哈罗~大家好~我来分享一个很棒的教育方法 「积极学习法」 ── Marva Collins 最近有感而发觉得教育需要更好的方法，於是又把幸福课再看了一遍。 此生无法念哈佛，也想上哈佛的课 XD 哈佛大学的幸福课已经popular很久了， 但现在分享好像也不算太迟 v(￣︶￣)y　以下是幸福课系列之第二集！ 从 56 分 48 秒开始，这个教授说了他之所以成为老师的原因， 有些观点我觉得很棒、很受用! ------------------------------------------------------- 真得是要用正面思考+正面的言语来教育孩子啊！不论是老师或是家长！ 大推 Marva Collins 的「积极学习法」！ <以下是影片 56 分 48 秒左右开始的演讲> I want to share with you now my role model. In fact, the person who is the reason why I decided to become a teacher. Her name is Marva Collins. Marva Collins was born in Alabama in the 1930s. Her father was African American; her mother, Native American. She was born at a time in a place where there was a great deal of discrimination. Fortunately, for Marva, her father really believed in her and said to her from a very young age, "Marva, you can make something of your life. You can become a secretary." Now the reason why he said secretary is because that was where the glass ceiling, or rather concrete ceiling exists for a person of her ethnic background, a person of her gender. Marva Collins worked hard. She was smart. She succeeded. She made it. And she became a secretary. After a few years of working as a secretary, doing well, she decided this was not for her and what her calling in life. Her real passion was in teaching. She wanted to be a school teacher. She went to night school. A few years later, she got her teaching certificate, got married and with her husband moved to Chicago. There she joined public school system in inner city, Chicago. The reality that she found, that she encountered there was a reality of much crime, much drugs and more than anything, hopelessness. The hope of the teachers was to keep the students in school for as long as possible. Why? ─So that they don't join the street gangs at the age of 12; so that they are protected from the drugs, from crime. "How can we keep the students in school for as long as possible?"asked the teachers. Marva Collins walks into this reality and says, "Things are going to be different." On the first day of class, ─she teaches first graders to fourth graders─ on the first day of class, she says to her students, "We are going to do a lot of believing in ourselves." And she repeats this message over and over and over again, like a broken record throughout the semester and the year and years. "I believe in you. You can do well. You can succeed. Take responsibility for your life. Stop blaming. Stop blaming the government. Stop blaming your teachers. Stop blaming your parents. It is up to you to succeed." And she continues with this message over and over and over again. Having really high expectations of her students, looking at what they are good at, their strength and cultivating those. Miracles begin to happen. These students, considered by many of the teachers to be "unteachable"─ these "unteachable" ones by the time that they are in fourth grade are reading Euripides, Emerson and Shakespeare. These "unteachable" ones at the age of 10 are doing high school mathematics. Now rumor begins to spread about Marva Collins, because how can she keep these students in class for so long, when all the other are just trying to get out of school? She must be using force. And Marva Collins has enough of these rumors, leave the public school system, opens up her own school in her own kitchen with 4 students and initially, two of them her own kids. Gradually, more and more students join the Marva Collins school, Westside Preparatory she calls it. All the students that initially joined the school are public school dropouts. Marva Collins is the last resort before the street. And the miracles continue. Gradually more and more students come in. She has to move out of her home. They wretchedly rent a small shack in Chicago place, freezing in winter, scorching hot in summer. And yet the students are driven by their passion. And they continue. Miracles continue to happen to them. Every one of Marva Collins' students graduates from elementary school. Every goes to high school and graduates from high