International Schools

Managing the crisis – the initial experience of introducing distance learning in our schools

With few exceptions, the world’s school systems – both public and private – were unprepared for the conditions created by COVID-19. This is a rapid look at what I have seen happening. First Take The lockdown approach adopted by most countries, designed to limit the spread of COVID-19 and to relieve pressure on medical services, …

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When Teacher A, Teacher B and Teacher C work from home

A famous and brilliant passage of writing about effective teaching is called, ‘Imagine Three Teachers’. Written in 1991 by cognitive scientists Scardamalia and Bereiter, the passage is a thought experiment that compares three classroom teachers: Teacher A, Teacher B and Teacher C. The strength of the passage is that the Teachers appear at first glance …

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Mature, diversify, and open new ground

In the last two years, the pioneering territories for international schools in the UAE and China have hit some problems. China is posing regulatory challenges from time to time, which impacts enrolment numbers and the predictability of any ramp-up. While the UAE has experienced an economic slowdown much like the rest of the world and …

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The Battle of School Bingo on Dubai’s Radio Stations or “The Year of Hope”

At the end of 2018, I predicted that 2019 would be the “Year of Agility” for school operators within Dubai, as the market would demand different approaches to HR, new recruitment strategies to attract teaching talent, and new ways to use technology as a resource to support the curriculum. I also predicted that 2019 would …

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What are your educational assets?

As I travel I like to ask school chains, what are your educational assets? If the answer is, “it’s our teachers”, I worry about all that high turnover in the international field. If the answer is “mainly, it’s our schools”, I worry about the missed opportunities. You see, I have commented before about the Copernican shift that …

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