《大学英语阅读教程》unit 8-1.pptVIP

Each teaching experience was a learning experience for her, so that she grew in competence throughout her whole career. 15) Why did Mrs.Able refuse to share her methods with her colleagues? She felt she had spent almost 40 years on it so they couldnt get it for nothing. Question 16) What did the author wish Mrs. Able to do? He wished that she had _________ __________more freely and that she had been __________ to new ideas. Question shared her materials more open 17) What was the key to Mrs. Abels success? She was ________to feedback. She knew which methods were effective and she learned to improve her teaching while she taught Question sensitive 2. Difficult Points In 1943, I taught in a basement room in Central Elementary School in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada. In the other basement room, Mrs. Abel taught first grade. My first impression of Mrs. Abel was of a short, plump, middle-aged woman with gray hair combed up into a large neat bun on top of her head. She wore black walking shoes and was dressed, as always, in a navy-blue skirt and white blouse. Mrs. Able Her most impressive characteristics were her manner and speech. She had an aura of complete calm and she looked directly at whomever she spoke to. I had been warned by the principal that the other teachers found her impossible to get along with but that she was a wonderful teacher and the children and their parents loved and admired her. Later, he told me of a problem he had: All the parents of first-graders wanted their children to be in Mrs. Abels class because she was known throughout the district as the best teacher of beginning reading and writing. It was not long before I understood why she did not get along with the school staff. She attended only the first staff meeting of the school year and did not go to in-service meetings or school social functions. She preferred to eat her lunch in her classroom with her pupils rather than in the staff lunchroom. She told me she was the best f