Читайте также:
|
(Recording 2)
- Isabel, you are a teacher in a middle school, aren’t you?
- Yes, I am.
- And how old are the children.
- In Ealing, middle school children are between 8 and 12 but in other authorities they could be between 9 and 13.
- But yours are between 8 and 12. And do you like it?
- Very much so, I do.
- How long have you been teaching young children?
- About 8 years now.
- 8 years. Have you always taught at this level?
- No, I used to teach in secondary education and then about eight years ago I moved into the middle school section.
- And you prefer it, you think?
- Yes, I think you have more chance to teach different things. You teach a greater variety of subjects.
- Right. What sort of personal qualities do you think are needed to be a teacher of children?
- I think, especially with children of that age range they are very enthusiastic, and so you need to be able to follow their enthusiasms and be as enthusiastic as they are, and to be adaptable.
- So enthusiasm and adaptability really. And I suppose you have to have a training course and special qualifications to be a teacher? Did you go to a training college or anything?
- Actually, I didn’t. I took my degree and then I went into teaching straight after my degree.
- That’s all right, is it? You go straight from university then to teaching?
- You used to be able to but now you need to have a teaching qualification first.
- I see, so it’s changed in fact. And do you think that teaching older children could be more interesting or not? You really prefer this age, 8 to 12, rather than older children?
- I used to really enjoy teaching older children but I found that after teaching them for a few years I was stuck teaching my subject and I wanted to teach different subjects, and I wanted more variety in my job.
- You don’t think they give you more ideas or they’re more adult in their approach to everything? Older children that is.
- Oh, yes. I wouldn’t say they are more stimulating. I mean sometimes the things that you’re talking about are more interesting and the work you are doing is more interesting to you, but the younger children are just so enthusiastic and you can see their development and you can see what they’re learning.
- And it’s more rewarding?
- It’s more rewarding at that age.
- Yes. Just as the matter of information, how do the salaries compare between middle school teachers and secondary school?
- They are exactly the same, except that in a high school you have more chance of promotion. There are only three scales in a middle school, but in a high school you could have beyond scale 4 or be a senior teacher, so there is a lot less chance of promotion in a middle school than in a high school.
- So you think the career prospects are not very good really in your position?
- Not as much as in a high school.
- No. You don’t mind that?
- No, because I enjoy the job I am doing.
- What sort of people, do you think, tend to become teachers like you of this age?
- That’s difficult to say. I think people are just so varied. You know, people go into teaching for lots of different reasons. Very difficult to generalise.
(from Developing Strategies, by B.Abbs, I.Freebairn. Unit 3)
UNIT 5
Lesson B
Peter Parker
Peter Parker is an English language teacher. He was always good at languages at school, so he decided to take his degree in French and German. When he finished his university studies he began teaching in the secondary school in England. Two years later,however, he met someone by chance who offered him a job teaching English to foreign students during the long summer holidays. His students were adults and he enjoyed the work immensely. He soon found he was more interested in teaching his own language to foreigners than foreign languages to English school-boys.
Since then he has specialised in this work. He has found that one of the advantages of the job is that it enables him to find work almost anywhere in the world. First he went to Africa for two years and then he spent a year in Arabia.
After this he went to Greece where he has worked for the last 3 years. He hasn’t been to South America yet but he intends to go there next. He has taught men and women of all ages and of various nationalities. He has also learned to get on with all kinds of people and to adjust to different ways of life. So far he has not regretted his decision to follow this career.
(from London Intermediate English Course, by D.Ware. Programme 11)
Дата добавления: 2015-11-16; просмотров: 308 | Нарушение авторских прав
| <== предыдущая страница | | | следующая страница ==> |
| Looking for a job. Parts 1, 2 | | | CONSOLIDATION 1 |