Marva Collins' Way
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自得其乐的小雲2021-02-25Marva moved up and down the rows of desks. " I could just cry that you have no sounds," she said, " for sounds make up words, and words are thoughts. Ideas. And the thoughts and ideas in your heads make you what you are.
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白小鸥2020-05-21有些家长似乎想要把所有对孩子的责任都推给我。我相信，必须强大起来并为孩子定调子的应该是家长。然而，有些家长不花时间读书，也不给孩子读书，家里也没有书。然而，不知为什么，他们却期待老师把他们的孩子变成有能力并且有求知欲的阅读者有些父母不给孩子立规矩，却期待老师在课堂上维持好纪律和联序。有些家长想知道，为什么孩子不做作业，然而，这些孩子在家却从未被要求承担责任，或者做些家务。
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Archimeton2015-11-05所以，我并没有遵循“看-说”法的教学大纲。事实上，我的许多内容都超出了教学大纲。 比如，我在教他们加减法时，会告诉他们算术（arithmetic）这个词是希腊语，意思是金额。 而人们用 digits 表示数字，这是由拉丁文中的 digitus 演变而来，因为 digitus 在拉丁文中是 手指的意思，过去人们就是用手指数数的。我还教他们毕达哥拉斯(古希腊数学家、哲学家) 认为，数学能让小学生们变得完美，得到上天的优待。我告诉他们苏格拉底说过思想不会拐 弯的人生活也是直来直去（straight thinking lead to straight living）。我给他们朗读名言警句和 《101 首名诗》，我们会谈到爱默生的“自尊自爱”，培根的“关于教育”和梭罗的瓦尔登湖 里的“一个人无法赶上同伴的步伐，或许是因为他听到了不同的鼓声”。 但是我教孩子们这些不是要让他们变得迂腐。我希望他们能阅读这些好文章并影响他们的一 生，学会如何生活。我努力给孩子们展示加菲尔德以外的世界。如果你们不向他们介绍外面 的世界，他们是不会意识到还有什么地方可以去的。 我的方法就是教小孩建立完整的人格。一个老师应该帮助孩子发挥自己的个性，建立一个积 极的自我形象。我关心学生的各个方面——他的态度，举止，着装。我得确信我的学生干净 整洁，穿衣得体。我教他们走路要昂首挺胸，要有自尊心和自信心。我时刻提醒他们，一个 人的命运取决于他怎样看待自己。这些是我的父母告诉我的，我坚信这一点。 从小我就坚持自己信仰，不会为了取悦他人而改变自己。但是因为我坚持自己的教学方法， 引来了德拉诺学校的其他老师的愤慨。我在整个一生中都得面对这样的问题，我的坚定往往 会让别人觉得疏远，甚至在我小时候也是如此。 从新学期开始到现在，已经六个星期，马文的学生已经习惯于这样的“题外话”了。她从来 不会斥责像杰罗姆这样...
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人间惆怅客2012-12-161.对于我来说，错误意味着这个孩子需要帮助，而不是惩罚或嘲讽。我们永远不能对孩子们说，你很蠢，或者你做不了这个，或者你不知道你自己在做什么。成人们应该对孩子有个积极的态度。2.孩子们非常善于模仿大人。如果一个老师嘲笑或指责某个学生，那么学生们可能也会彼此嘲笑，反之亦然。3.我在公立学校教书时间越长，就越意识到学校除了教学不在乎，其他的都在乎。似乎那些管理者们想要的就只是 I Q 测试和成绩排名。 孩子们有没有学到东西根本就不重要。什么东西也比不上那些根据成绩而做出绩效考核重要。老师们要特别教学生们应付考试的技巧。奇怪的是，如果孩子没有学好，没有人会追究老师的责任。如果一个八年级的学生还不会阅读，也没有人去问他的一年级、二年级或者三年级老师，这是怎么回事。没有，他们认为这些都是孩子的错。4.苏格拉底说过思想不会拐弯的人生活也是直来直去（straight thinking lead to straight living）——运气好，一路顺风；运气背，直撞南墙，一次死不了还有第二次第三次【后面这句是我自己加的- -】 5.我在整个一生中都得面对这样的问题，我的坚定往往会让别人觉得疏远。——【学霸的心声有没有！】6.如果我抱怨这些教材和大纲，他们就非常烦。如果我抱怨消防演习过于频繁，午餐室卫生太差或者学生厕所的手纸太少，他们就会说我是在教师会上浪费时间。他们劝我关上教室，充耳不闻。但是我做不到。7.当我确信某件事是正确的时候，我就不能退缩甚至妥协。8.成功者从不会放弃，而放弃的人永远不会成功！成功的人总是积极地面对压力。如果生活给他们一颗柠檬，他们会用它做柠檬汁。我不想在他们面前隐藏我的真实感受。我告诉他们有时候我的内心受到伤害，非常想哭，但是这绝不是因为他们。让孩子们，尤其是年纪小一点的孩子理解这一点很重要，因为他们很容易把成年人遇到的麻烦事归咎于他们自己。9....
