According to the National, there is an urgent need for qualified teachers as well as retraining of current teachers in UAE schools. There is certainly a list of valid arguments for this and supporting evidence such as a 2007 McKinsey study concluding „that all outstanding school systems share one characteristic: high-quality teachers“ (see link above for reference).
Money is in fact pouring into education reform projects in the UAE, but is reform taking place at a more fundamental level needed? Unless parents provide children with a framework at home that supports learning, respect for education and hard work, even the best efforts at school will always be limited at best. What seems sorely missing in this whole debate is the role and responsibility of the primary stakeholders in the process: parents, children and the society they live in.
A crucial component of the PPP project in the UAE is teacher training and improving the quality of teaching. Yet, where is the data to empirically demonstrate what exactly distinguishes the extraordinary from the good or the merely average teacher? It’s fairly easy to spot glaring omissions or problematic behavior by teachers in the classroom. It’s an entirely different (and perhaps controversial) matter, however, to document exceptional teacher strategies with hard data. So the question remains: “ 
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