The Characteristics of the Distinguished Teacher According to the Secondary Stage Students of the Private Schools of Amman This study was aimed to identify the characteristics of the distinguished teacher According to the Secondary Stage Students of the Private Schools of Amman Definitely, this survey tried to answer the following key question: 1- What are the characteristics of the distinguished teacher according to the secondary stage students of the private schools of Amman? The population of the study consisted of all the secondary stage students of the private schools of Amman in 2008/2009. the total of which was (7471) To answer the question of the study the (GNC) questionnaire of education views was used. This questionnaire consisted of (65) items of seven fields. Data analysis was based on mean score to decide the responses of the subjects to the items of the questionnaire. The findings of the study concerning the characteristics of the distinguished teacher were : Promoting self-learning among students; Educating students on democratic basis; Stimulating Cooperatiove learning; Avoiding lecturing and spoon feeding; Mastery of the school subject; Training students in self-descipline away from outside descipline; Catering for individual learner differences The study recommended urging teachers to follow the characteristics of the distinguished teacher. .

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The study aimed to investigate the mastery degree of social skills amongst students of the Faculty of Educational Sciences UNRWA/in Jordan. The study sample consisted of (151) students; (33) males and (118) females. For the purpose of conducting the study, the researcher developed a survey questionnaire consisting of (66) items distributed among six domains as follows: (social skills, interpersonal relationships. communication skills, expression of feelings. decision making and conflict resolution). The reliability and validity of the survey items were checked. Research results showed that the total degree of the students mastery degree of social skills was generally moderate within the mean score of (255.030%) which is equal to 773%. Results also revealed that the domains ranked as follows: expression of feelings ranked first. social skills ranked second interpersonal relationships ranked third decision making ranked fourth conflict resolution ranked fifth and communication skills ranked sixth. Nineteen items of the questionnaire scored a high mastery degree. (20) items scored a moderate mastery degree while 17 items scored a low mastery degree. Findings of the study revealed that there were statistically significant differences attributed to the variables of gender in favour of the male students on the domains communication skills. decision making; the seniority of study at university variable in favour of senior students; the place of residence variable on the domains of expression of feelings between city dwellers and camp residents in favour of the latter and the accumulative average at university variable. The differences between the very good accumulative average and excellent accumulative average on the domains: social skills, communication skills, and on all the items of the survey questionnaire in favour of students having excellent accumulative grade. The study also revealed that there were statistically no significant differences attributed to the variables stream of study in the General Secondary School Education and the parents> education level. Key words: Mastery degree. Social values. UNRWA .

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The emphasis of the study is to draw a compression between franz Kafka,s metamorphosis, and Tawfiq al-Hakim's Arabic drama.masir Sursar- fate of a Cockrach,to find out how similar the two works are as to the relation with the other episode character and psyschological analysis of the major character The study has found after a deep investigation, that a greet similarity in the examined aspect is found between the two works. .

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This paper demonstrates the variation in sea waves energy near Al-azhari beach station north of Lattakia city whose position is:E 350 46.005; N 350 32.525. as determined by GPS instrument during a period of six years from 1998 to 2003. The wind speed data were taken from the meteorological directorate in Damascus By using Beauforts table and the wind speed, the wave heights and corresponding energy values can be calculated. By analyzing the data it was noticed that the maximum wave energy is available during the four months from December to March each year. Also, it was found that the wave energy in winter varied between In addition, seasonal and monthly rates of significant sea wave energy are presented. .

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The universal jurisdiction. principle perceived as it is a principle in the international criminal law, included criminal specialized owned by each state to trial the perpetrators of the international crimes. By that law each state pretended that it has jurisdiction of criminal juridical upon persons whom suspected that they perpetrators of specified crimes that known as international crimes, outside the borders of the pretended state, regardless of the basics of criminal jurisdiction which existed in the interior legislation for the states such as the nationality of the accused or his state residency For this principle number of justifications, it is integral for international criminal juridical systems for penalty the perpetrators of international crimes on the national level and it is one of the most important approaches to fight fleeing from punishment of international crimes with high risk that influence upon the whole international society The mention principle faced difficulties such as no existed of mechanisms for implemented it or national legislations that stipulated upon it, and the need of international equivalent and agreement about its existence because it is available in some legislation and nor in others. May be it is still elision or theoretical, because the shortage partially or collectively for its legislation in the countries which caused or hindered the judge to apply it. And it may be contradicted with some institutional principles such as the decided of amnesty and immunities for presidents and may be influenced by political considerations or pressers, so taking by the universal jurisdiction required fulfillment of means to carry out on the national level and the carrying out included both concepts, the wide and the narrow. so the narrow appears when applying the principle available for trial that mean the existence of the required legislations which allow to apply it and the wide one which doesn't need that and allow judgment in absentia, wherefrom new may concern to this principle by away to depended on it to apply as an international commitment without the need for national legislations requirements, because its commitment aimed to achieve international benefit basically emanated from the international law whether the customary or the contractual. So the customary law emphasized this principle and considered it as commitment upon the states to apply it to fight fleeting from punishment upon international crimes. Or from taking concern as a duty or a commitment to the legal harmony which means to work upon the agreement between the commitments that resulted by the international treaty and the interior legislations for the states are parties in it. Because entering in an international treaty resulted rights and commitments upon the states as parties allegiance and working for implementing it. So the commitment consider as universal jurisdiction as a result of harmony requirements. by stipulating the required legislations to implement that principle when considering the penal international treaties we found that the included this commitment direct or indirect manner .

