Teach Middle East Magazine May 2014 issue 1 vol. 1 | Page 16

Featured School

Of note is Ms Yasmine Tahhan, who
Mr Sallam lauds for her innovativeness
in creating impacting lessons for her
English classes. He added that through
collaborative efforts on the part of the
teachers in each department, they are
able to learn from each other.
When asked what was special about
Al Nasha’a Al Saleh School Mr Sallam
said without hesitation, the students.
“…Our special thing is our students and
the kind of education we are giving to
them. This is what keeps the students
here in this school. If you go to Grade
12 students, you will find that most of
them started here in KG.”

Ideas that work

The school will be going through the
inspection process in the upcoming

months. This is a commonality that
all schools in the UAE share. Also
common is the sense of foreboding
that
inspection
creates
among
some educators and administrators.
Mr Sallam deflects the negative
connotations that some associate with
inspections by outlawing the use of the
word among his staff. He assures them
that it is a learning experience that is
geared at improving specific areas
within the school.

Encourage good practice
When faced with the question on how
he encourages his teachers, Mr Sallam
shared,
“We encourage our teachers to work
towards their full potential and to
actually create something that they are

Abdulla Rashed Al Shamsi took
home the prize for first place
in Speech at the recently held
Heritage Day Competition.

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Class Time

proud of. If we are to look at Maslow’s
hierarchy, most of our employees are
at the top level of his pyramid… they
want to create something worthwhile.
There are a few who are behind but
most of them are there. I will never
say no to any teacher who wants to do
something special, have some initiative
or wants to start something new. When
it works we can then copy the good
practice across the school.”
Future plans for the students include
introducing some of the students
to alternative activities for Physical
Education such as swimming and/or
shooting. Additionally, whilst he did not
get into details, Mr Sallam stated that
there are ambitious improvement plans
in the pipeline to propel Al Nasha’a Al
Saleh forward into the 21st century.

Nashwa Hassan – Child
Protection Officer poses
with eleven year old Khalaf
Saeed Al Dhaheri, who
walked away with first
place prize for the Chess
Competition organized by
Al Nasha’a Al Saleh Private
School, which saw over 120
students from 7 different
schools participating in
the competition that was
supervised by ADEC.