Doha: Qatar Red Crescent Society’s (QRCS) Social Development Department is implementing ADEPTS, a school training programme to create effective and productive personalities among schoolchildren, producing a generation that believes in the vision of its nation and aligns itself towards it.
During the second semester of the current academic year 2015-2016, the programme covered 12 schools in Doha, Al Shamal, Mesaieed, Dukhan and Al Jumailiyah.
Rashid bin Saad Al Mohannadi, Director of the department, said, “ADEPTS is a developmental project to achieve human development goals of Qatar National Vision 2030 by developing a future generation of creative citizens, leaders and decisionmakers.
“It comprises interactive lectures and educational workshops on different topics and issues related to the lives of youth to solve their problems, broaden their minds and instill useful attitudes and thoughts into them, building upon their experiences, tendencies and mental and age-related faculties.”
He said diverse methods of teaching are used such as discussion, experimentation, role-playing, group learning and extracurricular activities.
“This combines together educational aims, personal innovation and hands-on practice, instilling into their minds values and attributes to benefit them now and in the future.”
The programme has three dimensions: Abilities to create an innovative personality; morality to promote such ideals as prayer time observance, honesty, truthfulness, benevolence, tolerance; and management to acquire personal and practical skills such as mind mapping, teamwork, smart goal setting and executive planning.
Programme staff are trying to help trainees realise that insightful strategies are key to success, have a positive self-image, enjoy work under pressure, be proactive and open-minded, master the art of dialogue, pursue flexibility and problem-solving techniques, be aware of consciousness and the subconscious, deal with strengths and weaknesses by perceiving their own, be interpersonally intelligent and interactive by perceiving others’ schemata, understand negative and positive aspects of problems, know how to shift from negative to the positive aspects, and assimilate and copy success stories through modelling.
Influential as they are, teachers and parents are also covered by the programme to enable them to bring the young men and women up in a positive and constructive way.The Peninsula
