United Arab Emirates School
Principal, Dr. Jake Madden, Set to Release Book “School Improvement in the UAE”
This latest book, “School Improvement
in the UAE” by Dr. Jake Madden, continues his school improvement research by
providing teachers and school and education system leaders with an insight into
what school improvement requires and, importantly, how to implement such a
program in a school in the UAE.
Abu
Dhabi, United Arab Emirates – April 4, 2020 - The United Arab Emirates has a bold plan, Vision
21, for its people and their future.
At the heart of this plan is a call for schools to pursue excellence in
teaching and learning to position young people for successful adulthood in a
world where technology, innovation, and creativity are the mainstream. At the
forefront is author and Executive Principal Dr. Jake Madden, whose body of work
positions school leaders to incorporate teaching improvement strategies that
embody data-driven practice. Madden’s
new book, “School Improvement in the UAE: A Practical Implementation of the
School Effectiveness Literature,” is set for release May 1, 2020. Published by
Oxford Global Press and available on Lulu.com, in true Madden style, this book
provides an easy to read an account of the reasons for change and the context
in which change must occur. This informative backdrop leads to an elaboration
of his improvement model, and the leadership approaches required.
Madden says, “The UAE is a relatively new country, forty-eight-years-old,
and education is unique in this country. Our school is growing in leaps and
bounds, and I want to let others know why. My school develops a model for learning, which focuses
on improving teacher capacity. The model has yielded great results for our
school.”
With the
education system in an uproar across the world due to the CO-VID 19 pandemic,
educators are scrambling for ways to improve learning once schools reopen.
Madden says, “My book should help shed light onto schools greatest resource --
the classroom teacher. I believe in the teacher as a researcher. My work
reveals that once a teacher understands how they impact learning, then they
become more focused on providing personalized learning for their students.”
ABOUT THE
AUTHOR
Dr. Jake Madden is the Executive Principal at Al Yasat, a private
school offering a bilingual American education in Arabic and English with a
strong emphasis on the respect and values of the local culture in Abu Dhabi. He
has enjoyed a successful teaching and principal leadership career over the last
thirty years building teacher capacity through the development of learning in
the contemporary world, the promotion of flexible learning spaces to meet the
needs of the 21st-century learner and curriculum for global mindedness.
Phone: +971564686902