Psychologist with a master’s degree in educational psychology. Since 2015 she has been a special education teacher at Rustavi Public School No. 18.
Maia Aslanishvili holds a master’s degree in educational psychology from the Faculty of Psychology of Tbilisi State University. She also studied at the University of Education in Freiburg, Germany, where she did a psychology internship at the local Caritas and worked as an assistant at the city clinic. In Georgia she worked as a school psychologist. Since 2015 she has been a special education teacher at Rustavi Public School No. 18.
Since 2017 she has been a special educator in CSDC’s Transit Educational Programme for homeless children. She assesses the children in the programme and works with them individually towards agreed goals, cooperating closely with the centre’s team, the psychologist, the school administration and subject teachers.
She has completed UNICEF trainings for second-chance education programmes, as well as training in managing challenging behaviour, including the ABC model of behaviour, and classroom management.