AHS-Mission, Purpose and Value
Our Mission and Purpose
American High School is a private school in Tbilisi, Georgia designed to develop vibrant individuals and well-rounded members of society. Our curricula, classroom instruction, and institutional philosophy are modeled after the best aspects of the American education system. With English as the primary language of instruction, our institution provides a challenging academic environment that promotes individual thinking, collaborative work, and academic integrity while preparing pupils for the rigors of higher education.
Our Aims
We try to provide our students with both academic knowledge and skills that are necessary in the modern world, such as:
- Assessing information in a critical way;
- Developing independent logical thinking;
- Making decisions and choices independently.
Common Human Values
We try to bring out the best qualities in our students, including:
- Love and kindness towards others;
- The desire to participate in public life while showing sympathy, unselfishness, and honesty;
- Knowing that in order to reach goals one needs persistence and hard work;
- A thorough understanding of human rights;
- A recognition of their commitments to family, school, society and country, and respect for the law;
- A sense of pride in themselves, their families, their school, and their native country.
Educational Principles
Our main educational principles are that:
- Students will be educated by professional teachers who are responsible for the quality of their work and who assist children to realize their full potential;
- Teachers will provide children with knowledge and help them develop independent learning skills, improve their work habits, study and organizational skills, and increase their self-confidence;
- Students will be well-organized, responsible for themselves, and accountable;
- Teachers shall treat students with love and respect, take into account age-related-difficulties and problems, differences in needs and abilities, and assist in solving them.
Qualities for Which We Strive
We strive to give the best to American High School graduates so that she or he acquires:
- Deep and broad knowledge;
- Well-developed skills for self-education;
- Skills necessary to sort through and evaluate the many different sources of information available in the modern world;
- An awareness of their future goals and plans;
- Teamwork skills;
- A high level of cultural awareness;
- Fluency in foreign languages;
- Open-mindedness towards other ways of thinking and being able to understand the complexities of arguments, while effectively communicating their position.