AMMAN — The Queen Rania Teacher Academy
(QRTA) kicked off its 2022 forum on Sunday, under the theme: “Building Forward
Better: Transforming Schools of Today,” the Jordan News Agency, Petra,
reported.
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Held virtually over two days, the QRTA Forum offers
a platform for educators to explore, learn, and share experiences with a
renowned host of international educators and researchers, according to a QRTA
statement.
This year, the QRTA forum aims to tackle school
transformations at the grassroots level, covering policies, curricula, student
and teacher affairs, and classroom structures. Its primary objective is to
highlight the challenges facing today’s school systems, and come up with plans
to improve them.
The series of panel discussions, led by 42 speakers
from reputable global educational institutions across 18 countries, also aims
to equip participating teachers with the necessary tools to improve current
school systems, the statement noted.
Each panel discussion will showcase field expert
studies, success stories, and recommendations to help set new, attainable goals
for education, as well as identify new roles for those leading this
transformation.
This year, more than 27,000 participants from 85
countries registered for the event and for the pre forum workshops, including
9,000 Jordanians whom registered for the first and second day of the forum.
The meeting comprises several sessions that cover an
array of topics, such as the impact of climate change on education, fostering
psychosocial wellbeing through literacy, and the role of innovative school
leadership.
A group of facilitators have also organized
pre-forum workshops that will delve into technology, design thinking,
psychosocial wellbeing, transformational leadership, and the importance of
professional learning communities.
In his opening remarks, QRTA CEO Osama Obeidat said
that the continuous changes “noticed nowadays, especially during and after the
COVID pandemic, resulted in having a prospective vision to the educational
systems needed for the future, and how to speed up the transformation in the
various elements of the educational system especially teachers and what has to
do with helping them gain new skills and competencies to provide appropriate
response towards the demands and tasks they have to perform.”
He emphasized that the forum this year is entitled
“Building Forward Better: Transforming Schools of Today” as the need these days
is related to building for the future and not focusing our energy in going back
to how things were before the pandemic.”
Nuno Crato, Portugal’s former minister of education
and science and keynote speaker at this year’s QRTA Forum, during a session
entitled “Schools to Build the Future,” stated, that “in order to reverse the
damage the pandemic has done to education, we must pay attention to the
fundamentals, build coherent and ambitious curricula, look for clear learning
goals, provide teachers with a clear structure, structure teaching and improve
quality by supporting all students.”
Established in 2009, and in line with Her Majesty
Queen Rania’s vision, QRTA is a non-profit organization committed to supporting
and empowering educators with the skills needed to nurture and lead future
generations.
QRTA offers innovative and evidence-based professional
development programs informed by international best practices and the latest
research in the field. Since its inception, QRTA has provided professional
learning opportunities for teachers and school leaders, with an outreach of
over 100,000 professional development opportunities across its various
programs.
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