Unit 12  Education教案

1. advocate  2. tendency  3. housewife  4. obtain  5. schedulet: all of you did a good job. i think both group a and group b are winners. thank you.step ii warming uptalk about the pictures with the teacher’s help.t: yesterday you were told to google confucius, anton makarenko, anne sullivan and tao xingzhi. try to say something about when they lived, where they came from, how they taught their students and so on. who would like to say something about confucius?sa: i’d like to try. confucius was born in 551 bc, and died in 479 bc. according to chinese tradition, confucius was a thinker, political figure, educator, and founder of the ru school of chinese thought.sb: it is said that confucius’ great grandfather had moved from his native land song to lu, somewhere near the present town of qufu in southeastern shandong.sc: confucius’ teachings, conversations and exchanges with his students are recorded in the lunyu. study, for confucius, means finding a good teacher and imitating his or her words and deeds. a good teacher is someone older who is familiar with the ways of the past and the practices of the ancients.t: very good. now who would like to say something about anton makarenko?sd: anton makarenko was born in 1888 and died in 1939. he was one of the outstanding soviet educators.se: i would like to quote something from makarenko’s works, which shows his way of teaching: “... education is a process that is social in the broadest sense....with all the highly complex world of ambient activity, the child enters into an infinite number of relationships, each of which constantly develops, interweaves with other relationships and is compounded by the child’s own physical and moral growth. all this ‘chaos’ is seemingly quite unquantifiable but nevertheless gives rise at each particular instant to definite changes in the personality of the child.” sf: i have another piece from his works to share: “labour becomes an effective means of communist education only when it forms a part of the general educational process; at the same time, this has no meaning unless all children and adolescents are involved in types of socially useful work suited to their age.”t: all right. so much for the russian educator. how about anne sullivan?sg: anne sullivan (1866-1936) was a devoted teacher who, despite her own handicap, demonstrated a tireless commitment to a student (helen keller) who had severe learning disabilities. she developed a method of touch teaching, using direct experience rather than attempting to explain a concept; and she reasoned that children learned by imitation and repetition, working out their own understanding of the subject.