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  3. When school starts each year, the most important question on the minds of parents and children is, Who will be my teacher? The c

When school starts each year, the most important question on the minds of parents and children is, Who will be my teacher? The c

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问题     When school starts each year, the most important question on the minds of parents and children is, Who will be my teacher? The concern is well founded. Researchers have discovered that school’s deepest influence on learning depends on the quality of the teacher. Students lucky enough to have teachers who know their content and how to teach it well achieve more. And the effects of a very good(or very poor)teacher last beyond a single year, influencing a student’s learning for years. Put simply, expert teachers are the most fundamental resource for improving education.
    This lesson has been well learned by societies that top international rankings in education. The highest-achieving countries—Finland, Sweden, Ireland, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Canada—have been pouring resources into teacher training and support. These countries routinely prepare their teachers more extensively, pay them well in relation to competing occupations and give them lots of time for professional learning. They also provide well-trained teachers for all students—rather than allowing some to be taught by untrained novices—by offering equitable salaries and adding incentives for harder-to-staff locations.
    All teacher candidates in Finland, Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands, for example, receive two to three years of graduate-level preparation for teaching, at government expense, plus a living stipend. Unlike the U.S., where teachers either go into debt to prepare for a profession that will pay them poorly or enter with little or no training, these countries made the decision to invest in a uniformly well-prepared teaching force by recruiting top candidates and paying them while they receive extensive training. With its steep climb in the international rankings, Finland has been a poster child for school improvement. Teachers learn how to create programs that engage students in research and inquiry on a regular basis. There, training focuses on how to teach students who learn in different ways—including those with special needs. The Finns reason that if teachers learn to help students who struggle, they will be able to teach their students more effectively.
    Singapore, top-ranked in math by the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, treats teaching similarly. When I visited Singapore’s National Institute of Education, the nation’s only teacher-training institution, nearly all the people I spoke with described how they were investing in teachers’ abilities to teach a curriculum focused on critical thinking and inquiry—skills needed in a high-tech economy. To get the best teachers, the institute recruits students from the top third of each graduating high school class into a fully paid four-year teacher-education program(or, if they enter later, a one-to-two-year graduate program)and puts them on the government’s payroll. When they enter the profession, teachers’ salaries are higher than those of beginning doctors.
    Expert teachers are given time to serve as mentors to help beginners learn their craft. The government pays for 100 hours of professional development each year for all teachers. In addition, they have 20 hours a week to work with other teachers and visit one another’s classrooms. And teachers continue to advance throughout their career. With aid from the government, teachers in Singapore can pursue three separate career ladders, which help them become curriculum specialists, mentors for other teachers or school principals. These opportunities bring recognition, extra compensation and new challenges that keep teaching exciting and allow teachers to share their expertise.
    Most U. S. teachers, on the other hand, have no time to work with colleagues during the school day. They plan by themselves and get a few hit-and-run workshops after school, with little opportunity to share knowledge or improve their practice. In a study of mathematics teaching and learning in Japan, Taiwan and the U. S. , James Stigler and Harold Stevenson noted that "Asian class lessons are so well crafted(because)there is a very systematic effort to pass on the accumulated wisdom of teaching practice to each new generation of teachers and to keep perfecting that practice by providing teachers the opportunities to continually learn from each other. "
    With these kinds of investments, it is possible to ensure that every teacher has access to the knowledge he or she needs to teach effectively and that every child has access to competent teachers. Such a goal is critical for the U.S. if it is indeed to leave no child behind.
From the passage, we can learn that the key to improve the education in the U.S. is to______.
选项 A、raise teachers’ salary in remote areas
B、provide well-trained teachers for all students
C、rearrange the curriculum so that teachers can have a break
D、allow students to choose their favorite teachers
答案B
解析 推断题。第二段最后一句说，那些世界上教育成就高的国家能够做到的是“让每一个学生都能拥有好的教师”，末段最后一句又重申，教师对于美国的“不让一个孩子落后”的教育目标极为重要，因此[B]为答案。虽然第二段最后一句提到，即使偏远地区也能有好的教师，但这只是提高教育质量的一个措施，不能以偏概全，故排除[A]；文章没有提到重新修订课程，故排除[C]；也没有说最好是让孩子们自己选择教师，故排除[D]。
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