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How to Choose the Best UAE Secondary School for Your Child

 

When searching for the perfect secondary school for your child, you don’t have to look far in the UAE. The Emirates are home to top notch educational institutions competing to secure the admission of the best and brightest students they can find. For parents, the choice between schools can be difficult. Many are touting high standards and qualities. Often, the best way of choosing is to understand what the best fit is for your child. Every child is different and the best school for your child will help them grow and learn at a pace that is suited to them.

Parents often look to teachers to do more than just their job of imparting the day’s lesson for their children. Children need their teachers to be listeners, mentors, advisors, friends, and role models as well as educators. Many international schools in Sharjah provide high quality education, but it is not guaranteed they will commit themselves beyond this.  Quality schools will work just as hard at molding a student’s character as well as their mind. This is because information is abound; therefore, we need young people who possess emotional intelligence and a sense of servitude in order they wield such knowledge for the betterment of their family and society.   

New schools tend to be centered on 21st skills that encompass forward thinking, student centered strategies and adaptive learning environments.  Quality schools also employ the latest technology and are always looking for out-of-the-box ways to educate. A school that is current with innovative structures and student-centered teaching styles, values creativity and exploration.

Of course, no worldly education is complete without a focus on cultural and universally accepted moral values. The best of Western innovation, rooted in time-honored values, has to find a place in the syllabus. Moral and ethical training is just as important to the success of a child as math and science.

In the end, it is the parents that know their child best and must make the decision based on what school will meet the specific needs of their child.