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UAE, DUBAI/SABIS TEACHING!!
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Ya I joined it there yesterday! Anyone happen to know about the accommodation or lifestyle of teachers in Sharjah? I know its a dry city
Hi Dan, don't worry Sharjah is very close to Dubai so you can go there at the weekends. Some of the accommodation is near Ajman where you can buy cheap drink. There is different typed of accommodation but it's all grand, usually two teachers to an apartment.0 -
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This is a recent one, and this poster has five more relating to this business/ 'school'.Mermaidmoment wrote: »Sabis is not an organisation that I would recommend. Above all, it is a money making organisation that does not care about the welfare of children or staff. The directors are generally ruthless and do not care about the proper or appropriate delivery of education. I have never felt so bullied or intimidated in my life as I did when I was working with them. I had a great time living in the UAE and made friends for life- so in that regard it was a positive experience. However, if you are a qualified teacher, they are to be avoided like the plague. Their teaching methods go against everything we have been trained to do in western universities. They will undermine you and make you feel like everything that goes wrong in their outdated system is your fault. They do not acknowledge behavioural disorders and will blame the teacher for situations that are out of our control. There is no such thing as differentiation in this curriculum- so if a less able child is not achieving.. YOU will be blamed. You are not treated like a professional, you are treated like a naughty school child. Every Monday we had to endure half hour staff meetings which would slate us and tell us we were useless. They would say to our faces that we may as well go home because they could replace us within 24 hours. The behaviour in the schools is like nothing I have ever seen. Children run riot and your daily task becomes centred around crowd control, not teaching. Why do you think there are always so many vacancies for unqualified teachers? No one with experience in education would settle for the horrific standards. They get by on propaganda, luring Irish graduates over with the prospect of a tax free salary and various benefits. On the first two days of their 'training' they will fill your head with utter propaganda, making their beloved 'point system' out to be the the be all and end all of education. It's a cult like mindset, if I'm being honest.
I'm not saying my entire experience was terrible, the UAE is a wonderful country. But those 8 hours working with those people was soul destroying. If you're looking for experience and are thick skinned, by all means go for it (Especially if you are given KG grades). But if you are a qualified teacher, avoid!! You will gain nothing professionally from such an experience. Hope this helps!
It's up to you folks, and I know some may attack the messenger, but you have to ask yourself, why? Why would all these different people post disparaging comments about this organisation? How would we profit from it?
The above poster only has 6 posts, and all about this school as i presume he/she was compelled to warn others. but some may say she's a sock-puppet or whatever.
Me, I've a lot more posts, and been around for quite a while.
Again, find another job option - UNLESS, you can take all of the negatives written about, and STILL feel it's for you. In that case, you may well rise up the ranks of SABIS fairly quickly....
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