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Teach Middle East Magazine ®
TONI SORENSON
EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
Welcome to 2019! It is very easy at the
start of a new year to look back at all
the things that you did not accomplish
the previous year. The new year may
remind you of unaccomplished goals
but it also presents the amazing
opportunity to start again. This
year you should let yourself off the
hook and embrace all the potential
and possibilities that this new year
holds. We here at Teach Middle East
Magazine are choosing to celebrate
the things that went well in 2018 and
you should too.
We want to start the new year by
expressing gratitude to our readership.
We believe that we have the most
amazing readers in the world. Even
educators who have moved on from
the region still read the magazine
and send us their feedback from time
to time. We are also grateful to our
writers, who so willingly share their
knowledge and expertise with our
community. In 2019 our goal is to reach
out more to our readers, to continue
to highlight the good practice taking
place in the region’s schools and to
provide a platform where educators
feel celebrated and appreciated.
We will also be making sure we
provide great Continuing Professional
Development (CPD) opportunities all
throughout the year.
The region’s list of amazing education
events continues to grow and 2019
promises to be exceptional. We are
looking forward to GESS Dubai 2019,
The Middle East Maths Teachers
Conference 2019 , The Finnish
Education Expo Middle East, BETT
Middle East, The Middle East School
Leadership Conference, just to name
a few. There will be many more events
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taking place all across the region and
we have dedicated an entire section
of our website to keeping you up
to date on these events. Head over
to
www.teachmiddleeastmag.com/
events for more details. Registration
for The Middle East Maths Teachers
Conference 2019 is now open, visit
www.middleeastmaths.com to register
and take advantage of the early-bird
special which ends on January 31, 2019.
Being able to visit and observe the
good practice taking place in other
schools is a very valuable thing for
educators to do. However, it is not
always possible for educators to do
this, given the constraints of their
timetables and the very busy nature
of their jobs. The Featured School
section of the magazine is designed
to help give our readers a window
into the good practice taking place
in other schools. In this issue we take
you into Repton School Abu Dhabi.
We also bring you several articles and
features to get you back on track as
you start the new term and the new
year. Do your students know how to
identify “fake news”? Are you aware of
the power of the use of dialogue in the
classroom? These topics and more are
covered in this jam packed issue.
As you start the new term we invite
you to share your journey with us.
Interact with us on our various
social media channels and join the
conversation already taking place with
like-minded educators. Follow us on
twitter @teachmiddleeast, Facebook
@TeachMiddleEastMagazine and on
Instagram @Teachmiddleeast.
Have a wonderful year!
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