issue51 第一篇 请斑竹和各位战友赐教切磋!!!

christina125UID: 2221751

7. Education will be truly effective only when it is specifically designed
to meet the individual needs and interests of each student.【51】
教育只有被专门设计来满足每一个学生个人需求和兴趣的时候才是真正有效率的。


Two factors influenced the efficiency of the learning process. One is the needs and interests of each individual towards certain disciplines or domains, the other is the indispensable knowledge and skills that should be inculcated to students to help them become adaptable and survive. Insofar as the interests promote the enthusiastic towards learning, it makes many people take it for granted that the truly effective way of education is to design it to meet the needs and interests of each individual student. However, further reflection shows that only when these two factors are properly combined can we achieve the goal of truly effective education.

Let's first take a look at the previous form of individual education, which is the home education many decades ago. In this early form of education, students are taught by private tutors individually. Under such circumstance, it's much easier for the teacher to meet the needs and interests of the student. Nevertheless, this wasn't proved to be a successful way of education. For one thing, just imagine if everybody are taught separately, there're definitely not enough teaching resources; teachers and teaching materials are not made full use of; physical education are restricted to individual items, no basketball or baseball team, only individual vanguard or ballplayer; no more collective activity because the focus is on individual while a group needs cooperation and compromise. for another, even if there exist families rich enough as to employ all sorts of teachers in charge of every shown needs and interest, it is more likely that the potential needs and interests are ignored, for sometimes it is the collective activity and interaction with peers rather than merely parents and teachers that spark and inspire the inner needs and interests, therefore, such kind of individual-oriented education can't accomplish the efficiency goal.

In a second thought, let's take it to another form being executed in the status quo, say, in the schools. Proceed with our imagination, what kind of chaos it's going to be? In the first place, we have to make clear of each student's needs and interests, which will surely turn out to be intractable as at least in China a large portion of students don't know what their needs and interests are, this is even more obvious in the elementary stage. And how can we rely on an innocent student for what he needs to grow up to an independent and adaptable adult to survive in this society? As for interests, it is more often induced by the external factors. A case in point is that a kid has learned painting, and the teacher found and praised his talent, and that's probably why and when he started his interest in art. If such kid with a painting talent unaware of it himself and never touched a paintbrush, how could he establish this potential interest and need? In the second place, conceding that we have collected each individual's information, and in the next step, schools may have to set up many classes and teaching schedules for only one or two students, this is not only unpractical for teaching resources, but also hard to achieve in management. Without these two factors, where lies the efficiency?

In deduction, we come to realize that solely emphasis on individual's needs and interests is far from enough to build up the truly efficient education. We have to give the second factor equal recognition. No one is perfect, especially those squab students who can't decides all about their education according to their unbroadened horizon and incomplete consideration. Their thriving needs the external help, to let them know what's indispensable, what's necessary and to induce their potential talents and interests. A student doesn’t like maths and has no knowledge of even basic maths will doom to be fettered in his future life for he might even has trouble in reckoning; and a student who refuse to learn writing for he doesn't like it will absolutely in trouble when he grows up. Therefore, it's the school's responsibility to provide a learning atmosphere of indispensable knowledge and skills as well as abundant choices that help individuals develop their unique interests and needs. And a proper combination of these two factors will surely lead to truly efficient education.

From what has been discussed above, we may safely draw the conclusion that it is the proper combination of individual's needs and interests and the indispensable knowledge and skills that contribute to a truly efficient education system, and it is a goal needs persistent effort and adjustment.:)

[ 本帖最后由 expire7 于 2006-7-4 22:43 编辑 ]

christina125UID: 2221751

顶一下, 我是7月31号厦门考...想找差不多的同伴一起努力

expire7UID: 2160574

注意你的发帖的标题不对，请参看置顶帖格式修改一下。
最近有不少新队正在凑建，你可以去那些帖子看看。互改是提高比较好的一个方法。

expire7UID: 2160574

粗看了一下写的还是不错的文章了。基本的AWE结构已经掌握不错了，句式词汇也不错。不知道你用时是多少。加油吧。
上次放上来之前，检查一下拼写和语法错误吧。

chengnicoleUID: 2216897

我也是7月31日考，广州的
刚好也写了这篇
https://bbs.gter.net/viewthre ... e%3D1#pid1768770738

你的词汇量真的很不错，用了好多GRE单词。

关于home education的后果分析，我觉得可能不能完全代表specifically designed to meet individual needs and interests的后果。

[ 本帖最后由 chengnicole 于 2006-7-2 18:09 编辑 ]

christina125UID: 2221751

多谢斑竹指点, chengnicole我的QQ308685302,7月31号厦门考,以后还要多多切磋啊,呵呵~~

christina125UID: 2221751

我的其他链接

第二篇issue88
https://bbs.gter.net/viewthre ... e%3D2#pid1768779360

第三篇issue4
https://bbs.gter.net/viewthre ... e%3D1#pid1768779343