| Everything comes from GOD alone. Everything | | | | With this indispensable role as a teacher, first, I |
| lives by His purpose, by His principles, and by His | | | | should be proud of who I am and what I do as a |
| design; and everything is for His glory. For | | | | teacher. Knowing why I am teaching will always |
| everything, absolutely everything, above and | | | | make me proud of this noblest profession. |
| below, visible and invisible, rank after rank of life- | | | | |
| everything got started in Him and finds its | | | | Secondly, I should always master the ART of |
| purpose in Him. | | | | TEACHING. Whenever I face my students, I |
| | | | | should always be 100% ready in words, in |
| So is a TEACHER, teaching with a purpose. | | | | thoughts, and in deeds. It's in thehow I share |
| | | | | and inspire the lives of my students that matters. |
| Teaching is indeed the noblest vocation here on | | | | |
| earth for a teacher is always motivated by LOVE | | | | Thirdly, teaching is learning for life. I should always |
| and PASSION; for teaching is sharing, sacrificing, | | | | advance myself as a teacherof knowledge, skills, |
| and inspiring life itself. And in order to | | | | and motivations by continuously pursuing post |
| communicate passion, one must live it. It is a life | | | | graduate studiesand by making my self positive |
| that is 100% committed to SERVICE. | | | | and available to new teaching trends, approaches |
| | | | | andstrategies the Department of Education is |
| I believe it is virtually impossible to teach and | | | | endlessly offering to teachers through trainings, |
| nurture others if I am not personally committed | | | | workshops and conferences whose ultimate goal |
| to my calling as a teacher. It is not enough for | | | | is to improve the quality of education the |
| me to teach and to transfer knowledge and skills | | | | teachers are transfering to their clientele- the |
| to my students. As a teacher, my ultimate | | | | students. |
| objective should always be to change minds and | | | | |
| move hearts because a teacher should really | | | | I also never give up. As a teacher, I am never |
| teach with passion and inspire others to let their | | | | afraid to take risks, to face the difficulties and |
| hearts and minds open to change. | | | | burdens of being a mentor. It's my passion to |
| | | | | teaching that makes me strong and stand to the |
| I strongly believe to what Haim Ginott stated | | | | tests of time and the downs of life. |
| about teaching: | | | | |
| | | | | Lastly, every activity of a teacher can be |
| "I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am | | | | transformed into an act of worship when you do |
| the decisive element inthe classroom. It's my daily | | | | it for the praise, glory and pleasure of GOD. If I |
| personal approach that creates the climate. It's | | | | am truly teaching with a purpose, I must always |
| mydaily mood that makes the weather. As a | | | | put eternal value in every task I do, in every |
| teacher, I possess tremendous powerto make a | | | | word I speak, and in every idea I think. |
| child's life miserable or joyous. i can be a tool of | | | | The wholity of my being a teacher must be a |
| torture or aninstrument of inspiration. I can | | | | mirror of GOD's LOVE and LIGHT to all- to |
| humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situationsit is | | | | mystudents, to my co-educators, and to the |
| my response that decides whether a crisis will be | | | | people of my immediate community. |
| escalated or de-escalated,and a child humanized or | | | | This is my calling, a teacher who is called by GOD |
| de-humanized." | | | | to shape STUDENTS' LIVESthrough educational |
| | | | | excellence for social transformation. |