Alternative electronic options have been introduced to reduce the inconvenience of teachers outside school hours
Private schools prohibit telephone communication between students' parents and teachers
Online alternatives make it easier for teachers to send class schedules, homework, and class activities.
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Private schools in the northern emirates banned direct communication between students' families and teachers, with the beginning of the current academic year, and offered four electronic alternatives to communicating between them through smart applications and websites to limit the inconvenience of teachers outside school hours, and to limit complaints and observations to supervisors rather than teachers.
School administrations said that, since the beginning of the school year, they have given students’ families electronic options for communication between them and the teachers of the subjects for their children, including the “Classroom”, “Zoom” and “Teams” websites and the “ClassDojo” application, where communication is carried out between the two parties. Via the instant text messaging system.
She explained that electronic alternatives make it easier for teachers to send the class schedule, homework, class activities and videos through websites and smart applications, as they are sites and applications specialized in educational affairs, and a large number of educational materials can be downloaded in an unlimited way, which makes it easier for students to browse them. At any time, print assignments, class schedule and all activities, whether from their mobile phones, laptops or smart devices.
She added that she limited communication via the WhatsApp application between department supervisors and students' families regarding administrative affairs, to facilitate the students' families' access to decisions issued by school administrations throughout the school year, and to provide feedback directly to supervisors to search and respond to them.
School administrations indicated that direct communication via phones between teachers and students confuses teachers during and after school hours, as some call teachers at late times and on weekends to ask about technical matters, which disturbs teachers and exposes them to constant pressure, so schools have taken All the observations received from teachers and students’ families during the past years in order to find solutions to them, and therefore limited communication between them through educational smart applications, which leads to the organization of the communication process and the resolution of any observations or complaints faced by students’ families through specialists only, and the role of teachers is limited to Educational matter.
She added that she has developed a plan that will be implemented in the middle of each semester based on holding meetings and interviews between students' families and teachers in the classroom to inform them of their children's results in assessment tests, their behavior and educational level, and to listen to the students' families' observations and suggestions, noting that the aim of this meeting is Introducing students’ families to their children’s grades in all academic subjects in order to raise their level and focus on their weaknesses in any educational subjects before the start of the final semester exams.
School administrations:
“Direct communication via phones between teachers and students’ families confuses teachers during and after work.”
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