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名师专访|Veena Jordan——我喜欢教学,因为教书一直是有价值的职业!

2019-12-10

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我推崇有趣且富有
创造力的课堂环境




美丽、善舞又有趣的Veena

乐于营造生动有趣

的课堂氛围;

散发着多姿多彩

的人生态度......

Veena Jordan

教授课程

IG生物和A-Level化学(IG Biology and A-level Chemistry)

Veena Jordan是一位专业的教育工作者,拥有成熟的教学和指导技能。教授生物和化学科目,善于运用丰富的教学技巧,激发学生对学科知识浓厚的兴趣爱好和提高对学术问题的持续探索能力。

Veena老师专访

Which class are you most satisfied with? Why is that? 您会有最满意的班级吗?为什么?

As a teacher, I can not discriminate between the best class and the worst class. I always try to work hard towards making the best out of  every class that has been taught.

译文:作为一名老师,我不会用成绩来衡量最好的班和最差的班。我会坚持认真教学,努力把每一堂课都教到最好。







Can you give us some advice on how to learn IG Chemistry or IG Biology?您能给我们一些关于如何学好IG化学或IG生物的建议吗?

Intensive Topic-wise learning alongside collaborating the ideas learnt with other topics is the key to excel IG CHEMISTRY or BIOLOGY Exams.

译文:强化主题,清晰的主题永远是学习IG化学或生物考试的关键。




What moved you most about your teaching?你在教学中最感动的是什么?

I enjoy teaching as it is the most rewarding profession that continues to do so till the end. Any student whom we have taught in our life time will always remember their favorite teacher lifelong.

译文:我喜欢教学,因为教书一直是最有价值的职业。最令我感动是,我们一生中教过的所有学生都会终生记住他们最喜欢的老师。




What's your hobby? 您有什么爱好呢?

I enjoy writing lyrics for the songs that my hubby would do music for, and also enjoy dancing.

译文:我喜欢我丈夫做的音乐(编曲和歌词),也喜欢跳舞。





What is the challenge that you face as a teacher? 作为一名教师,您认为面临的挑战是什么?

Managing learners with different levels of linguistic skills was initially challenging. I am trying to overcome this with differentiated activity – based and project-based teaching pattern.

译文:我一直认为,管理不同语言技能水平的学生,一开始是非常具有挑战性的。我正试图通过差别化的活动型和项目型教学模式来克服这一问题。




 如何成为一名好老师,Veena有她个人的感悟

Three years ago, before coming to China, I was motivating students and teachers of Various educational institutions across various countries. While recognizing that every person in this world is different, and that personality isn’t necessarily something we can steer, I was attempting to identify the key characteristics that most of the ideal teachers had in common from kindergarten to College.

When I refer to  "Ideal teachers," I’m not just mentioning the ones I liked the most in my school or college. I give examples of the teachers who had the greatest influence on me — the ones whose names I still remember to this day, even though in some cases it’s been more than 25 years since I sat in their classrooms. They are teachers I’ve tried to emulate in my own teaching.

What made them the most memorable teachers? I do not have any empirical answers to that question, but I do know that personality was a key factor in all of them. Perhaps we can measure effectiveness in the classroom, to some extent, but how do we really determine quality? It seems to me that we’ve been trying for years, through various evaluation metrics, without a whole lot of success. I’ve known some bad teachers who were able to manipulate the metrics, and some good ones whose excellence wasn’t immediately apparent on paper.

We may never be as funny, approachable, or creative as our favorite teachers. But simply by recognizing those traits as desirable, we can become more approachable, creative, and, yes, funnier than we would be otherwise.

In any case, the following observations are based entirely on my own experiences as a student, a teacher and a trainer for teachers, who has seen many good teachers (and a few bad ones) practice their craft. My hope is that, even if this list is somewhat subjective — not to mention incomplete — it won’t seem entirely unfamiliar.

They are good-natured.

They are professional without being aloof.

 They have a good sense of humor.

They seem to enjoy what they do.

They are demanding without being unkind.

They are tremendously creative..

They make teaching look easy.

At the same time, even if we are not "born teachers," we can work to develop the qualities of those teachers in ourselves. We may never be as funny, approachable, or creative as our favorite teachers. But simply by recognizing those traits as desirable, by acknowledging that we don’t possess them to the degree we would like, and by committing ourselves to working on those areas, we can become more approachable, creative, and, yes, funnier than we would be otherwise. It’s the journey of self-improvement that makes the difference in the lives of our students.

译文:三年前,在我来中国之前,我一直在激励来自不同国家和不同教育机构的学生和老师。这个世界上的每个人都是不同的,个性也不一定是我们可以驾驭的,但我试图找出从幼儿园到大学,大多数理想教师都具有的共同特征。

当我提到“理想的老师”时,我指的不仅仅是我在学校或大学里最喜欢的老师。我举了一些对我影响最大的老师的例子,这些老师的名字我至今仍记忆犹新,尽管在某些情况下,我已经25年没有坐在他们的教室里了。他们是我在教学中努力模仿的老师。

是什么让他们成为最令人难忘的老师?对于这个问题,我没有任何经验主义的答案,但我知道个性是所有这些问题的关键因素。也许我们可以在某种程度上衡量课堂的有效性,但我们如何真正确定质量呢?在我看来,我们多年来一直在尝试,通过各种评估指标,但没有取得很大的成功。很多优秀的老师,他们的优秀并没有立即显现出来。

我们可能永远不会像我们最喜欢的老师那样有趣、平易近人或富有创造力。但只要认识到这些特质,就会变得更平易近人、更有创造力,当然,也会变得更有趣。

无论如何,以上的感受都是我自己作为一名学生、教师的经历。我见过很多老师:


他们是善良的。

他们既专业又不冷漠。

他们有很好的幽默感。

他们似乎很享受自己的工作。

他们的要求并不苛刻。

他们非常有创造力。

他们使教学看起来很容易。

与此同时,即使我们不是“天生的教师”,我们也可以努力培养这些教师的素质。我们可能永远不会像我们最喜欢的老师那样有趣、平易近人或富有创造力。但只要认识到这些特质,通过致力于这些领域的工作,我们就会变得平易近人,也更有创造力。正是这段自我提升的旅程改变了我们学生的生活。


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