The International School of Choueifat (Branch), Dubai

Areas for Development

• •Ensure consistently high-quality teaching and learning across the school and particularly in the Ministry of Education (MoE) subjects.
• •Make full use of internal and external assessments to plan and deliver challenging lessons which meet the learning needs of all groups of students.
• •Improve the skills of all middle leaders enabling them to anticipate challenges, drive improvement, and contribute to the raising student outcomes.
• •Ensure all improvement plans are based on accurate self-evaluation and have defined measurable targets related to students’ outcomes.
• •Plan and implement a programme to raise students’ attainment in the National Agenda benchmark assessments in English, mathematics and science.
• •Ensure that teachers consistently use the information from all National Agenda benchmark assessments to inform their teaching practices.
• •Establish and implement a coherent plan to raise the achievement of Emirati students.
• •Introduce systems to collect regular information from all stakeholders to ensure wellbeing needs are quickly identified and addressed.
• •Raise teachers’ expectations so that all students use evidence from the Holy Qur’an, Hadith and Sunnah to support their answers.
• •Ensure that all students develop their reading and Tajweed rules in line with curriculum expectations.
• •Present students with more opportunities to initiate and maintain dialogue in standard Arabic.
• •Provide more opportunities for students to write for a range of purposes across a variety of topics.
• •Ensure that lesson plans provide sufficient opportunities for students to develop all four language skills.
• •Monitor the effectiveness of teaching on improving students' language skills.
• •Raise teachers’ expectations and ensure that learning activities focus on students’ linguistic skills and creative writing.
• •Make more effective use of the assessment information to identify and close gaps in students’ learning.
• •Accelerate students’ progress, especially in the elementary and middle schools, by designing learning activities which challenge and stimulate all groups of students.
• •Engage students in regular and challenging activities which promote their problem-solving skills.
• •Improve students’ scientific skills by ensuring that students understand what they are investigating and have opportunities to make predictions.
• •Improve further students’ scientific knowledge and understanding by allowing them to consolidate their methodology during plenary sessions.
• •Ensure the development of more independent learning and collaborative skills, particularly in the Arabic-medium subjects.
• •Make more use of learning technology for independent research, enquiry and innovation.
• •Expand the sharing of global cultures through more activities and exhibitions.
• •Provide more opportunities for students to make social contributions to the wider community.
• •Ensure that teachers plan lessons and teaching strategies using assessment information to meet the learning needs of all groups of students.
• •Provide more opportunities for student to improve their critical thinking skills and independence.
• •Improve the reliability of the school’s internal assessments so that the results are more closely aligned with external benchmark data.
• •Improve cross-curricular links further, especially in the MoE subjects.
• •Adapt the curriculum to better meet students’ diverse learning needs, particularly those of students of determination.
• •Ensure that, in all subjects, the curriculum more effectively supports the development of innovation and entrepreneurial skills.
• •Ensure safety checks are frequent and the supervision of students on the school’s transport is appropriately rigorous.
• •Ensure that all lessons provide academic and personal support which is well matched to the needs of all groups of students.