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A course to qualify computer teachers in Qatar schools offered by CSE.
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On March 2019, Within the framework of community contribution and cooperation with government institutions, and with the support
of Google, the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the college of Engineering at Qatar University organized a
course for the professional development of computer teachers at the Ministry of Education and Higher Education. The course
lasted for four days (every Saturday) and was
attended by about 70 teachers from different
schools in the country. The course included the
training of teachers on the skills of computer
thinking and how to teach students through the
teaching of programming, which became an
important part of the new curriculum of the
computer where students begin to learn at the
primary stage using simple environments to
consolidate the concepts of programming up to the
preparatory and secondary stage where students
learn to analyze problems and write algorithms and
converted To computer programs.The course was
given mainly by Dr. Saleh Al-Hazbi who won the
grant from Google company eariler in May 2018. In
addition to that, Eng. Farah El-Qawasma and Eng.
Heba Dawoud teaching assistants from the CSE department helped Dr. Saleh in preparing the material of the course and delivering
the matetrial to the teachers.