Qatar- QM launches Executive Teachers Council


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Qatar Museums (QM) has launched the Executive Teachers Council (ETC), a platform designed to integrate teachers into QM's education programme planning.
The establishment of ETC follows the success of Teachers Council initiative launched by QM last year.
Comprising a select group of teachers, the ETC will act as an advisory body to QM educators and will encourage teachers to share their expertise and knowledge with QM to enrich its education programming offered to schools.
The first ETC meetings in English and Arabic took place recently at the Doha Fire Station, hosting 37 teachers who will serve as ETC members during the academic year 2017-2018. The meetings aimed to develop seamless communication channels between the schools and QM to enable teachers to access various educational resources and identify new ways of encouraging more students to visit various QM sites and exhibitions.
QM educators and ETC members will develop programmes and learning materials that are aligned with different school curricula and make use of QM's educational resources and collections.
The first ETC meetings have already revealed abundant useful data on what course QM programmes can take in support of teachers, uncovering that majority of teachers are interested in creating new learning tools related to QM's exhibitions and programmes, and are interested in attending teachers training sessions to learn how to provide self-guided tours to their students.
Dr Jelena Trkulja, Director of Education at QMs, said: 'Qatar Museums is eager to engage with the teachers and to hear their opinions, advice and feedback on the programmes being offered in museums and galleries across Qatar. Our education teams are committed to developing tools and materials that can be used in conjunction with temporary exhibitions or permanent collections. Some of these materials are also intended to be used in classroom, supplementing the visits to the exhibitions. It is therefore crucial for us to engage with the teachers across Qatar on an ongoing basis, to review how our tools are being implemented and seek feedback on what else we can offer. We will also be organizing training sessions for each of our new exhibitions to better prepare the teachers, and thus students, to better understand and be able to discuss topics of the exhibitions.
The ETCs are set to meet four times a year and will be held in English and Arabic. To allow for dynamic, two-way communications between the teachers and QM educators, the ETCs will be supported through the QM Teachers Club and social media platforms. The Teachers Council is intended to use QM's vast educational resources for both teachers and students in support of Qatar's independent schools art curriculum to inspire the next generation of creative talent and thinkers by sharing knowledge about art, heritage and culture. Two Teachers Council events were held in November and December of last year, attracting over 400 teachers from across Qatar.

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