Colleges and universities should require all faculty to spend time working outside the academic world in professions relevant to the courses they teach. [Specific Task Instruction: Write a response in which you discuss your views on the policy and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider the possible consequences of implementing the policy and explain how these consequences shape your position.]
翻译
大学应该要求所有老师都花时间来研究一些与自己所授课程相关的非学术问题。[说明:写一篇文章,讨论你对于这个政策的观点,并解释你选择这个观点的理由。在展开和支持你的观点时,你需要考虑这个政策生效以后可能带来的结果,并解释这些结果如何支持了你的观点]
指导
本题改编自老GRE的ISSUE50"In order to improve the quality of instruction at the college and university level, all faculty should be required to spend time working outside the academic world in professions relevant to the courses they teach"。教师研究与所授课程相关的学术问题是必须的,而本题需要阐述的是与课程相关的非学术问题与教学质量之间的关系,要分析的是为什么这些非学术问题会与教学质量相关。注意,不能只罗列出老师需要研究哪些非学术问题,而要阐述研究这些问题对教学的作用。
1. 描述一位你认为优秀的大学教师,他/她在教学过程中除了体现学术方面的高水平外,还体现出了什么非学术的能力?
回答:
她能够很好地管理课堂,让绝大多数学生将注意力集中到她所讲授的能容上;同时,她能通过各种方法与学生进行互动,如课堂提问、课堂讨论甚至课堂表演,而不是一个人喋喋不休地讲却不顾及到学生的反映。
2. 对于教师来说,哪些问题是与所授课程相关的非学术问题?这些问题会对教学起到什么作用?请举例说明。
回答:
1.Good teachers have to be excellent managers. It is not easy to keep all students focused on what the teacher is talking about, so a goode teacher must be equipped with some managerial skills with which he or she can keep the class in order.
2.To improve teaching quality, a good faculty has to understand how to interact with students efficiently.Insteading of chattering without stop and ignoring studnets' reception, it would be best for the faculty to adopt various approaches, such as classroom questioning, class discussion even class performance, to interact with students in order to guarantee they are wholeheartedly emgaged in class.
3. 教师的哪些素质会影响到大学的教学质量?这些素质哪些是学术方面的,哪些是非学术方面的?请举例说明。
回答:
Academic:
1.An excellent faculty in the first place must has a solid mastery of the subject he or she devotes to. The faculty should not only profoundly understands basic knowledge of the subject, but also keep himself up to the newest information and progress relating to what he is researching.
Non-academic:
1. A qualified professor has to have a great deal of practical experience in his or her field of study. The wisdom that has been garnered over the years may be outdated and practical experience will enable a faculty to evaluate whether the subject meets the market need.
2. A good teacher is an excellent communicator. Not only in the sense that they can convey ideas clearly to you through spoken words, write neatly on blackboard, produce informative presentation, but also they are readily and eagerly to answer students' question when necessary and be the bridge between students and textbook.
3. Things listed above.
4. 教师花时间来研究与课程相关的非学术问题有什么好处?有什么弊端?请举例说明。
回答:
Advantages:
1. If they spend time on practical experience, they will be informed themselves of the market trends of the subject.
2. If they spare some time and effort to learn communication skills, management pricinples and even psychology basics, their communication with students and management of class ought to be much more efficient.
Disadvantage:
1. The only disadvantage of doing so is that chances are some faculty do not have adequate time and energy to focus on the field of their study.