Who is a role model

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Who is a role model?

• A role model is defined as
• someone worthy of imitation

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Every child needs a role model
Children, especially during adolescence their
most vulnerable and impressionable age - are in
need of role models, and take them from all areas
that are close at hand, whether mass media,
parents and family, or their teachers
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Words of Wisdom

• No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach
• young minds what they should be. Not all
• the books on all the shelves but what
• the teachers are themselves
• Rudyard Kipling

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Never take for granted
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I have come to a frightening conclusion that I
am the decisive element in the classroom. It is
my personal approach that creates the climate.
It is my daily mood that makes the weather. As
a teacher I possess tremendous power to make a
childs life joyous or miserable. I can be a
tool of torture, or an instrument of inspiration.
I can humiliate, humor, hurt or heal. In all
situations it is my response which decides
whether a crisis will be escalated or
de-escalated, a child humanized or
de-humanized Haim Ginnat
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True Role Models

• True role models are those who possess the
  qualities that we would like to have and those
  who have affected us in a way that makes us want
  to be better people

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