WINTER/SPRING 2022
For the
LOVE of Teaching
Teachers are superheroes. Really. I think we all do appreciate our teachers, however the gravity of the job is seldom understood. As someone who, for the first time this year, has dipped my toe into the shallow end of education, it has become painfully clear just how admirable, and hard, of a job teaching is. I am in awe of all the teachers around me who bring so much energy, passion, and selflessness to their classes - at 7:00am, nonetheless! Despite mounting hardships and personal struggles, discussed in hushed tones behind closed doors of the teachers lounge, their classrooms have remained colorful havens of learning, positivity, and creativity. At IC, teachers do not just educate children on reading, writing, and arithmetic - though these are hugely important and by no means an easy task. They are responsible for modeling and instilling values of kindness, community mindedness, confidence, leadership, teamwork, creativity, patience, discipline, critical thinking, organization, and social justice. Children are the future, and teachers impact not only the lives of individual students, but the society that these students will one day lead.
Why, then? If it is such a challenging, exhausting, and undervalued job, do teachers choose to teach? Rather than tell you - we asked them.
To make it short: I teach = I breathe… Teaching for me is more than anyone can ever imagine, it is what makes me who I am. Yara Cheikho, Arabic, Preschool Ras Beirut, 5 years at IC
Éduquer les citoyens d’avenir. Chamaa, French, Elementary School Ain Aar, 28 years at IC
التعليــم مســؤولية كبيــرة جــدا ألنــه تربيــة لجيــل كامــل ســيكون مســؤوال عــن صناعــة المســتقبل وإننــي أحــاول جاهــدة أن أشــجع تالميــذي وأنمــي شــخصيتهم إلــى .جانــب تعليــم المــادة
لغة عربية- ليلى جعفر Middle School Ras Beirut, 1st year at
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