Doha, October 06 (QNA) - Qatar Foundation will host its Teaching & Learning Forum on October 11, with educators and school leaders from around the world taking part in the event online.
Organized by the Education Development Institute (EDI) part of Qatar Foundations Pre-University Education is bringing together the local and international education community to discuss a series of issues that will be vital for both safeguarding and disrupting learning into the future.
Among the areas coming under the spotlight at the Teaching & Learning Forum 2020, which takes place on Sunday, October 11, are personalizing teaching and learning; building inclusive, accessible learning communities; fostering wellbeing and a sense of community within education; and glocalizing school curricula so that they blend global issues and local contexts. Educators will also discuss topic streams based around creatively identifying and solving problems, and the role of communication in learning.
"While COVID-19 has brought so much uncertainty to our world, it has also united people from different nations, cultures, and areas of expertise in seeking to find solutions to the challenges it has brought to us, and the field of education is no different," said President of Pre-University Education at QF Buthaina Ali Al Nuaimi, .
"Schools, educators, children, and parents around the world have shown tremendous adaptability and fortitude in responding to the incredible demands that the pandemic has placed on education. However, this merely brushes the surface of what we must collectively do to sustain education for the generations to follow, making it robust and resilient while recognizing and acting on the urgency of disrupting the way we teach and the way our children learn.
"Through our Teaching & Learning Forum 2020, Qatar Foundation aims not just to start a conversation about how we can ensure learning emerges stronger from its COVID-19 experience,
but to set in motion a collaborative search for tangible, practical, and actionable solutions that help to protect and transform one of the pillars of every society."
The forums keynote speaker will be Professor Mel Ainscow, Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Manchester, and an internationally-recognized authority on inclusion and equity in education, which he will say should be a central feature in any education system particularly in difficult times.
And the event will also include a Qatar Heads Summit, where more than 50 directors of schools from across Qatar will discuss challenges and opportunities around school management and share their views on the forums six topic streams. It will be followed by a learning event on November 29 when EDI will gather together the education community to develop practical approaches to making learning more sustainable, and learning systems less fragile.
"This years Teaching and Learning forum is being organized under very special circumstances, and its intended message is that collaboration across the education sector is crucial if we want to save teaching and learning from being disintegrated by the effects of COVID-19," Director at EDI Mehdi Benchaabane said.
"In the spirit of a true forum, participants will join a virtual conversation around what makes learning sustainable. They will have the chance to listen to speakers and accelerators presenting practical ways to address issues of personalized learning, inclusion, problem-solving, community wellbeing, glocalization of the curriculum and communication.
"The event will also celebrate PUE practitioners who have gone out of their way to make a difference in students lives."
The Teaching & Learning Forum 2020, which runs from 8:30am-3:45pm on October 11, is open to anyone connected to the education sector. (QNA)