An iEARN-Qatar Trainer is a teacher who has experience in iEARN and has completed and facilitated iEARN projects. The trainers have also attended and completed a workshop providing them with the necessary skills and knowledge allowing them to provide training to new teachers that are willing to join the iEARN-Qatar community and participate into an iEARN Project.

 
1) The iEARN-Qatar trainer role and responsibilities are:

• Introduce and train other teacher to iEARN projects allowing them to:
• Be familiar with online collaborative learning and project-based learning teaching pedagogy
• Understand what iEARN is and what iEARN projects are
• Be able to select an iEARN project to participate in
• Be competent on the two online platforms: iEARN Collaboration Center and the ROTA Knowledge Network
• Begin planning for an iEARN project
• Start their own individual online professional development portfolio
• Be able to conduct a collaborative project with students
• Be able to apply and integrate ICT into their classrooms
• Facilitate or complete at least one iEARN project per school year (please refer to the Facilitators role and responsibilities).
• Support ROTA and iEARN-Qatar in the development of iEARN in Qatar.
• Participate in and support the organization of the Open House Celebration.
• Participate in and support the organization of workshops and various events.
• Support and advice Facilitators during the projects.
• Help develop various training material.
• Liaise directly and collaborate with the ROTA iEARN-Qatar Coordinator

2) Prerequisite and requirements

To become an Official iEARN-Qatar trainer a teacher must have:

• Completed at least one iEARN project
• Facilitated at least one iEARN-Qatar project
• Completed the iEARN-Qatar Training for Trainers workshop.
• Provided at least one “Introduction to iEARN Project” workshop (this first workshop should be provided to a small group of teacher (5 to 10) and preferably with the iEARN-Qatar Coordinator).

• Provide Introduction to iEARN projects trainings and workshops
• Facilitate iEARN-Qatar projects.

• The trainer is required to facilitate or complete at least one project per school year.
• When providing “introduction to iEARN project” training or workshop:
• The “introduction to iEARN project Handbook” material is used and covered during “introduction to iEARN project” workshop or training.
• A survey for teachers attending the workshop is filled before and after the workshop and the results are provided to the iEARN-Qatar representative (ROTA). The survey will be provided by the iEARN-Qatar representative.
• The iEARN-Qatar representative (ROTA) will be informed of the Workshop at least 2 weeks before the workshop.