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年9月中级口译听力总评  

Why We Must Fire Bad teachers
The relative decline of American education at the elementary- and high-school levels has long been a national embarrassment as well as a threat to the nation's future. Once upon a time
American students tested better than any other students in the world. Now
ranked against European schoolchildren
America does about as well as Lithuania
behind at least 10 other nations.
For much of this time—roughly the last half century—professional educators believed that if they could only find the right pedagogy
the right method of instruction
all would be well. They tried New Math
open classrooms
Whole Language—but nothing seemed to achieve significant or lasting improvements.
Yet in recent years researchers have discovered something that may seem obvious
but for many reasons was overlooked or denied. What really makes a difference
what matters more than the class size or the textbook
the teaching method or the technology
or even the curriculum
is the quality of the teacher. Much of the ability to teach is innate—an ability to inspire young minds as well as control unruly classrooms that some people instinctively possess (and some people definitely do not). Teaching can be taught
to some degree
but not the way many graduate schools of education do it
with a lot of insipid or marginally relevant theorizing and pedagogy. In any case the research shows that within about five years
you can generally tell who is a good teacher and who is not.