Qatar- 'Leaders of Learning' event ends

5/7/2016 9:51:04 PM

(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Participants listening to an expert during the event.

DOHA: The World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) in collaboration with Education Development Institute (EDI) has concluded the second part of ‘Empowering Leaders of Learning’ a programme that promotes educational best practices in Qatar.

WISE and EDI are initiatives of Qatar Foundation (QF) and 21 leaders from QF schools were invited to participate in the conference led by Dr Simon Breakspear Founder and CEO LearnLabs in Australia.

The LearnLabs programme is based on research in effective teaching strategies behavioural design and organisational learning.

It introduces participants to key leadership strategies to drive and support change in teaching practice to achieve and incubate excellence in line with QF’s aspirations. In preparation for the session participants were given a short exercise to reflect on their actions outcomes what was learnt during the programme and a reading focused on teacher learning.

School leaders discussed and reviewed challenges they face and designed evidence-informed solutions and detailed plans to address them.

Dr Asmaa Al Fadala Director of Research WISE said the programme provides support to school leaders to improve students’ academic motivation and performance.

“We are confident that the school leaders who have committed themselves to the innovative proven techniques and professional practices of this programme will see significant improvement in their students’ academic performance.”

Dr Asmaa said WISE plans to extend the programme to include more schools including those under the Ministry of Education and Higher Education.

“The programme provides our educators with tools and proactive practices they need to support student success. Our schools and our future as a nation are dependent on their dedication and hard work.”

The programme made possible in part by ExxonMobil focused on encouraging school principals assistant principals and head teachers in Qatar to reflect WISE’s strategy to support some of the country’s most influential change-agents.

This approach to further progressing reform and innovation in local schools was discussed in the WISE Research report ‘K-12 Reform in the GCC (2015) written by Dr Asmaa.

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