My teacher, Mr. Solarz, was fortunate enough to travel to Dubai last week for an education conference and to meet former Top 50 Global Teacher Prize candidates for the Varkey GEMS Global Teacher Prize. He shared his unbelievable experience with us, and here are some things that I learned from our discussion:
- One very important thing is that we are much more similar than we are different. Mr.Solarz said that if we were put in a room with tons of kids our age from other countries and where told to make friends, we would see that, we may have a different religion, have different clothes, but we would feel just as welcome there as we would anywhere.
- He said that in Dubai he learned, taught, and experienced many interesting experiences.
- In Dubai the rules are very strict and the punishments are intense.