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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acastus
alkylolamides
amhts
and/nor gate
bags cover dirty
bavarette
benbie
bilious colic
Birofeld
boletinus pictus
bouquetin
box connecter
breadcutter choke
breast-
brestel
bridge fault
Camellia parafurfuracea
Casearia balansae
chordoid tissue
coefficient of moisture absorption
comma butterflies
composition of concurrent forces
convection chamber
Costa del Crime
Cotolon
cycloreversions
Dazhui
education-baseds
Epidihydrochlolesterin
Ergotrate
false activation
festerings
five kinds of retardation
freeze dry
fuliginous
garden design
get patent for
habeshia
half-good
Hami melons
heighteners
hood fastener
hydrophilic soft corneal contact lens
ileocecostomy
in record numbers
in-body
infraspecific
journal brass alloy
lehr belt
let sth ride
line advance
Lorexane
low-budget
melolonthidaes
methanesulphonates
methoxys
microcomputer interface kit
mole vaporization heat
mud-flat community
n.o.
natural electromagnetic phenomena
nepeans
nestiostomy
Nimrod Glacier
nitro dyestuff
nuclear material balance report
old person
part-winding starting
pascuous
phytocordyceps ninchukispora
piffy on a rock bun
premonochromator
proselytizes
Protoverin
pseudopeptidoglycan
Pulmobeta
radiation biochemistry
red hepatization
Rickettsiales
Samotlor, Ozero
scopometry
seismic cable winch
shrine-goers
Slivenska Planina
snaintons
spongite
steam curing of concrete
straw shredder
t'ings
transfer coefficient of element
transport park
travel rope
tricks of fortune
triple pole single throw
turbo-compound diesel
underwater-to-air guided missile
waist-deeps
wide distribution
wind edema
XFCN