新视野大学英语读写教程第一册unit1-c Teaching Children at Home
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Section C
Teaching Children at Home
Record numbers of children are being taken out of school and taught by their parents at home. Up to 100 children a month are leaving the classroom because parents are not satisfied with schools. Around 15,000 families now teach their children at home, a rise of 50 per cent from last year, according to the latest figures.
This present rise in home schooling is blamed on the nature of examinations, not getting children into the school of choice, and dissatisfaction with teaching methods. Some parents prefer keeping children home because of attacks by other students and a lack of discipline in schools. Researchers say, however, many families prefer teaching at home because they feel the idea of public schooling is not modern. They believe schools will be things of the past in 20 years as media technology, like the Internet, teaches children. 1. ______
Under the law, parents must teach their children, whether at school or at home. Community officials are charged with protecting their schooling. Professor Meighan of Nottingham University says parents were fed up with the requirements of existing schools. For him, schools are an out-of-date concept from the days of the town crier（市政传令员）, when it was difficult to get information and a central person was needed to communicate knowledge. He also thinks parents are recognizing education is moving on and don't want their children to be held back by out-of-date methods. 2. ______
Meighan suggests children will be taught at home using the Internet, computers, and video（录像片）. He thinks future schools will be small groups of children, sharing equipment in their homes. The teachers may become advisers who sort through the information. 3. ______
Future schooling was questioned by Sir Christopher Ball of the Royal（皇家的）Society of Arts. He thinks learning in the future will include an international curriculum and international standards. He sees some present models of schooling — community schools and home schooling, for example — becoming more central and other models, not yet existing, may develop. 4. ______
How Personal Choice Brings O-Level Success at 13
Leslie Barson is already running the type of school that researchers think will teach children in the future. Based partly at a community centre and partly in family homes, the Otherwise Club includes some 35 families around north London. Professional teachers are brought in to help with special subjects, but mostly parents and children work together on units like studying the Greeks or the American Civil War, reading about events, making costumes（戏装）, and learning how people used to live. 5.______ 6. ______
Parents choosing home schooling say the freedom of home learning allows some children to sit one or two GCEs by the age of 13. Ms. Barson's own children, Luis, age 12, and 7-year-old Lilly, have never attended school. She pays around 2,000 pounds a year for private teachers to help in special areas. She set up the Otherwise Club six years ago with just a few students. She thinks the purpose of teaching children is to develop their self-worth. Her son agrees. Luis, now teaching himself math, said, "I like the freedom to learn things that interest me, especially music. I don't feel I am missing out on anything by not being at school because I am a member of various clubs and have friends who attend normal school." 7. ______ 8. ______
The “Danger” of Separating Students
Home schooling could change children's relations with their peers and older people because of long periods spent with their parents. Most professors agree future learning will be more centred around the home, and fear children could become isolated and shy. Professor Michael Barber of London University said pupils could spend half their time at school, half at home as a way to solve this problem. He believes very strongly that children need the experience of school to ensure the quality of being taught the basics and being examined. He thinks children must spend time with peers to learn the rules of work in a democratic（民主的）society and to learn how to deal with relations with more people than just their parents. Margaret Rudland, head teacher in Hammersmith, also thinks children must experience actual peer relations. 9. ______ 10. ______
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学生在家就学
许多孩子正离开学校，由父母在家对其实施教学。 由于家长对学校不满意，每个月有多达100名儿童离开教室。 根据最新统计，目前约有1.5万个家庭让孩子在家就学，比去年增加了50%。
目前家庭学校数量的增加归咎于考试的性质，不能让孩子进入选中的学校学习以及对教学方法的不满意。 有些家长更愿意让孩子在家学习是由于孩子受到其他学生的欺负以及学校缺乏纪律性。 然而研究人员认为，许多家庭选择让孩子在家学习，是因为他们觉得公众教育不够现代化。 他们认为由于因特网这类传播技术能够让孩子们接受教育，20年之后学校将成为昨日黄花。
根据法律，家长必须教育孩子，不管是在学校还是在家里。 社区官员有责任保护这种教育。 诺丁汉大学的梅甘教授说家长对现有学校的各种要求感到厌倦。 在他看来，从靠市政传令员口述传达重要信息的时代以后，学校已是过时了。当时人们很难得到信息，因而需要一位重要人士来传递信息。 他同时认为家长意识到教育正向前发展，不希望让过时的方法制约孩子的发展。
梅甘认为使用因特网、电脑和录像片可以让孩子在家里学到知识。 他认为未来的学校会是几个孩子在家共用设备。 老师则是筛选信息的顾问。
皇家艺术协会的克里斯托弗·鲍尔爵士对未来教育提出了质疑。 他认为未来学习将包括国际课程和国际标准。 他发现一些现存的教育模式——如社区学校和家庭教育——可能会变得更加重要，同时还会形成其他的教育模式，尽管现在还未存在。
个人选择如何使孩子在13岁时获得O级教育证书
莱斯利·巴森已在管理着一种研究人员认为在将来用于教育孩子的学校。 这所俱乐部学校，部分以社区中心为基地，部分以家庭为基地，由伦敦北部周围35户家庭组成。 一些专业教师被请来上一些专门课程，但有些学习单元主要由家长和孩子一同学习，如学习希腊史和美国内战史，阅读关于重大事件的书籍，制作舞台道具以及了解过去人们的生活方式。
选择家庭学校的家长说，由于在家学习自由，有些孩子13岁时便获得一两种通用教育证书。 巴森女士的孩子，12岁的路易斯和7岁的利利从未上过学。 她每年大约花2000英镑聘请私人教师帮助上些特殊课程。 6年以前她建起了这所俱乐部学校，当时只有几个学生。 她认为教育孩子的目的是发展他们的自我价值。 她儿子赞同这一观点。路易斯现在正在自学数学，他说道：“我喜欢自由自在地学习我感兴趣的东西，尤其是音乐。 我不觉得自己会因为不上学而失去什么，因为我是多个俱乐部的成员，还有许多在上正规学校的朋友。”
使孩子们分开的“危险”
家庭学校可能改变孩子们与同龄人和大人的关系，因为孩子和家长待在一起的时间很长。 大多数教授都认为未来学习将更多地以家庭为中心，但他们同时担心孩子们会变得离群和害羞。 伦敦大学的迈克尔·巴伯教授说，为了解决这个问题，学生可以一半时间待在学校，一半时间待在家里。 他深信孩子们需要在校学习的经历，以保证基础知识的学习和考试的质量。 他认为孩子们必须有时间和同龄人相处，以了解民主社会的工作规则，学会如何与更多人打交道，而不仅仅是与父母相处。 哈默史密斯学校校长玛格丽特·拉德兰德也认为孩子们必须与同龄人交往。
