The word teacher has its roots in the Latin word meaning to lead or to draw out. Good teachers draw out the best in every student; they are willing to polish and shine until the true luster of each student comes through.
A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. Mrs Collins is no miracle worker. I do not walk on water, I do not part the sea. I just love children and work harder than a lot of people, and so will you
She left nothing to chance.
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 encouraagement. They have to be told that it is all right to make mistakes because mistakes are part of lea... (查看原文)
To 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.“ (查看原文)
在写摘录之前，先说点题外话吧。很喜欢这本书《The Marva Collin’s Way》 by Marva Collins & Civia Tamarkin，因为这是个真实的故事，一个真正令人敬佩的故事，一个令人值得深思的故事。
无意间在哈佛的幸福课上听到了书名，去豆瓣搜书，发现却只有英文版，不过阅读起来问题不大。打开以后，就有些爱不释手了。原本是想翻译一下的，但是，版权是别人的，擅自全文翻译不是件正确的事。我们似乎很少注意版权的问题，侵权的事情数不胜数，我们不关心，知道自己也称为受害者。我自己也不例外，因为根本没有这个意识。要想改变这个局面，首先要从自己做起，所以，只进行一些摘录，并指明出处。以下所有引号内的内容皆出自《The Marva Collins’ Way》(All contents in quotes come from 《The Marva Collins’ Way》)
本书开篇的寄语：”To our children and all children, may they find their own way. ” 一句话，点明了Marva Collins对基础教育根本目的理解：希望所有的孩子们能够找到真正属于他们自己的路。有这样的理想和目标，付出的努力才更有意义。
作者开始写这本书的时候正是美国的1980年初。堆积了多年的教育问题渐渐浮出了水面，教育系统腐败，公立学校招生率低，学生的阅读水平很差以及师资力量薄弱。
一个令孩子们敬佩并尊重的教育者，要做到的：
“没有什么秘诀。我只是诚实的对待所有的孩子。他们知道我不会让他们失望。他们听我的是因为我不是个外来者。我时刻都和他们在一起学习工作。如果这个社区里有谁也能如此有兴趣的对待这些孩子，那么孩子们也会对他/她一样尊重。”
“Teaching is not just a job. It is a human service, and it must be thought of as a mission. –Dr. Ralph Tyler” 教师并不仅仅只是一份工作。它更是一项为所有人类服务的光荣使命。我们常说教书育人，但是也许我们做的时候，只有教书，却没有育人。教书也不见得交的多好。
“She was constantly in motion about the class, patting heads, touching shoulders, hugging and praising students.” 她一直很在乎整个班级的情绪，不停的拍拍学生的头，触碰他们的肩膀，拥抱并赞扬他们。班上有超过30个学生，但她没有漏掉任何一个，她使每一个学生都得到了关注。她并不仅仅教他们，她真正的呵护培育他们。
这三十多个孩子当中，水平层次不齐，跨过了各个年龄段，这倒是像我们的山区学校，说到这里，向山区的教师致敬，向支教的大学生致敬。
The word teacher has its roots in the Latin word meaning to lead or to draw out. Good teachers draw out the best in every student; they are willing to polish and shine until the true luster of each student comes through. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. Mrs Collins is no miracle worker. I do not walk on water, I do not part the sea. I just love children and work harder t...
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The word teacher has its roots in the Latin word meaning to lead or to draw out. Good teachers draw out the best in every student; they are willing to polish and shine until the true luster of each student comes through.
A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. Mrs Collins is no miracle worker. I do not walk on water, I do not part the sea. I just love children and work harder than a lot of people, and so will you
She left nothing to chance.
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 encouraagement. They have to be told that it is all right to make mistakes because mistakes are part of learning.
Having children read silently in class only allows their mistakes to go unnoticed.
I am always reminding my students that if you give a man a fish, he will eat for only a day. If you teach him how to fish, he will feed himself for a lifetime
Fairy tales and fables whet a child's appetite for more reading, and they are an excellent means for teaching the rudiments of literacy analysis
Sometimes the class was a kind of group therapy session. They shared their experiences, and I was open in talking about mine. I never believed a teacher should pretend to be perfect. A teacher who never displays any human weaknesses makes children self-conscious about admitting their own.
