I. Reading, страница 121, часть 1 - гдз по английскому языку 11 класс учебник Демченко, Бушуева

I. READING

1. Read the article and say in 2–3 sentences what it is about.

Teaching is still a good job, but definitely not an easy option

After starting his career as a car mechanic, headteacher Tony Ryan only did a teaching degree to get a management position in industry. Now he’s driving up results at Chiswick School.

“When I was at school, this is the last job on Earth I’d have thought I’d be doing. I went to a boys’ Catholic secondary, with a very traditional offer. My parents are working class Irish. They came over to find work and wanted the best education for me. But they’d left school at 14 themselves, and they didn’t really know what a good education looked like. There was a career interview at 15. It was a 20-minute affair, and the adviser said, “What do you want to do?” I replied – and I have no idea why – “Be a car mechanic.” I left school at 16 and went straight into an apprenticeship with British Leyland.

The apprenticeship transformed my experience of learning. I was treated like an adult, given a reason to learn and most of what I was studying was contextualised – put an engine in front of me and suddenly science made sense.

After you’ve serviced three cars a day for a year or two, it starts to get a bit tedious. I was seeing men in their 40s and 50s on the shop floor who were completely spent. Aged about 20, I picked up the Evening Standard on the way home one night and saw the Inner London Education Authority was sponsoring people to do a two-year teaching degree. I grabbed it with both hands. The intention wasn’t to go into teaching – it was to get a degree, get back into industry and move into management.

It sounds really corny, but the first time I stood in front of a class of kids in a rough school in Greenwich, I knew I wasn’t going back. I was left with 28 year-10 students on my own. Somehow I survived. That was my first week of teacher training; it was the biggest challenge of my life. I did well to keep them in the room for 40 minutes.

Next was my first headship, at one of the first City Technology Colleges, in Dartford in Kent. We used a college system, and I was headteacher of one of the colleges. I had my own staff of 38, and the opportunity to create from scratch new traditions and atmosphere. I really believe that students don’t achieve their best unless they know they’re comfortable, safe, valued and have a reason to learn. A lot of that is fuelled by my own experiences, but also now, from a lot of reading. This may sound really “hippy” but we decided that we weren’t going to shout at the kids. If you can get a family feeling and not an “us and them” atmosphere, then children will surprise you with what they can do.

In September 2010 Chiswick Community School (as it was) was slowly finding its way out of trouble. I’ve been working as headteacher at Chiswick School since then. Managing people is the best aspect of this job. We try to push it all the time, and I’m very proud to say that last year we achieved the best set of results that the school has ever had. You’re trying to enable people to be the best they can be; everyone will have a trigger, finding that is the key. When it gets difficult, you’ve got to be honest. Over the course of my career as a head, I have met a few staff members who just aren’t cut out to be teachers. The best thing is to sit them down, and suggest that something else might be better.

The hardest part of being a head is when parents occasionally don’t back you. If you have kids throwing punches, you simply can’t have it. And the parents will sometimes come in and make a hundred excuses; it’s not their child, it’s not their fault. When you don’t get that support, it’s disappointing.

I’m pretty good at switching it off. I’m disciplined because I have three great kids at home and I don’t feel it’s fair to them to bring work back all the time. When I have to, I will stay an hour longer at school during the week; at weekends I’ll probably do about four hours. You’ve got to learn to limit it, because if you allow it, the job will expand to fill every available crack.”

2. Read aloud the extract which talks about Tony’s first experience as a headteacher.

3. Why did Tony change his attitude towards learning?

4. What are good and bad aspects of Tony’s job?

2. Прочитайте вслух отрывок, в котором говорится о первом опыте Тони в качестве директора школы.

3. Почему Тони изменил свое отношение к учебе?

4. Каковы хорошие и плохие стороны работы Тони?

Ответ:

2. “Next was my first headship, at one of the first City Technology Colleges, in Dartford in Kent. We used a college system, and I was headteacher of one of the colleges. I had my own staff of 38, and the opportunity to create from scratch new traditions and atmosphere. I really believe that students don’t achieve their best unless they know they’re comfortable, safe, valued and have a reason to learn. A lot of that is fuelled by my own experiences, but also now, from a lot of reading. This may sound really “hippy” but we decided that we weren’t going to shout at the kids. If you can get a family feeling and not an “us and them” atmosphere, then children will surprise you with what they can do.”

3. His attitude towards learning was transformed by his apprenticeship. He was treated like an adult, given a reason to learn, and his studies were contextualised. For example, when an engine was put in front of him, science suddenly made sense.

4. The best aspect of his job is managing people and enabling them to be the best they can be. The hardest part is when parents don’t support the school, especially regarding discipline issues, and make excuses for their children's bad behavior, which is disappointing.

Перевод:

2. «Следующим шагом была моя первая должность директора в одном из первых городских технологических колледжей в Дартфорде, в Кенте. Мы использовали систему колледжей, и я был директором одного из них. У меня был свой штат из 38 человек и возможность с нуля создавать новые традиции и атмосферу. Я искренне верю, что ученики не достигают своих лучших результатов, пока не знают, что им комфортно, безопасно, что их ценят и у них есть причина учиться. Многое из этого подпитывается моим собственным опытом, а теперь еще и большим количеством прочитанного. Это может прозвучать по-хипповски, но мы решили, что не будем кричать на детей. Если вы сможете создать семейную атмосферу, а не атмосферу «мы и они», то дети удивят вас тем, на что они способны.»

3. Его отношение к учебе изменила стажировка. С ним обращались как со взрослым, дали ему причину учиться, а его обучение было привязано к контексту. Например, когда перед ним поставили двигатель, наука внезапно обрела смысл.

4. Лучшая сторона его работы — это управление людьми и предоставление им возможности стать лучшими, на что они способны. Самое трудное — это когда родители не поддерживают школу, особенно в вопросах дисциплины, и находят оправдания плохому поведению своих детей, что разочаровывает.