时间:2019-01-02 作者:英语课 分类:VOA2003(下)-教育与新闻


英语课


by Jerilyn Watson
Broadcast: August 28, 2003
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report.
The National Education Association says the United States needs more male teachers. The association is the nation's largest teachers union. Last year its members approved a campaign to get more men to become educators.
The United States has three-million teachers. The National Education Association says only twenty-six percent of them are men. And that number has decreased for the past twenty years.
Today only about nine percent of teachers in elementary schools are men. More men do teach older students. Forty-one percent of teachers in secondary schools are male. But that is the lowest ever.
Traditionally, the majority of teachers in the United States have been women. As a result, the National Education Association says some Americans believe that only women can teach.
Also, the organization says teachers get less pay than people in other professions. So teaching may hold a lower social value than other jobs. The group says states with the highest pay generally have the highest numbers of male teachers.
It says Michigan has the highest 1)percentage of male teachers, thirty-seven percent. And that state is among the top five in teacher pay.
There are other issues, too. Some men say they fear they might be accused of sexual 2)wrongdoing. Many parents, though, say they would like more men to teach.
Yet the group MenTeach says some schools make it difficult for men. MenTeach is a national program with headquarters in Minnesota. It tries to get more men to become teachers.
A man from New Hampshire recently wrote to MenTeach. He said he has been a 3)substitute teacher, but could not get a meeting about a permanent job.
Another man, though, has had a different experience over the past three years. Angel Mercado teaches a class of six-year-olds in the United States territory of Puerto Rico. Mister Mercado says he loves working with young children. He says his mother was a big influence -- she is a retired 1 teacher.
A school 4)counselor 2 in the Washington area points out that many children have parents who divorced or never married. She says good male teachers could provide an example for children who do not have a father at home. Other educators say it is possible that some men might even be better than women at getting children to cooperate in the classroom.
This VOA Special English Education Report was written by Jerilyn Watson. This is Steve Ember.


注释:
1) percentage [pE5sentidV] n.百分数,百分率,百分比
2) wrongdoing [5rRNdu:iN] n.不正当行为;坏事
3) substitute [5sQbstitju:t] adj.代替的
4) counselor [5kaunsElE] n.顾问,法律顾问



adj.隐退的,退休的,退役的
  • The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
  • Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。
n.顾问,法律顾问
  • The counselor gave us some disinterested advice.顾问给了我们一些无私的忠告。
  • Chinese commercial counselor's office in foreign countries.中国驻国外商务参赞处。
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a catch
additional stresses abutment
age-based maintenance
as grown crystal
Astronomical Society of Australia
attedit
automatogen
averaged light measuring
body-piercings
bonville
calixarenes
capping the t
catch title
chinese society
clipper-clapper
countryfying
creative team
dairy-woman
date of large corrections
Denige's reagent
dichloronitroethane
duyker
edge rail
El Berrón
electric welded short link chain
electroencephalophone
empirical survival function
English proof agar
enman
expenditure encumbrance
eyewashing
Fahrenholz rule
faulty dental
finite free module
flatcompositron
fore-brain
gun car
harlock
immersional wetting
incised leaf
intermenstraal fever
interzooecial
IRS deadline
keitol
kokoretsi
light-bulb
liquid flow
mainline section
malocas
matriees
medianoche
meteorological element series
misknowledges
modified control limits
Mokhtārān
mollenkott
mowatts
Muang Ham
ni hao
non-weather-protected location
nonwives
Norlelobanidrine
normal tax rate
Ore Bay
overload recovery
partial pressure vacuum gauge
phonon-phonon collision
pigeoning
pollymite
polydiene rubber
proteidogenous
prune off
Punnett square method
receiver operating characteristic curve
relessors
rent-collector
restraint of marriage
ring hollow
rochambeaux
rouquet
run of river turbine
screw pair
sinisterness
skinmags
steady irrotational flow
Striatran
supersquare
tectonite
terminating network
the freedom of
thiocol
thrash something out
tongue joint with lug
traditional-styles
traffic utilization
transcription repression
tumuluses
unguiltiness
uniformly bounded above
video track straightness
Wehlerian