Knowing a child's previous record can sway a teacher's expectations. Each child came to me with a clean slate.
The one thing all children finally wanted was the chance to be accepted for themselves, to feel some self-worth. Once they felt it, children became addicted to learning, and they had the desire to learn forever.
No matter how many times he shouted at me, 'I hate you and I'm not going to do the damn work,' i always answered, 'I love you all the time, even when you behave like this.'
There is no such thing as the way to reach a student. Any way is the way as long as it works for the individual child.
One of the things I hated most about the public schools was how quickly teachers 'blue-slipped' children for psychological referral. Every time they came across a child who was too hard to deal with, out came the blue slip, a convenient excuse.
A teacher's assessment of a child is necessarily based on that teacher's life experience. That means certain children trigger a positive or negative reaction because of the teacher's past, a reaction having little to do with the children's abilities or personalities.
A teacher can make or break a child, favor or stigmatize him
A teacher has to be sensitive to all things at all times. Even such offhand remarks as 'Your older brother was a brilliant student' or 'You're the biggest one in class so you stand in the back row for the assembly program' can alienate a child.
I have come to believe that some of the problems plaguring modern education are the result of the emphasis placed on 'progressive' teaching methods.The fact is a teacher can combine both progressive and traditional approaches to learning, each enhancing the other. There is no reason why a teacher can't be sensitive to a child's needs and at the same time teach the child subject matter and skills.
I never gave homework until I was certain that the child could do it successfully.
My approach is to address a fault without ever attacking a child's character. Who they were was always seperate and distinct from what they did. A child could give up the behavior without giving up any dignity or self-worth.
I prepared my children for life. And I didn't mince any words in doing it. I didn't hesitate to discusss crime in the ghetto, drugs, prison, or teenage pregnancy.
I did not teach black history as a subject apart from American history, emphasize black heroes over white, or preach black consciousness rather than a sense of the larger society.
The concept of self-determination goes hand in hand with self-discipline. The general rule in my class was that behaviour contributing to the learning process or benefiting another child was acceptable. Anything that took away another child's right to learn was not.
I never took sides in a student scuffle, and I refused to hear who threw the first punch. Instead of listening to any feeble excuse about who did what to whom, I had the two culprits embrace and say 'I love you' to one another.
The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.
The more successful a person becomes, the harder he or she has to work to stay there.
I wasn't there to judge my students, my job as a teacher was to get their talents working. And that's what I tried to do.
These books are over the head of the student readers; that is the purpose of reading them. We read to stretch the mind, to seek, to strive, to wonder, and then reread.
The one question that ought to be asked on a teaching application is: do you love children? To me that's the most important criterion for a teacher, more important than credentials or college degrees.
If you take the problems to the parent, you and the child will not learn to trust each other and work together. Children respect teachers who do not always send notes home to parents.
Just as Michelangelo thought there was an angel lovked inside every piece of marble, I think there is a brilliant child locked inside every student in this school.
At WPS, we rinse out the negative brainwashing and replace it with postive reinforcement, consistently telling our pupils that they come from royal blood, and that there is nothing they can't do. We mean it, and because of we believe in them, the students come to believe in themselves.
Make sure students know that if they can't make mistakes, they can't make anything. Create a positive classroom ambience so that your students know it is more courageous to make a mistake than to play it safe by not responding.引自 all
Wouldn’t the frogs have been better off learning how to take care of themselves？The fable shows us we have to lead ourselves instead of looking for others to lead us. If we don't think for ourselves, others will do what? They will do our thinking for us. We must each be the captain of our fate and the master of our soul." I don't need any tests to show me how much you know. I see it every da...
