150 teachers share ideas at key forum

Qatar Museums (QM) held its second Teachers Council forum yesterday at the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA), as part of the organisation’s commitment to enrich people’s lives by educating them on the value of art, heritage and creativity.
Held under the patronage of H E Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, this month’s event brought together more than 150 teachers from Independent schools across Qatar, which complements last month’s event, that saw 200 teachers from international schools attend.
During the forum, which is planned to be a regular event, QM’s senior leadership spoke with teachers and invited them to share their opinions and feedback on QM’s educational programmes and resources and suggest new ideas for future programmes. The event provided teachers with a great opportunity to collaborate more closely with QM, learn more about its institutions, and discover the wide range of learning resources and professional development opportunities, including a Teacher Training programme, that are available to them through the organisation.
H E Sheikha Al Mayassa personally welcomed teachers and invited them to engage more closely with QM. Other speakers included Mansoor bin Ebrahim Al Mahmoud, Chief Executive Officer and Special Adviser to the QM Chairperson, Salem Abdulla Al Aswad, Deputy Director of Learning & Outreach at MIA and Fatima Al Rumaihi, Chief Executive Officer of the Doha Film Institute.
Participants were also given an informative tour of the galleries at MIA and were shown a demonstration of QM’s ‘hands on’ teaching practices.
H E Sheikha Al Mayassa said: “The levels of engagement for our Teachers Council events have been extremely positive, and both events have been a great success. At QM, we seek to align our array of educational offerings and learning opportunities with teachers’ interests and the school curriculum, to successfully enrich lives, broaden horizons and stimulate the creativity within the community."