2013年6月英语四级考试第三套试卷阅读理解SectionB原文及翻译.docVIP

Eight essential lif skills that schools can teach our kids A) I learned at an early age from my mother that there was more to school than reading, writing, arithmetic and lunch. She was a teacher. I was an eager student of the academic sort. That didnt impress her. She told me later it was clear I was ready to read when I was 4, but she refused to teach me because I needed more work on my social skills. B) She will turn 93 at the end of this month. I am tempted to call and ask her to evaluate how I turned out, but I fear the answer. My life has been a lot of reading and writing, with some arithmetic. Even as a parent I rarely considered how well my childrens schools were teaching life skills that went beyond what is assessed under No Child Left Behind. C) The habits of the heart are probably learned almost as much at school as at home. But which ones can we reasonably expect teachers to address? What should we look for to make certain these immeasurable but invaluable traits are being reinforced? D) With help from Local Living Editor Liz Seymour, whose children are just starting school, I came up with eight essential life skills. I sought expert opinion on their importance and how to teach them. E) Here are mine, in no particular order: F) Organization.Linda Allen, a star math teacher in Arlington, said helping students absorb a sense of structure is key to her middle schools success. A good teacher, regardless of the content area, has todays main idea and homework in the same area of the room every day. That teacher reminds students every day to copy the information down at the start of the class, and gives them time to do that. She gives parents timely feedback about work completion so that intervention can happen sooner rather than later. G) A related lesson is deferring gratification. Psychologists Angela L. Duckworth and Martin E.P. Seligman, by seeing what happens when children have the choice of a dollar today or two dollars next week, have concluded that se