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Wouldn’t the frogs have been better off learning how to take care of themselves？The fable shows us we have to lead ourselves instead of looking for others to lead us. If we don't think for ourselves, others will do what? They will do our thinking for us. We must each be the captain of our fate and the master of our soul."引自第91页I don't need any tests to show me how much you know. I see it every day by what you do in here. But we learn how to take tests because we live in a world that often judges us by how we perform on tests. 引自第104页We live in a label-conscious society where people are forever trying to categorize and classify each other. We tend to overuse terms like "learning disability," "developmental disabilities," "behavior disorder," and " hyperactive, " bandying them about until they are stretched beyond validity. 引自第111页Othen a problem in the classroom lies not with the child but in the relationship between the child and the teacher. A teacher's assessment of a child is necessarily based on that teacher's life experience. That means certain children trigger a positive of negative reaction because of the teacher's past, a reaction having little to do with the children's abilities or personalities. For example, a child might remind a teacher of someone, perhaps a sibling or a classmate he or she didn't get along with. 引自第112页For students the vast pool of teachers is like an educational lottery. A child is lucky to draw a good teacher and get off to a winning start, but there is no guarantee that another teacher the next year will keep the child on track. 引自第113页
Marva 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. Adults should take a positive approach with children. The most important thing we can do as parents and teachers is to build a child's self-confidence. Any child can learn if h...(3回应)
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Marva 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. 引自第39页Adults should take a positive approach with children. The most important thing we can do as parents and teachers is to 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."引自第42页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." 引自第43页I had always been fascinated with learning, with the process of discovering something new. 引自第47页At some point my dependence on my father began to bother me. I felt constricted by small-town life. After four years in Atlanta I found Monroeville too confining. It was time to grow up and be on my own. 引自第48页
在哈佛的公开课上教授推荐了这本书，刚开始看。仅仅是开头就让人觉得这不是真实的故事，但同时这又的的确确是真实的。这才是真正的教育家！ 第一章： 摘抄一些句子： There is no secret. I just deal honestly with children. They listen to me because I'm not a outsider who comes over here and talks down to them about what it is like to be poor. I'm right here working with them all the time! Show them consist...
There is no secret. I just deal honestly with children. They listen to me because I'm not a outsider who comes over here and talks down to them about what it is like to be poor. I'm right here working with them all the time! Show them consistent interest!引自第1页
以下都是摘录: That was the kind of determination I learned from him. He was a man of strong values and uncompromising beliefs. The 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. Eventually, with lots of praise and lots of hugging, his defensiveness would melt. The only th...
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以下都是摘录:
That was the kind of determination I learned from him. He was a man of strong values and uncompromising beliefs.
The 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.
Eventually, with lots of praise and lots of hugging, his defensiveness would melt. The only thing all children finally wanted was the chance to be accepted for themselves, to feel some self worth. Once they felt it, children became addicted to learning, and they had the desire to learn forever.
A child who doesn’t know how to read can’t do anything. But children do not learn to read by osmosis. It required work——hard boring work without any shortcuts.
As the weeks passed, Gary found it difficult to remain hostile. No matter how many times he shouted to me, “I hate you and I’m not going to do the damn work,” I always answered, “I love you all the time, even when you behave like this.”
My approach is to address a fault without even attacking a child’s character. Who they were was always separate and distinct from what they did. The gum chewing was displeasing, not the child. I might tell a child, “You are acting like a fool. Why? You are not a fool.” With that difference clearly established, the children could open themselves to my comments and criticisms. A child could give up the behavior without giving up any dignity or self-worth.
Without education, man is a slave, a savage wandering from here to there believing whatever he is told.
Children do not need to read stories that teach “street smarts.” They learn enough on their own. What they need are character-building stories. They need to read for values, morality, and universal truths. That was my reason for teaching classical literature.
If he liked himself, if he had self-respect, he would not have had to prove anything, would he?
Words are ideas. They make up thoughts. If our words are limited, our thoughts are limited.
How many children are discouraged from pursuing an education because teachers have taken it upon themselves to judge who can achieve and who cannot? I wasn’t there to judge my students. My job as a teacher was to get their talents working. And that’s what I tried to do.
