乱乱的Every kid needs a champion(每个孩子都需要一个冠军) TED演讲稿中英文对照

2021年1月22日发(作者：风土记)
Every kid needs a champion

每个孩子都需要一个冠军演讲稿中英对照
:

I have spent my entire life either at the schoolhouse, on the way
to the schoolhouse, or talking about what happens in the schoolhouse.
Both my parents were educators, my maternal grandparents were educators,
and for the past 40 years I've done the same thing. And so, needless to
say, over those years I've had a chance to look at education reform from
a lot of perspectives. Some of those reforms have been good. Some of
them have been not so good. And we know why kids drop out. We know why
kids don't learn. It's either poverty, low attendance, negative peer
influences. We know why. But one of the things that we never discuss or
we rarely discuss is the value and importance of human connection,
relationships.

我这辈子
,
要么是在学校,
要么在去学校的路上
,
要么是在讨论学校里发生了什
么事。我的父母都 是教育家
,
我的外祖父母也都是搞教育的
,
过去
40
年我也 在从事
同样的事业。所以
,
很显然
,
过去的这些年里
,我有机会从各个角度审视教育改革。
一些改革是有成效的。而另一些却收效甚微。我们知道孩子们为 什么掉队辍学。我
们知道孩子们为什么学不下去。原因无非是贫穷
,
低出席率
,
同龄人的坏影响。我们
知道为什么。但是我们从未讨论或者极少讨论的是人和人之间的那种联 系的价值和
重要性
,
这就是“关系”。


James Comer says that no significant learning can occur without a
significant relationship. George Washington Carver says all learning is
understanding relationships. Everyone in this room has been affected by
a teacher or an adult.

For years, I have watched people teach. I have looked at the best
and I've look at some of the worst.

James Comer (
美 国著名儿童精神科医师
)
说过
,
没有强有力的联系
,
学习就 不
会有显著的进步。
George Washington Carver(
美国著名 教育学家
)
说过
,
学习就是
理解各种关系。在座的各位都曾经被一位 老师或者一个成年人影响过。这么多年
,
我都在看人们怎么教学。我看过最好的也看过最差的。


A colleague said to me one time,
kids. They pay me to teach a lesson. The kids should learn it. I should
teach it. They should learn it. Case closed.

一次有个同事跟我说,“我 的职责不是喜欢那些孩子们。我的职责是教书。孩
子们就该去学。我管教课
,
他们管学 习。就是这么个理儿。”


Well, I said to her,
don't like.

然后
,
我就跟她说,“你知道
,
孩子们可不跟他们讨厌的人学习。”


(Laughter) (Applause)

(
笑声
)(
掌声
)

She said,

她接着说,“一派胡言。”


And I said to her,
dear.

然后我对她说,“那么
,
亲爱的
,
你这一年会变得十分漫长和痛苦。”


Needless to say it was. Some people think that you can either have
it in you to build a relationship or you don't. I think Stephen Covey
had the right idea. He

said you ought to just throw in a few simple things, like seeking
first to understand as opposed to being understood, simple things like
apologizing. You ever thought about that? Tell a kid you're sorry,
they're in shock.

事实也果真如此。有些人认为一个人或者天生可以建立一种关系或者 不具有
这种能力。我认为
Stephen Covey(
美国教育家
)
是对的。他说你只需要做一些简单
的事情
,
比如试着首先理解他人
,
而不是想要被理解
,
比如道歉。你想过吗
?
跟一个孩
子说你很对不 起
,
他们都惊呆了。


I taught a lesson once on ratios. I'm not real good with math, but
I was working on it. And I got back and looked at that teacher edition.
I'd taught the whole lesson wrong. (Laughter)

我有一次讲比例。我数学不是很好
,
但是我当时在教数学。然后我下了课
,
翻
看了教师用书。我完全教 错了。
(
笑声
)

So I came back to class the next day, and I said,
need to apologize. I taught the whole lesson wrong. I'm so sorry.

所以我第二天回到班上说,“同学们
,
我要道歉。我昨天的课 都教错了。我非
常抱歉。”


They said,
let you go.

他们说,“没关系
,Pierson
老师。你当时教得非常 投入
,
我们就让你继续
了。” (笑声
)(
掌声
)

I have had classes that were so low, so academically deficient that
I cried. I wondered, how am I going to take this group in nine months
from where they

are to where they need to be? And it was difficult. It was awfully
hard. How do I raise the self- esteem of a child and his academic
achievement at the same time?

我曾经教过程度非常低的班级
,
学术素养差到我都哭了。我当时就想
,
我怎么
能在
9
个月之内把这些 孩子提升到他们必须具备的水平
?
这真的很难
,
太艰难了。我
怎么能 让一个孩子重拾自信的同时他在学术上也有进步
?

One year I came up with a bright idea. I told all my students,
were chosen to be in my class because I am the best teacher and you are
the best students, they put us all together so we could show everybody
else how to do it.
有一年我有了一个非常好的主意。我告诉我的学生们,“你们进了我的班级
,
因为我是最好 的老师
,
而你们是最好的学生
,
他们把我们放在一起来给其他人做个好
榜样。”


One of the students said,

一个学生说,“真的吗?” (笑声
)

I said,
when we walk down the hall, people will notice us, so you can't make
noise. You just have to strut.