Preparing UAE students to thrive in tomorrow’s world

With the rapid development the UAE is undergoing, especially in the advancement of technology, it is no surprise that sectors from hospitality to health care are constantly redefining their ways of functioning to keep up with the changing times. Education, say experts in the field, should be no different.

Given the UAE’s drive towards adopting smart learning as part of its national education agenda, the question is not so much which teaching methodology will fetch better results but rather how soon can schools in the country transform their infrastructure to use the latest technology, and how fast can teachers be trained to leave outdated learning modes behind and adopt interactive modern ways of teaching.

To learn more about the changing facets of education today, Gulf News spoke to educators and school principals to find out what teaching methods are going past their shelf life and which are increasingly becoming the way forward in schools.

Vandana Marwaha, principal of Delhi Private School in Sharjah, says education has moved away from the traditional approaches which depended solely on the transfer of knowledge from teacher to student as a lateral process.

Original article by Noor Nazzal

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