Remarkable International Schools in UAE.

Amna Mohamad Rafi, as the school
celebrates its achievements and
exciting new directions.
Caruso enunciated an initial new and
bold vision for the school, as it built on
the past, developed the present and
leaps into the future.
This vision is shared, re-shaped and
enacted by the outstanding executive
team, leaders, teachers and staff of the
school. The IPSM executive team has
risen to the challenge of re-imagining
education and indeed, the challenge
posed by one of the most devastating,
disruptive pandemic events in living
memory.
Learning at Al Ittihad
The Al Ittihad model facilitates
learning that is individual, (certainly
individuated), in-group, community,
and in team. This is an important
distinction as research clearly supports
the idea that learning is constructed
and occurs best as a social activity.
Immersion in learning, in this way,
allows for greater depth of
understanding when we begin to also
craft conditions, where thinking
becomes visible. Many of us think in
isolation, in our own minds and this is
good practice.
However, real creative thinking and
problem solving truly occurs when we
‘make thinking visible’, that is, when
we articulate our thoughts and ideas
within the Executive Team and the
teachers. Ideas are shared discussed,
explored, reshaped and a better result
occurs.
In demystifying the thinking and
learning process, models are provided
to students regarding what it means to
engage with ideas, to think and to
learn. This way the school dispels the
myth that learning is simply a matter of
“ We
foster
opportunities
for our
children
to participate
in an
education
that
prepares
them for
life and
immerses
them in
their
God-given
Emirati
“ culture