THE TEACHER'S ROLE ON BUILDING THE HIGH-SCHOOL STUDENT'S SELF-ESTEEM

The teacher represents one of the key-persons who can influence the student's personality in a significant way. Often, the teacher's mission has been compared with an artist who shapes the own creation, seeing its masterpiece in an ordinary bunch of clay. But being a teacher does not mean just to have scientific expertise in a particular field and pedagogical skills - here, it is also a matter of sacrifice, dedication, passion and consciousness, leading to be a model for the students. More, the teacher's influence transcends the time and the school space. A good teacher can change the student's life. Just as a teacher who is not aware of its own role can permanently cut the young wings. This can be happened in a period like the adolescence, when the younger's self-image is crystallized. In this context, the teacher represents one of the most important modelers who contributes to the perfection of this irreversible process. This present paper tries to highlight the relationship between the actual-self and the ideal-self personality of high-school students and to emphasize on the teacher's contribution to the building process of student's proper and realistic self-image. The analysis was based on the feedback of 529 high-school students recorded in a dedicated questionnaire, addressed after the implementation of inquire-based science teaching modules designed in the frame of the European FP7 Project called: "PROFILES Professional Reflection Oriented Focus on Inquiry-based Learning and Education through Science". (C) 2017 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.UK