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*Teachers must be talented, dedicated, committed, caring, conscientious, knowledgeable, well prepared, and well trained;
*Teachers should know how to teach to high standards, endeavor to help students reach their full potential, and make learning come alive for them;
*Teachers should have leadership qualities, should work everyday to motivate and educate their students;
*Teachers should have the ability to communicate effectively, to understand individual differences, and to adapt to diverse needs;
*Teachers should provide an attractive, positive, and safe learning environment where students feel empowered, challenged and nurtured;
*Teachers should strive to form responsible, morally aware and academically capable people to be outstanding contributors to the future (Let’s not forget that if too much freedom is permitted, a sense of responsibility does not develop and the child is apt to become inward, egotistic, self-centered and manipulative );
*Teachers should have a family spirit manifesting itself with openness, empathy, acceptance, self-sacrifice, kindness, interest in others, understanding, reconciliation and self-discipline;
*Teachers should try to establish different approaches and strategies to problem-solving enabling the student to reason logically, think critically, evaluate data , make judgments, and form oral and written opinions . (Inquiry-Based learning, Hands-on experimenting, solving real problems and encouraging critical thinking are becoming important in succeeding in the work world);
*Teachers should emphasize on interactive and cooperative learning in which we create an atmosphere of democracy where all opinions are heard, all perspectives are valued; where students treat each other with respect, trust , kindness and courtesy;
*Teachers should try to make students understand their own worth and value, and promote methods that increase their self-esteem, encouraging them to accept their strengths and weaknesses;
*Teachers should have high expectations for all students;
*Teachers should align the curriculum, instructional materials, their preparations and student assessment with high standards . ………
Nada AbiSamra
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