Ras Al Khaimah: Hessa Saif
Alia Al-Sharhan, who started teaching at the age of 18 and is still working in the educational field, confirmed that her passion for educational work, which she started in the mid-eighties of the last century, gives her the motivation to continue her education.
And about the beginning of her educational and practical career, she said: I graduated from high school in 1985 from Al-Sabahiya School, in the scientific department, and studied an educational qualification diploma, specializing in a class school in 1986, and I also studied at the UAE University a Bachelor of Education specializing in preparing teachers of Islamic education, and was appointed in the first I got a job at Al-Zayt Primary School for Girls in 1987, and then I moved to Al-Zayt School for Boys, from which I moved as an assistant principal at Zubaida School, and then as an assistant principal at Zaid bin Haritha School. After 17 years of service in the educational field in public schools, I retired to devote myself to full time. For my family and my five children, and two years later I worked as a private school principal until now.
She added: I worked at the age of 18, and before that I was studying Islamic education at the Qur’an Center, and I studied mathematics voluntarily in Al-Freej, and I was busy with my family with my young children, and then I retired, and two years later I worked as a principal in a private school, and I am still at the head of my educational work, I am passionate about it. I would like to continue this bid.
She said: “Service in education gave me self-confidence, boldness and the application of strategic goals, and it became more social and a starting point for life. Recently, I wrote a book entitled “Al-Shanouna”, which is about small stories and situations in life, and teachers for me as one family and the intimacy between us is beautiful, and if time returns to me, I will choose the field The same, and every educational work has its taste, whether teaching or educational administration.
My most important advice to educational administrators is to deal with any challenge, no matter how simple, and try to solve it first, and not let it grow and worsen, and benefit from experiences and community partnership, because relationships are very important with others.
She pointed out the importance of the student completing homework at school, so that the mother would be devoted and concerned with education only, and the importance of teaching the Qur’an in an integrated manner in schools, teaching girls cooking, and teaching boys technical, professional and practical skills, and that we care about values as an actual application in life.
She added that she balanced between her family of five children and her work in the educational field, by organizing time and focusing on accustoming the children to rely on themselves, and that two of her children won the Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Distinguished Academic Performance, and four graduated as engineers, and her last daughter She is still studying at the UAE University, majoring in programming.
