DOHA: Education Above All (EAA) Foundation, through its programme Reach Out To Asia (ROTA), kicked off the International Education and Resource Network (iEARN) Qatar Programme by hosting two workshops for teachers in Qatar.
The first workshop took place on October 4, 2018, and the second on October 13, 2018, both at Qatar University, the official partner of the iEARN-Qatar Programme.
A group of 40 teachers from 13 governmental and private schools attended the iEARN teacher’ training workshop, providing the opportunity for teachers and students in Qatar to collaborate with an online network of educators and learners across 140 countries.
EAA views education as a right, and a tool for community development. iEARN addresses both: improving the quality of education, while enabling youth to take action addressing local or global issues. The main role of the iEARN-Qatar Programme is to connect schools and youth organisations worldwide via a virtual network to empower young people, encourage inter-scholastic collaboration, and debate world issues in real time, with the ultimate objective of enhancing learning and making a difference in their own communities and around the world.
The workshops are an ideal platform for teachers’ development which build on the basic principle of Project-based Learning (PBL), allowing teachers to share their best practices, in addition to providing them with opportunities to create and work on their projects using the ROTA Knowledge Network.
Furthermore, an Open House is organised as part of the iEARN programme, which gives students the chance to display their work and showcase their projects for an audience of educators, parents and seniors from various organisations. This year’s iEARN-Qatar programme will commence with the Open house event in April 2019.
