UAE National Agenda and UAE Vision 2021

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UAE National Agenda and UAE Vision 2021

• Meeting the challenge and realising the vision

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The UAE National Agenda

• In 2014, H.H. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al
  Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the
  UAE and Ruler of Dubai, launched the UAE National
  Agenda as an extension to achieve the UAE Vision
  2021.
• Education is a particularly important focus of
  the UAE National Agenda as it includes eight key
  objectives that will pave the way towards the
  next phase of educational development in the UAE
• These objectives should lead the UAE to become a
  leading provider of world-class education.

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The UAE National Agenda

• PISA to be among the 20 highest performing
  countries
• (The Programme for International Student
  Assessment)
• TIMSS to be among the 15 highest performing
  countries
• (Trends in International Mathematics and Science
  Study)
• High quality teachers to ensure that 100 of
  schools have high quality teachers
• Highly effective school leadership to ensure
  that 100 of public schools have highly effective
  school leadership

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The UAE National Agenda Education Targets

• High skills in Arabic language to ensure that
  90 of Year 10 Students develop high skills in
  Arabic language in the UAE NAP (National
  Assessment Programme) assessment
• Completion of high school education to ensure
  that 90 of Emirati students complete their high
  school education
• Attending pre-primary to ensure that 95 of
  children in the UAE attend pre-primary education
• University foundation programme to ensure that
  no students need to join the university
  foundation programme

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The UAE Vision Education Targets

• Inclusion the UAE to become an inclusive,
  barrier free, rights based society that promotes,
  protects and ensures the success of all groups of
  students
• Innovation the UAE Vision 2021 sets out the
  National Agenda for the UAE to be among the most
  innovative nations of the world

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What steps has DIA taken to meet the UAE
National Agenda targets and the UAE Vision 2021?
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PISA how did we do in 2012?
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PISA how did we do in 2012?
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TIMSS how did we do in 2011?
Compared to Year 5 Mathematics Year 5 Science Year 9 Mathematics Year 9 Science
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PISA TIMSS Targets
Year 5
Year 9
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PISA TIMSS Meeting targets

• Curriculum
• Modified to meet the content and skill
  requirements of TIMSS and PISA in mathematics
  science
• Revised our Learning Ladders to develop
  threshold concepts for key learning aims
• Mapped science outcomes throughout the primary to
  ensure coverage
• Daily mental maths activities to develop skills
• Real-life problem solving encouraged through the
  KG and PYP curricula
• Reviewed PYP Programme of Inquiry (POI) to ensure
  better balance in all four strands of science in
  each grade level
• Guided reading programme introduced in primary
  and modified set-texts in secondary

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PISA TIMSS Meeting targets

• Learning, Teaching Assessment
• Personalised learning approach to ensure all
  students are challenged
• Use of Blooms-style questioning to promote
  critical thinking
• Introduced regular formative stop and check
  assessments to more accurately determine student
  starting points
• Mathematics subject leaders model lessons and
  deliver whole school PD
• Science subject leader in Phase 2 models lessons
  and drives curriculum development
• Introduced PTE, PTM PTS Standardised
  Assessments and embedded IBT
• CAT4 for all students in Phases 2-4 to identify
  SEN GT students for personalised learning, and
  drive target-setting
• TIMSS-styled assessments to ensure students are
  familiar with the questions on a TIMSS test

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PISA TIMSS Meeting targets

• Leadership Management
• Forensic data analysis to identify gaps, trends
  and areas for intervention and improvement
• Re-structured MYP streaming in maths to more
  closely match student needs
• Greater technology integration especially using
  BYOD in secondary and iPads in Primary
• Introduction of e-reading scheme in primary
• Regular learning walks to ensure teaching and
  learning is always good or better
• New science laboratory introduced in Primary, to
  boost practical inquiry skills
• Assistant Teachers introduced in Secondary Maths
  and English

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Improving the quality of Arabic education and
awareness

• Revised Arabic A and Arabic B curricula to match
  Ministry requirements and the Modern Foreign
  Language (MFL) framework
• Revised Arabic Learning Ladders
• Greater variety of learning strategies employed
  by a more highly qualified and skilled group of
  teachers
• Increased daily focus upon all four language
  skills in every lesson
• Arabic ASA and peer support groups
• Regular Arabic days
• Consistent success in group-wide competitions
• UAE Social Studies mapped and introduced in
  secondary school humanities

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University Success

• All DIA graduates admitted to university for the
  7th consecutive year
• 90 first-choice entrance in 2015
• 2015 graduate students admitted to the University
  of Cambridge, London School of Economics (LSE),
  Imperial College, and many other prestigious
  university destinations across Europe, North
  America, Australia and the Middle East

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Inclusion

• Consistently Outstanding rating for Special
  Educational Needs provision
• Appointment of primary and secondary SEN
  co-ordinators
• Increased number of teaching assistants and
  assistant teachers to support SEN students in
  lessons
• Greater use of student tracking data by teachers
  to match learning to the needs of students
• Use of CAT4 to improve identification of students
  with additional learning needs, including Gifted
  and Talented
• Enhanced identification procedures in KG

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Innovation

• Alternative learning spaces and environments
• BYOD embedded in Secondary
• E-learning and 1-to-1 embedded in upper primary
• Critical thinking and problem-solving intrinsic
  to learning in all phases through higher order
  questioning and metacognitive approaches