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A Palestinian woman won an American award.. Rana Ziadeh, the Gazan teacher who inspired the world
The Palestinian teacher, Rana Ziadeh, crowned her 16-year career in education by being chosen by the International Women's Foundation in the United States of America, among 60 inspiring women in the world.

But the ambition of the forty-year-old teacher has no limits, and she told Al-Jazeera Net, "I feel proud of being chosen alongside women leaders and inspirations in various fields, and I will continue to work so that the Palestinian girl has a pioneering and pioneering role."

During her class at the "Al-Zahraa Secondary School for Girls" east of Gaza, Al-Jazeera Net attended part of it. Rana Ziyadah appeared to interact with her students, and strive to simplify the arithmetic rules. A smile was drawn on her face while she was keen to distribute her looks throughout the class and show interest in each student.

Ziada says, "Mathematics is not the language of rigid numbers, it is the mother of sciences, and whoever masters mathematics excels in all other sciences, but this requires a teacher who enjoys a strong human relationship with his students, and earns their trust, before his teaching abilities."

The beginning of the story
Rana inherited the love of the teaching profession from her father, who worked as a teacher for many years in Algeria, where Rana was born, before the family returned to Gaza in the mid-nineties of the last century.

Rana saw the love and respect the students showed for her father, and that was her motive to follow in his footsteps, so she majored in mathematics and joined the teaching field.

Rana did not want to be a traditional teacher, and from her early beginnings in education, she was keen on excellence, by devising creative methods to simplify arithmetic rules, and instilling a love of mathematics in the hearts of her students.

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In addition to her creativity in her educational career, Rana wanted to develop herself by obtaining a master's degree in curricula and methods of teaching mathematics, and during this long career she won many awards.

"Awards are not a goal, but they encourage continued success and make every effort to serve society," she says.

In 2015, Rana won the Palestine Prize for Creativity and Educational Research, and won the first place in the Palestine Inspiration Competition. In 2017, she won the title of the first teacher in Palestine, in addition to her victory in the same year in the “My Initiative” competition launched by the Ministry of Education in Gaza.


She was also chosen last year among the 50 best teachers around the world by the Varkey Foundation in Britain, a partner of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in addition to winning the same year the International Cooperation Foundation award at the level of Palestine.

Inspirational story
Rana feels a lot of pride and satisfaction with what she has presented during her career in education, and she sees these awards as an appreciation for her, and as an encouragement to other teachers to make every effort to improve education and the level of the Palestinian student.

"My selection as an inspiring Palestinian woman, along with two heads of state, an astronaut, and a member of the United Nations Women's Organization, is not only an honor for me, but a certificate of appreciation for Palestinian teachers, who work amid difficult and harsh conditions due to the occupation and the blockade," she said.

Regarding the way she was chosen from among the inspirations around the world, Rana explained that the selection is not made by submission or nomination; But by following up on business and activities for a long time.

Rana did not stop communicating with her students during the past months, since the outbreak of the Corona pandemic, and the disruption of schools and the educational process, and she devised creative ways in order to ensure that students do not completely interrupt education.

Rana's giving was not limited to her students only, and she initiated the launch of a project to provide 50 children from poor families who do not have means of communication and the Internet, with working papers that she delivered to them at home through student volunteers who followed up with her. In order to maintain their continuation of education during the Corona crisis.

Rana believes that her experience during the Corona crisis, and the interest of international institutions, most notably the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees "UNRWA" (UNRWA) in its initiatives, prompted the International Women's Foundation to follow it silently, and were the most prominent reasons for choosing it among the inspiring women around the world.

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Achievements and successes
Rana's self-initiatives during the Corona pandemic crisis were a continuation of a long path of creativity, and she believes that this pandemic is not the worst thing that the Palestinian people have gone through, who have been suffering for decades under occupation.

Rana, whose house was bombed and destroyed during the first Israeli war on Gaza in 2008, said, "Difficult conditions should not be an obstacle to the path of education and creativity, and the Palestinian people are among the peoples of the world who believe in the importance of education the most, and who need it the most, and this explains the distinction of the Palestinian student." Everywhere".

Rana, who is married and has 4 children, says that she hopes that her children will find a return for her efforts, and that they will find someone who cares for them in their educational path.

Rana devotes her life to raising the level of education, especially teaching mathematics. She has succeeded in creating a qualitative teaching method based on cognitive journeys for high school students. virtual study" in distance e-learning, and tests the extent to which they benefit from questions and tests.

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