That morning, I stepped into the classroom, ready to share my knowledge and experience with seventy-five students who would be my English Literature class.Having taught in for seventeen years, I had no about my ability to hold their attention and to on them my admiration for the literature of my mother tongue.
I was shocked when the monitor shouted, " !" The entire class rose as I entered the room, and I was somewhat about how to get them to sit down again, but once that awkwardness was over, I quickly my calmness and began what I thought was a fact-packed lecture, sure to gain their respect—perhaps their admiration.I went back to my office with the rosy glow which came from a sense of achievement.
My students diaries.However, as I read them, the rosy glow was gradually 49 by a strong sense of sadness.The first diary said, "Our literature teacher didn’t teach us anything today. her next lecture will be better." Greatly surprised, I read diary after diary, each expressing a theme."Didn’t I teach them anything? I described the entire philosophical framework of Western thought and laid the historical for all the works we’ll study in class," I complained." How they say I didn’t teach them anything?"
It was a long term, and it became clear that my ideas about education were not the same as of my students.I thought a teacher’s job was to raise questions and provide enough background so that students could their own conclusions.My students thought a teacher’s job was to provide information as directly and clearly as possible.What a difference!
, I also learned a lot, and my experience with my Chinese students has made me a American teacher, knowing how to teach in a different culture.
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A.the UK |
B.the US |
C.China |
D.Australia |
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A.worry |
B.idea |
C.doubt |
D.experience |
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A.impress |
B.put |
C.leave |
D.fix |
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A.Attention |
B.Look out |
C.At ease |
D.Stand up |
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A.puzzled |
B.sure |
C.curious |
D.worried |
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A.found |
B.returned |
C.regained |
D.followed |
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A.more |
B.even |
C.yet |
D.still |
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A.passed |
B.borrowed |
C.read |
D.kept |
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A.replaced |
B.taken |
C.caught |
D.moved |
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A.Naturally |
B.Perhaps |
C.Fortunately |
D.Reasonably |
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A.different |
B.strong |
C.similar |
D.usual |
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A.happenings |
B.characters |
C.development |
D.background |
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A.should |
B.need |
C.will |
D.must |
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A.immediately |
B.certainly |
C.simply |
D.gradually |
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A.that |
B.what |
C.those |
D.ones |
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A.difficult |
B.interesting |
C.ordinary |
D.unusual |
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A.draw |
B.look |
C.search |
D.offer |
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A.strange |
B.standard |
C.exact |
D.serious |
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A.Therefore |
B.However |
C.Besides |
D.Though |
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A.normal |
B.happy |
C.good |
D.better |
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