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The Education College at Zayed University introduces new ideas to develop the educational performance.
Lauren Stephenson, Associate Professor at the college of Education, ZU, introduced new terms in two researches "Implementing Inquiry Learning in Grade 5: Implications for Teacher Leadership, Professional Learning and Education" and another research that was in collaboration with Professor Barbara Harold and Professor Robin Dada which Is about "Improving the teaching of reading through teacher leadership and professional learning in middle school classrooms".
Stephenson said that the first research was about how the transformative leadership practice has much to offer in the Gulf region and this research highlights its value to the ongoing growth of a socially just, inclusive and equitable society. T She added that the chapter discusses the outcomes of Zayed University’s year long Conversation on Leadership project with a focus on transformative leadership elements that could contribute to a draft conceptual framework for the development of an undergraduate student leadership education program.
Stephenson noted this chapter identifies key elements of content and skills that must be considered in an undergraduate leadership education curriculum and makes suggestions for how these could be utilized by other tertiary institutions in the Gulf region and beyond. In addition, it also reports on curricular, co-curricular and extra-curricular suggestions that emerged.
She also added, "The second research that was done in collaboration with myself and Professor Barbara Harold and Professor Robin Dada, two Zayed University professors at the College of Education. It focused on how the College of Education at Zayed University has been involved in teacher professional development and research into teaching practice in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over the past few years." Stephenson said, "Our teacher education students are introduced to a variety of ways to teach reading within the language curriculum. However, evidence from the practicum indicates that the teaching of reading is problematic in UAE schools. Not only the students but also many classroom teachers struggle with the implementation and assessment of effective reading strategies. Reasons for this appear to include teacher insecurity about the teaching of reading, structural constraints within the classroom program and lack of understanding about the nature of reading resulting in an inability to teach reading as effectively as they could."
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