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Degree of inclusion of the book of National and Civil Education for the Eighth-Grade in Jordan for the recent trends in Social and National Education. The purpose of this study at knowing how the National and Civil Education foe the Eighth-Grade of recent trends in global. democracy, environmental consumer and family education For this purpose, the researcher prepared a list of those concepts and has been confirmed by a panel of arbitrators and modified as in according to their suggestions. Also the reliability was confirmed using the method of analysis style and reanalysis by adopting Hloulisti style and the results indicated that the most common concepts in the book are the family education then it is followed by the concepts of global education and the concepts of democratic education then the concept of consumer education and the least common are the concepts of environmental education. The recommendations of the study to including the advantage of the concepts contained in this study to include them in the books of national and social education for the Basic Stage. .

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This study aimed to identify the compatibility between the educational preparation program with the standers of the total quality from (NCATE) the Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, and modified to suit the nature of Saudi society. from the views of the faculty members. The study answered the following questions: What degree of compatibility between the educational preparation program with the standers of the total quality? x Is there a statistically significant difference between sections in application of the standers of total quality? application of the standers of total quality? * What are the most important difficulties impeding the application of total quality standards? The importance results: the content does not contribute adequately necessary infrastructure to prepare the student teacher. weakness in the follow-up program for all components, twice in cooperation with the preparation sections participation and public education. Key words: teacher>s preparation program. total quality standards .

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This study aimed to identify the standards of environmental education for the curriculum of geography of the tenth grade of basic education in Jordan. Besides, it aimed to ascertain the extent to which these standards are represented in this curriculum The study made use of the descriptive analytical research approach, taking the idea as a basis of content analysis, and the sentence as a basis of the analysis of objectives, methods of teaching activities and evaluation. A set of 77 standards for environmental education that should be integrated in the geography curriculum could be reached at the first phase of the study. These standards were then used in the second phase of the study as a criterion to ascertain the extent to which these standards are represented in the geography curriculum under study. Results of data analysis showed the standards of environmental education are weakly represented of the in the domain of objectives and averagely represented in the domains of content and evaluation. On the other hand, they are highly represented in the domains of methods of teaching and activities. The results indicate that little attention is paid to principles of environmental education in three of the domains of the curriculum under study: objectives content and evaluation. The findings of the study posed a set of recommendations related to the necessity of congruence between both the objectives and the content of the curriculum and the standards of environmental education. Besides. it was recommended that evaluation techniques be congruent With both the objectives and the content of the curriculum. .

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Obstacles of Collaboration between the School and The Local Community: A case Study from Jerash Governance This study aimed to identify the obstacles that prevent the effective cooperation between the schools in Jerash directorate and the local community, whether those obstacles are related to the school or to the local community. The instrument of the study consisted of two questionnaires. The first questionnaire includes (34) items showing the obstacles that are related to the school and it was administered to the members of the community. The second questionnaire includes (13) items of obstacles related to the local community and was administered to the employees at school. The population of the study consisted of principals and teachers of schools also it consisted of the members of local community in the governorate of jerash. The sample consisted of (100) of teachers, principals as well as (100) of members in councils of education improvement in the years of 2008/2009. The findings of the study showed that the main obstacles of cooperation related to school were the school duties are a lot and heavy, there were no school regulations and legislations, the inability of schools to meet the needs of the local community. But the main obstacles related to the local community from the school employees point of view were the satisfaction of their awareness of their important roles in the education process and their lack of knowledge of the education legislations. In light of the results, the researchers presented the following recommendations: to conduct studies for the purpose of evaluation the abilities of the local community and to utilize this abilities in supporting the school-work, to activate the legislations that related to the cooperation with the local community in order to clarify the roles and the responsibilities, to run awareness programs to individuals of local community that educate them about the great role that they could play in to develop the school-work as an organization, and choose the suitable time when planning the meetings between the school staff and the individuals of the local community. .

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The following research deals with a very fundamental problematic related to interculturalism; classical and modern. What is understandable from interculturalism is mutural in- fluence between the elements of culture in Arabic literature and those of the Western literature in the domain of criticism. The existing dialogue between human cultures. summarizes the factors of convergence between the cultures especially at the level of academic theories. Eventually, modern Arabic literary studies took a great deal from western studies mostly in approaches since the westen were forerunners in fouding scientific approaches in different domains. Arab critics were influenced by these western approaches due to the openess greatly noticed in literary criticism. As a consequence the identity of the proposed studies is put into question or perhaps the fear of being outrooted off heritage Through certain types, this research tries to create proposals to converge the proposals of heritage criticism with those of modern critcism. The research will deal with different points amongst - theoretical background. - Classical Arabic criticism and the topic of interculturalism. - Structutalism and the differentiating factor in literary criticism. - Post-structuralism theories and the problematic of modern criticism - A conclusion including the main findings. What is meant is to find out the factorr to root what is existant in the field of criticism relating to our heritage and the intruder. .

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