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四级干货》》 作文 |阅读 |翻译 |听力
Why I Became a Teacher: to Pass on My Love of Literature
A) Like lots of people, I never thought I'd be a teacher when I was at
school. To be honest l only did my training because my husband was on a
four-year course and 1was on a three-year course at Cardiff University so I
wanted to do something for one year. I thought doing a teaching qualification
would be interesting and might be quite use full I'm convinced that nothing else
I might have done would have given me so much pleasure and satisfaction, or
fitted in so well with family life.
B) When I retire, in just a few years time, I can look back on a career
which made a positive difference to the lives of thousands of children. Few
other career choices can be so rewarding, so if you have a love of your subject
and want the opportunity to pass that on then teaching can be a great
career.
C) Anyone going into teaching now will be used to teaching to formal work
schemes and observation. I think it has raised standards in the profession but
personally I feel the loss in the classroom. I've got the confidence of 30 years
experience. I've seen new approaches come and go (and sometime even identical
"new ideas" come and go more than once).
D) For me, it's the passion for your subject and interest in the success of
your students that matters more than how all the acronyms (首字母缩略词) add up. This
is what will make you a good teacher. There's still room for individuals but you
have to have the confidence and passion for your subject to make it work.
E) The major challenge in teaching is time. There's not enough of it. It's
hard if you're working full time to cope with the marking and feel Eke you have
enough time to do your job properly. I've worked part time ever since I had
children. I officially work three days a week--trot on my two days off I always
work, it probably all adds up to what counts as a full week's work in most other
jobs but the pay isn't bad so you can work part time and then the job really
does fit in with family life. There are shortcuts to save time, and if had to
work part time I'd have to use. them. But working part time gives me the luxury,
to be a critical marker. It can take two hours to mark a 3,000 word A level
essay, so if you have 16 pupils that's 32 hours of marking in one week for just
one class.
F) One of the benefits of being a part-time teacher is that I do have time
to mark properly. Sometimes my feedback is almost as long as their essay but 1
really want the kids to do well. One of the best things about teaching is you
get to raise children's aspirations, and to make a difference in their lives.
You get visits and emails from your old students to prove it! It's great to make
the difference, and, as they say, it does make it all worthwhile.
G ) The core of teaching is the subject and the pupils. We have a lot of
NQTs and PGCE students coming to our school and sometimes I must admit to being
disappointed when students don't know their subjects that well. I had an NQT who
was teaching Animal Farm and asked me "What's Marxism?" --and she'd got a first
in her degree so it just goes to show that government initiatives to try and
attract those with firsts aren't necessarily going work.
H) However. lots of people drop out of teaching after a couple of years, it
is an exhausting job. So my advice to those just starling out is:
I) Don't lose your sense of proportion over things that happen in the
classroom or in an observation that doesn't go well. As long as in the higger
picture of things you are connecting with kids and the subject--then don't get
frustrated. Even after 30 years of teaching everyone has fearful days in
teaching, he you think: "Can I really do this?"You've got In keep positive; it's
only a problem if you gel mute bad days than good days.
J)Make sure leaching doesn't overwhelm you. You have Io develop strategies
especially if you are teaching a subject which requires a lot of marking. So
plan things well. Get your pupils to do peer marking, which really can work. If
you know you just can't handle any more marking in a particular week, get pupi!s
to write a speech and then perform it in the next class. You've got to think
ahead about times of maximum workload and plan accordingly--ask your more
experienced colleagues for advice
K)You've got to keep your sense of burnout, which is a great v, ay of
relieving a,situation. I know I became a better teacher when I became a parent.
I realised that kids can be so unpleasant sometimes, even your own kids. They
don't mean it; they're just being kids. It doesn't mean they bate you or hate
your lessons, When you're a new teacher coming into teaching, especially if you
are young, you think of the students as almost your adversaries (对手), anti
you've got-to defeat them. But you've got to be, careful what you say. You can't
belittle them too much or you can really harm them.
L) Love your subject. If you are going to succeed in secondary school
leaching you must love your subject. The kids really know if you do or
don't.
M) You have to know your students are individuals, they learn in different
ways. You have to be sensitlive to that.
N ) You can't just teach to a formula. 1 do worry about the diffcuence
between lip service to what the government say it's supposed to be like and what
it's really like. I do hate the untrnthfulness of that and the gulf seems to
widen more anti more. It feels likewhat matters most is what's tested. The
trouble is nothing that is really worthwhile canbe tested. are the love of
learning, connection with literature, having empathy ( 移情作用 )--these are the
things that really make a difference to someone's life but of course they can't
be tested. Young teachers have to he eareful not to get lost in fimnulas and
initiatives. A more experienced teacher will have confidence to respond to kids
anti to talk about an issue that's raised in class that's not on the plan. The
children will learn so much from that but there's no box to tick.
1. Keeping sense of humor rather than belittling your students can help
relieve a situation.
2. Teachers should not teach to a formula because what cannot be tested may
really matter to a student's life.
3. For the author, the main challenge in teaching is that there's no enough
time.
4. For teachers faced with a lot of marking, one strategy is to get pupils
involved in peer marking.
5. When dealing with things that happen in the classroom, teachers are
advised to decide priorities.
6. Working part time enables the author to mark students' assignments
properly.
7. The author believes she has received most satisfaction from teaching as
a career.8. Students can tell whether a teacher loves his subject or not.
9. The author thinks that teaching to formal work schemes and observation
can make a loss in the classroom.
10. According to the author, passion for a subject and interest in
students' success will make a good teacher.
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发表于 2018-12-8 10:33:36