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小草2012-08-06Sometimes, I give my students incomplete questions with facts deliberately omitted. I do this to teach them how to evaluate information and to get them to realize that not every question can be answered. They eventually learn to tell me there isn’t enough information.
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小草2012-08-06The search for connections between what they read and what they see around them gets the children’s minds clicking for classroom discussion, which is the heart of the lesson. I remind my students that they each have an opinion and that their opinions are important. I don’t tell them what to think. I try to teach them how to think. It is useful in these discussions to introduce a question without a clear-cut answer, a question to stimulate critical thinking.
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小草2012-08-06The book you give to a child who is learning to read determines what he or she will read later on. If we give children the boring Dick-and-Jane type of stories, how can we spark their curiosity in further reading? Fairy tales and fables whet a child’s appetite for more reading, and they are an excellent means for teaching the rudiments of literary analysis.
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小草2012-08-06So it went through the long and the short vowel sounds and then the consonants, each with an associative key.
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小草2012-08-06That was her method, to pool as much information as possible, to bombard the children with names and facts and anecdotes they could draw upon later. Of course the children wouldn’t remember everything. Exposure to knowledge was what mattered. Some of it would sink in.
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小草2012-08-06It was typical of the spontaneous lessons Marva treated her class to daily. Nothing was irrelevant if it could be used to pique a child’s intellectual curiosity.
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小草2012-08-06She never reprimanded a saucy remark like the one Jeromo had made. She saw it as a test, a personal challenge. She liked to think she could transform anything into a learning experience.
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小草2012-08-06Marva made sure she found something to praise in each of the children every day, even if it was nothing more than the color of their socks, a new pencil, a bright smile, or a good job of washing the back of their neck.
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小草2012-07-26I try to get them in the habit of using correct grammar when they speak, and I have them read aloud every day so I can check pronunciation as well as comprehension. Having children read silently in class only allows their mistakes to go unnoticed.
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小草2012-07-26Children need immediate feedback, especially in math and language where they need to master one skill before they can go on to the next...Delay in correcting errors only makes the child fall behind.I find that children often understand a concept better when you take them to the black board rather than trying to correct them at their seat...She was probably not as beautiful as I then thought, but the way she walked and moved made her seem very sophisticated. I wanted to be just like her.
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小草2012-07-26Praise is essential in developing the right attitude toward learning and toward school. We all know this in theory. In practice we often forget the importance of praise in dealing with children. We forget how sensitive children can be and how fragile their egos are. It is painful for a child to be told “This is wrong.” Rather than punishing, teachers and parents should encourage continued effort:”This is good. It’s a wonderful try, but it is not quite right. Let’s try correcting this together.
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小草2012-07-26To me an error means a child needs help, not a reprimand or ridicule for doing it wrong. No child should ever be told “That’s stupid” or “You can’t do it” or “You don’t know what you’re doing.” Adults should take a positive approach with children. The most important thing we can do as parents and teachers is build a child’s self-confidence. Any child can learn if he or she has not already been taught too thoroughly that learning is impossible. Children need reassurance and encouragement. They have to be told that it is all right to make mistakes because mistakes are part of learning. I tell my students:”If you knew everything there is to know, then you wouldn’t have to be in school.“