Title: Connect ROTAsia
1- Connect ROTAsia
- Working towards an Asia with equal educational
opportunities for all
2ROTA Mission
- Extending Qatar Foundations mission to Asia both
within the expatriate community and across the
Asian continent - Assisting and empowering local communities
- Dissolving barriers
- Building a connected learning community
- Creating equal opportunity
- Enhancing quality of life
ROTA strives to improve Access and Quality of
educational opportunities across Asia
With efforts projected through 2015, ROTA will
further some of the Millennium Development and
Education for All goals, as defined by the United
Nations at the World Education Forum of April 2000
3Focus Asian Countries for ROTA
- Existing Projects
- Cambodia
- Indonesia
- Lebanon
- Pakistan
- Upcoming Projects
- Afghanistan
- Bangladesh
- Nepal
- Syria (focus on Iraqi refugees)
4ROTA Program Areas
ROTA
ROTAQ
ROTAsia
Volunteer Program
5Connect ROTAsiaBuilding a learning community
that dissolves barriers and creates connections
leading to a better quality of life within Asia
- Knowledge Network School Twinning
- Goals
- Sharing knowledge and expertise of schools and
universities in Qatar with other schools and
universities in Qatar, the Middle East and
throughout Asia via an online Knowledge Network
portal - Establishing physical and online links (twinning)
between schools in Qatar and developing Asian
countries
6Knowledge Network School Twinning
- Online
- Collaborative educational online projects for
students and teachers - Access to advice from online subject experts
- Cultural exchange projects
- Online discussion and communication
- General region specific resource banks
- Facilitation of guest speakers
- Student-to-student and teacher-to-teacher
mentoring - Physical
- Educational and community service trips with twin
school - Educational equipment and resource donation or
exchange - Student and/or teacher exchange and mentoring
7What are the Benefits for Participating Schools?
- Collaboration on educational projects
- Formation of long-lasting friendships via online
communication tools and face-to-face connections - Cultural exchange of information on respective
countries - Exchange of ideas and opinions with other
students teachers from other cultures - Exposure to best practice teaching methods,
resources and expertise - Lending support to education in developing
communities through - Exchange of equipment, books and other necessary
educational resources - Student and teacher exchange
- Educational and community service trips
8How to Get Started
- Talk to your administrators/ head teachers and
register your interest by contacting - Cherie Clark-Moore
- Head of Connect ROTAsia
- Email cclark_at_qf.org.qa
9What ROTA requires from Partner Schools
- Commitment to Connect ROTAsia program (signing of
MoU) - Designation of focus person within your school
for the Connect ROTAsia program - Appointment of representative to sit on Connect
ROTAsia Knowledge Network Committee - Completion of school twinning application form