I have found that great literature not only teaches students to read but makes them thirsty for more and more knowledge. These books are over the head of the student reader; that is the purpose of reading them. We read to stretch the mind, to seek, to strive, to wonder, and then reread. We discuss the ideas contained in those books with others, and we temper our own thoughts. The great books are great teachers because they demand the attention of the reader. The mundane content of second-rate literature turns students off from reading forever.
We never assign to children what we do not understand ourselves. Never assign children books that you haven’t read.
I wasn’t just passing out candy, rubbing the children’s heads, and telling them how cute they were. I was trying to give them the skills to survive, forever telling them that each person must decide what he or she is going to leave to society for the privilege of living here. It was through the children in my school that I hoped to change the attitude of future generations.
If the other aspects of their lives were in chaos, then it was up to me give my children the stability they needed.
QUESTION: How can I be sure my children learn to read?
ANSWER: Perhaps the most important thing you can do is to set a good example by making sure your children see you read often. In addition, read something to your children every day, no matter how old they are. Even adolescents need and often want you to read with them, or to have them read to you. Reading to, or with, them is a good way to discover their strengths and weaknesses. Follow the reading sessions with questions, such as, “What happened in that story?” and “What do you think will happen next?”
经典对话:
“I already got one,” said the boy with the Superman shirt, clowning again.
“Do not say ‘I already got one.’ Say ‘I have one.’ But don’t tell me to stop giving you homework. I asked you before would you tell me to stop giving you money? You know, you are a handsome boy. You don’t have to stretch your mouth back like that in a grin. You were born to win, so don’t make yourself a loser.”
I was forever compiling lists of positive, motivating slogans: You are unique---there is no one else like you. The world moves aside to let you pass only if you know where you are going. Character is what you know you are and not what others think you are. You know you better than anyone else in this world. People's ideas actually tell you how they feel about themselves. Instead of teaching bla...
2022-03-07 21:08:12
I was forever compiling lists of positive, motivating slogans:
You are unique---there is no one else like you.
The world moves aside to let you pass only if you know where you are going.
Character is what you know you are and not what others think you are.
You know you better than anyone else in this world. People's ideas actually tell you how they feel about themselves.引自第139页Instead of teaching black pride I taught my children self-pride. All I wanted was for them to accept themselves. I pointed out that in many ways the ghetto is a state of mind. If you have a positive attitude about yourself, then no one can put you down for who you are or where you live.引自第142页Without education, man is a slave, asavage wandering from here to there believing whatever he is told.引自第144页"My hope, " I explained, " is not that you will look literate but that you will be literate. Remember the story of the emperor's new clothes? I don't want to turn you into a bunch of emperors running around without any clothes. I don't want you to pretend you are educated. I want you to act and think like educated people all the time. "引自第145页Words are ideas. They make up thoughts. If our words are limited, our thoughts are limited. 引自第170页Never make children feel that their fears or questions are silly. The fears are real to them. And try not to embarrass a child in front of the other children. They don't like to be ridiculed in front of others any more than we do. 引自第182页" That's right. And you know what we say in here: if you can't make a mistake, you can't what? "
" Make anything. "引自第193页It's the people who don't like themselves very much who make trouble for the others. The mess society is in today starts with people who don't like themselves.引自第158页
Wouldn’t the frogs have been better off learning how to take care of themselves？The fable shows us we have to lead ourselves instead of looking for others to lead us. If we don't think for ourselves, others will do what? They will do our thinking for us. We must each be the captain of our fate and the master of our soul." I don't need any tests to show me how much you know. I see it every da...
