My Target, from [a to z], is to:

Study for an AUC Professional Educator

Diploma in Educational Leadership to…
Personal
a. Be academically qualified to be an efficient school principal.

b. Improve my professional rank and enhance my social status.

c. Enjoy learning academically at a prestigious university and improve my

skills concerning management and educational leadership.

d. Know about the American philosophy in education and school

management.

e. Acquire the necessary skills and knowledge that will help to make a
successful school principal.

f. Learn what I have missed through the years since the time I stopped my
academic studies.

g. Fulfill a long-awaited desire to take up post graduate studies and obtain

higher academic degrees.

Professional
h. Help to regain the lost values and principles to schools.

i. Raise the level of the teaching staff through continuous training.

j. Help to create harmony among the staff members to maximize their

efficiency and encourage them to think of new ways to solve problems.

k. Help to furnish an atmosphere where students can learn effectively and

safely.
l. Give due care to the child’s emotional, physical, psychological and social
aspects.

m. Discover the young talents and give them the due care to develop
naturally well.

n. Produce a high-quality learner who is able to learn regardless of the

conditions he might come across during his or her life journey.

o. Stress the important role school activities can play in the development of
a student’s character.

p. Think of a plan to motivate children to love reading as early as they join

school.

q. Turn the school into an attractive place where students and teachers have
fun through the learning and teaching activities.

r. Increase the students’ awareness of their environment and the dangers

threatening the world they live in.

s. Raise the children’s patriotic feelings to practically love their homeland

and respect it and deepen their sense of belonging and at the same time
be open to other peoples and cultures and see the richness in variety.

t. Stress the importance of discipline, decency and good manners which

should be one of the main objectives of education.

u. Recognize positive behavior and reward distinguished performance.

v. Create an atmosphere where teachers and learners enjoy peace, love and
cooperation.

w. Run a school that becomes a viable successful example for others to

follow and thus start the first step in education renaissance in Egypt.

x. Prepare students to cope with a challenging, fast-growing, informative,

sophisticated world and share actively in the making of modern
civilization.
 y. Develop positive habits and help to produce a responsible person who
knows well his/her duties and rights socially, politically and
professionally.

z. Help to produce a person who appreciates beauty in the broadest sense of

the word and adds a touch of beauty to whatever he/she does.

Form 2: Statement of Purpose

Name of applicant Aly Mohammed ElSabbagh

Proposed graduate program Educational Leadership

I have always been interested in languages and language

teaching. When I got my B. A. in English language from
the Faculty of Alsun, Ain Shams University, in 1980, I
took up teaching as a career. I was lucky enough because
the School where I started working furnished the
atmosphere I had been dreaming of. The school principal
was so understanding and appreciative. The colleagues I
worked with were no less. The success I achieved as a
young teacher went beyond my expectations. I was soon
given significant tasks and every day I discovered that I
could do something that distinguished my overall
performance. On that very first year of my work
experience, I wrote and directed a play which was
televised on Channel II of the Egyptian TV, as part of the
school activities. It was considered a remarkable
achievement and was deemed for a time, a source of pride
for my family which motivated me to work still more
enthusiastically and continue my policy of self
improvement. Furthermore, the students I was teaching
were more than idealistic. They did inspire me and they
did teach me!!!

It may sound a bit strange to say that I have been actually

teaching for thirty years now! In fact, the school where I
work has given me a multitude of responsibilities to do at
the same time. In addition to being a teacher, I am a
senior master and a coordinator at a time and a vice
principal and a principal at other times! I am always given
the task of writing an operetta for the school party and
possibly help in directing and staging a play for the same
purpose. This varied experience has given flavor to my
work and has definitely enriched and influenced my life
style.

The problem in most schools in Egypt is mainly

administrative so much so that parents nowadays evaluate
a school by the efficiency of its managing staff. I share
them their views because even if you have a wonderful
building fully equipped, and an excellent teaching staff, it
will not help much if they lack a convenient atmosphere
that can nurture their talents and feed their energy.
Unfortunately, so many Egyptian schools lack aim,
independence, courage, synergy, clear vision, proper
assessment systems, coordination and flexibility, let alone
academically qualified educational leadership. This
accounts for the noticeable deterioration in students’
levels in all stages of education.

After accumulating such a wide range of experience, I

have lately thought of putting it all in action and do
something more authentic and professional. Believing that
I should not just rely on my experience, no matter how
varied and long it is. I believe I should be academically
qualified and professionally recognized. The Educational
Leadership Professional Educator Diploma will do the
job! I have had a brief idea about the program courses and
I think it will make a difference. I have a feeling that I
will have a new start when the AUC program starts. It is
generally known that leadership has become a science as
well as an art that cannot be acquired just through years of
experience. I know well that academic study is a must to
understand one’s job and see things in their right
proportions. I strongly believe in team work and
coordination conducted by aware and academically
qualified leaders to maximize the students’ output which
is the ultimate target of the whole educational process.
Besides, I think continuous improvement based on proper
evaluation will enhance performance and ensure quality
education.