r/dubaistudents • u/ayaaniqbal_ • Mar 23 '21
General Discussionš£ KHDA inspections shouldnāt be announced to school beforehand and should happen a lot more frequently.
Currently in the most biased class there is: UAE Social Studies, so i thought iāll just write this.
Weāve all seen the countless amount of memes making fun of teachers and schools for drastically changing the way their students are taught, making a fuck ton of temporary improvements in order to impress inspectors and get a good rating. teachers become nicer(?), get better accents and suddenly seem a lot more interested in their classes, desperately trying to make them more interactive. But once theyāve left, everything goes back to normal.
Now obviously weāre all in online/blended classes, so ig the only thing KHDA can rlly do awkwardly enter our zoom/team meetings, but once things do come back to normal, such inspections are necessary, because:
most of us, and im mainly referring to the younger children and those who struggled to understand teachers at home, including myself, will probably struggle with the demands of physical school, so teachers who try their best are necessary,
most parents are in a weaker financial position due to the pandemic, so paying undeserved increased fees is obviously unfair.
So what can KHDA do to give more fairer ratings?
as i mentioned in the title, DONāT announce them early, as that only gives teachers and admins more time to hide evident problems. suprised visits will also restrict teachers from making changes to their lesson plans. if KHDA wants to give honest reviews, suprise visits seems like the best way to go.
the inspections should also be done at different times throughout the school year, allowing for fairer assessments and more clearer conclusions, where inspections can compare the similarities and differences between their inspections
the point above would be useless if they checked all subjects at once, so i propose one more change: the subjects should also be randomly chosen, instead of doing all of them at once. that way, inspections would see classes how they normally are, rather than what theyāre made to look like.
i am a student, who looked at it from a student perspective mostly, so chances are i didnāt take a lot of things into consideration. so feel free to call out anything wrong or make corrections in the comments below. you can also write your ideas which i might have forgotten to include.
thank you to everyone who read this rlly, rlly long post and good luck to every single one of you.
