComCom Media Literacy Department representative Mariam Bibilashvili, who introduced participants to the educational standard and the Media Literacy Lessons manual devised specifically for teaching media literacy. Trained teachers will be able to teach media literacy as an optional subject to 10^th, 11^th and 12^th grade pupils. For one semester, pupils will study the language of media and information, information processing, types of disinformation, as well as the techniques of detecting fake news and determining the truth using different methods. 

The Communications Commission, in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, Science and Youth and with the support of UNICEF, launched the project to integrate media literacy into formal education in 2022. Within the scope of the project, the Commission carried out research on media literacy needs, devised an educational standard, teaching module and textbook, which have been used to train around 2700 teachers across Georgia in teaching media literacy. Informational meetings on the subject of integration of media literacy into formal education were also held with 300 school principals across Georgia. 

As part of the project, media literacy was integrated into formal education in 2023. That same year, six Georgian schools started teaching media literacy as an optional subject. The number of such schools increased to 227 in 2024, with public schools in Georgian regions account for 91% of this number. 

Facilitating the integration of media literacy into formal education remains a priority for the Communications Commission. To this end, the Commission will continue to train teachers in order to ensure that the media literacy teaching process is carried out more effectively and productively.