UAE School Leadership Programme: Internship The UAE’s Ministry of Education and the world’s leading education company, Pearson, are delivering an internationally acclaimed School Leadership Programme that will help a new cadre of education leaders implement education reform in schools across the Emirates. The programme will equip over 700 Emirati educators over a five year period with the skills needed to become effective school leaders, inspiring fellow educators and improving the learning outcomes of their students. This is a unique opportunity for private UAE schools to engage with the UAE’s public education system and help to build positive school environments where teaching and learning can flourish.
Witnessing the power of effective school leadership... The School Leadership Programme has been especially developed to ensure the programme’s participants can bring immediate and lasting change to their schools. A key way the programme achieves this is through the School Leadership Internship Programme, which provides participants with the chance to observe optimal school leadership practice in some of the Emirates’ best performing schools. Participating schools will host four to six participants one day a week for six weeks, allowing interns to see first-hand how effective school leadership can bring measureable benefits to schools and students.
The internship provides participants with opportunities to: n Make connections
between own practice and the practice observed in host schools.
n Consider the ways in
which their leadership practice might change as a result of what they have observed.
n Engage with leaders and
colleagues from other schools to discuss how schools can perform better and provide improved learning opportunities for students.
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The strongest aspect of the Programme was its ability to link practice with theory through the internship... The school visits during the internship deepened our understanding of many concepts and theories studied during the programme.
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Asma Alkhawwar, Teacher, Ajman.