Qatar’s Trailblazers |
| Dr Asmaa E Al Fadala
education strategy for the region. This has given me the
opportunity not only to make my voice heard within
WISE and Qatar, but also on an international level.” practices and student learning outcomes, encouraging
educators to pursue an evidence-informed focus and
to apply research on effective teaching.”
Dr Al Fadala’s work is necessarily global, but also local,
which allows her to incorporate lessons from her early
career path. She says: “On a local level, my personal
favourite WISE project thus far has been working on the
Empowering Leaders of Learning (ELL) programme
with schools in Qatar. ELL is designed to support school
leaders with strategies and tools to improve teaching ELL is just one example of the impact she and WISE
are making toward education, locally and globally.
However, Dr Al Fadala says that such forward
momentum must persist: “Having been in the Qatar
education system for years, I feel it is important for us
to continually seek the gaps we need to fill in order
to make our schools among the best in the world.”
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