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Wouldn’t the frogs have been better off learning how to take care of themselves？The fable shows us we have to lead ourselves instead of looking for others to lead us. If we don't think for ourselves, others will do what? They will do our thinking for us. We must each be the captain of our fate and the master of our soul."引自第91页I don't need any tests to show me how much you know. I see it every day by what you do in here. But we learn how to take tests because we live in a world that often judges us by how we perform on tests. 引自第104页We live in a label-conscious society where people are forever trying to categorize and classify each other. We tend to overuse terms like "learning disability," "developmental disabilities," "behavior disorder," and " hyperactive, " bandying them about until they are stretched beyond validity. 引自第111页Othen a problem in the classroom lies not with the child but in the relationship between the child and the teacher. A teacher's assessment of a child is necessarily based on that teacher's life experience. That means certain children trigger a positive of negative reaction because of the teacher's past, a reaction having little to do with the children's abilities or personalities. For example, a child might remind a teacher of someone, perhaps a sibling or a classmate he or she didn't get along with. 引自第112页For students the vast pool of teachers is like an educational lottery. A child is lucky to draw a good teacher and get off to a winning start, but there is no guarantee that another teacher the next year will keep the child on track. 引自第113页
Often a problem in the classroom lies not with the child but in the relationship between the child and the teacher, A teacher 's assessment of a child is necessarily based on teachers life experience. That means certain children trigger a positive or negative reaction because of the teacher’s past, a reaction having little to do with the children's abilities or personalities. For example, a ch...
2022-01-09 11:31:26
Often a problem in the classroom lies not with the child but in the relationship between the child and the teacher, A teacher 's assessment of a child is necessarily based on teachers life experience. That means certain children trigger a positive or negative reaction because of the teacher’s past, a reaction having little to do with the children's abilities or personalities. For example, a child might remind a teacher of someone, perhaps a sibling or a classmate he or she didnt get along with引自第112页
Marva 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. Adults should take a positive approach with children. The most important thing we can do as parents and teachers is to build a child's self-confidence. Any child can learn if h...(3回应)
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Marva 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. 引自第39页Adults should take a positive approach with children. The most important thing we can do as parents and teachers is to 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."引自第42页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." 引自第43页I had always been fascinated with learning, with the process of discovering something new. 引自第47页At some point my dependence on my father began to bother me. I felt constricted by small-town life. After four years in Atlanta I found Monroeville too confining. It was time to grow up and be on my own. 引自第48页
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在写摘录之前，先说点题外话吧。很喜欢这本书《The Marva Collin’s Way》 by Marva Collins & Civia Tamarkin，因为这是个真实的故事，一个真正令人敬佩的故事，一个令人值得深思的故事。 无意间在哈佛的幸福课上听到了书名，去豆瓣搜书，发现却只有英文版，不过阅读起来问题不大。打开以后，就有些爱不释手了。原本是想翻译一下的，但是，版权是别人的，擅自全文翻译不是件正确的事。我们似乎很少注意版权的问题，侵权的... (15回应)
1 有用 Dolphinson 2011-05-29 18:56:41
这本书太棒了！
6 有用 Sophie 2011-06-15 17:54:02
GR: 4.38 (60) LT: 4.54 (80) 这本书对家庭教育的借鉴意义大于学校教育，应该推荐给年轻父母们: There is a brilliant child locked inside every student
2 有用 海狸君 2021-04-11 00:00:16
Marva的声学基础教学法、爱的教育让许多传统教育体系里的问题学生成为超越同龄人的积极学习者。我初中时候曾有老师骂到一个同学退学不再读书。教师工作看似平凡，却影响着学生的人生轨迹。可惜，无论是书中的70、80年代的美国，还是我所经历的90-00年的中国，体制内基础教育者的素质都差得令人害怕。
2 有用 shininglove 2018-08-10 13:55:14
“让积极的态度代替漠不关心和自暴自弃”
1 有用 starry 2012-08-21 08:59:40
中国的文化环境是绝对不会出这样一个传奇人物。
0 有用 无肉不欢 2022-05-04 18:25:16
A teacher who is also a fighter, a booster and a preacher
0 有用 Sinclair 2022-04-13 16:07:48
感觉Marva爱和相信每一个孩子，她在每一个孩子身上的付出远远超过了一般老师能做到的/老师工作的的物质报酬。在我心里，她已经超凡入圣了。
0 有用 自得其乐的小雲 2022-03-07 21:34:21
无条件的对孩子有如此积极的信赖和期待，大概是一种很少人会有的天赋。
0 有用 pheebs 2022-02-06 22:28:17
读了中文版
0 有用 正在想的昵称 2022-02-04 10:56:19
Brilliant teacher model. Enormous dedication, passion and hard work.