school. Every one of her students ends up in college and graduates from college. Yes, those "unteachable" ones. Marva Collins lives in a dire poverty for decades, somehow making ends meet. After all, most of her students can't pay. But somehow, months to months, she makes it. 1979 it changes overnight. A producer, from the television CBS program "60 Minutes" finds out about Marva Collins and creates a 15 minutes segment on her. Overnight she becomes famous. November, 1980, new President elect Ronald Reagan calls up Marva Collins offers her to be his Secretary of Education. So I guess her father was right. Marva Collins turns his offers down and says,"I love to teach too much. My place is in the classroom." 8 years later almost to the day, new President elect George Bush Sr. calls Marva Collins once again, offering her to be his Secretary of Education. Once again, "I love to teach too much. My place is in the classroom." In 1995, a wealthy philanthropist donates tens of millions of dollars to Marva Collins. Now there are Marva Collins schools all over the country where thousands of students learn, where hundreds of teachers from all over the world come and see the miracle of Marva Collins. Today there are Marva Collins graduates who are politicians, business people, lawyers, doctors, and more than anything, teachers. Because they know what their teacher has done for them. I want to show you a brief excerpt of this extraordinary woman.　 Marva Collins "Positive Learning"─ I think I did pretty wonderful. I think I'm bright. I think I am unique. And I'll teach every child of me to think that. When they misbehave, their punishment is they have to write 100 reasons why they are too wonderful to do what they are doing. And they have to be alpha order. I am adorable. I am beautiful. I am courageous. I give them the first ones until they get the hang out of it. I am delightful. I am effervescent. I am fabulous. I am heavenly. I am idolized. I am just wonderful. I am kindred spirit. I am lovable. I am momentous. I am never, never under line. And it goes on to z. And if they do it again, then they have to use another synonym. Thay can't use adorable any more. Now the children will say to a new student, "I know why you don't behave. Coz I'm tired of telling Ms. Collins how wonderful I am." ---------------------------------------------- P.S. 前面提到的 secretary 和後面的 Secretary 是双关语， 所以当教授说出"So I guess her father was right."的时候， 台下的学生就顿时哄堂大笑，美国人的笑点XD ------------------------------------------------------ <以下是中文翻译> 现在我要和你们分享我的榜样，事实上，正是因为她，我才决定成为一名教师， 她叫做 Marva Collins，Marva Collins 1930年代出生於阿拉巴马州， 她父亲是非裔美国人、母亲是印地安人，她出生的时候，种族歧视非常盛行， 幸运地是，Marva 的父亲对她非常有信心，从小就对她说 「Marva，你将来会有所作为，你可以成为一名秘书」， 他之所以说秘书是因为那就是无形的障碍，或者说是有形的障碍， 鉴於她的种族背景、鉴於她的性别。Marva Collins 努力工作，她很聪明、她成功了、 她成为一名秘书。做了几年秘书之後，虽然做得不错，但她觉得这不适合她， 这不是她的使命，她真正的热情在於教书。她想成为学校里的一名教师， 於是她上夜校，几年之後，她取得了教师证书，她结了婚并和丈夫搬到芝加哥， 她在那加入了芝加哥的公立学校，她在那里看到的现实是大量犯罪、毒品泛滥、 最重要的是没有希望！老师们的希望是让孩子们在学校里尽可能待久一点， 为什麽呢？因为这样他们就不会在 12 岁就加入街头帮派， 这样他们就不会接触毒品、不会犯罪，「我们怎样让学生待在学校里？」老师们问。 Marva Collins 面对这种现实说：「这现象是可以改变的！」 在上课的第一天......──她教一年级到四年级── 在上课的第一天，她对学生们说： 「我们要练习对自己有信心、相信自己。」 她不断地重复散播这样的讯息，整个学期就犹如不断重播的唱片， 最後坚持了好几年，「我相信你、你能做好、你能成功、承担人生的责任、 停止抱怨、停止抱怨政府、停止抱怨老师、停止抱怨父母、成功与否全在你自己。」 她继续不断地重复着这样的讯息，她对学生们充满期望，把眼光放在他们的长处和 优点上，并进而加以培养。 奇蹟开始发生了...... 这些被老师认为是「不可教」的学生，到了四年级竟然能够读幼里匹蒂斯(Euripides)、 爱默生、和莎翁的作品，这些「不可教」的学生在十岁时，竟然可以做高中的数学题目。 关於 Marva Collins 的谣言於是开始散布...... 她怎能让这些学生在教室里待这麽长时间，而其他学生却想着离开学校？ 她一定是在强迫他们！Marva Collins 受够了谣言的中伤， 她离开公立学校成立了自己的学校，就在她的厨房里，一开始只有四个学生， 其中两个是她的孩子。逐渐地，越来越多的学生进入了 Marva Collins 学校， 她称之为「西岸小学」。一开始进入这间学校的学生，都是从公立学校被退学的， Marva Collins 是他们成为街头混混前最後的希望。 奇蹟继续发生......逐渐地，越来越多的学生进入这所学校就读， 她不得不搬出去，他们在芝加哥租了一间小教室，冬天寒冷无比、夏天酷热难耐， 然而学生们被他们的热情所驱动，他们继续学习，奇蹟也就继续发生在他们身上。 Marva Collins 所有的学生，都从小学毕业了，之後都上了高中 最後也都上了大学，并且顺利毕业。 没错！那些「不可教」的学生！ Marva Collins 数十年生活困苦，然而，她努力平衡收支。 毕竟，她的学生都无法付学费。但是，随着时间的推移，她终究是熬了过去。 1979年，情况在一夕之间扭转了，CBS《60分钟》的制片人得知了 Marva Collins 的故事，并制作了 15 分钟的节目，她便一夕成名。 1980 年 11 月新当选的总统雷根打电话给 Marva Collins 请她担任教育部长。 我想她父亲是对的！Marva Collins 拒绝了邀请， 她说：「我太喜欢教书了，我属於教室。」 恰好八年过去了，新当选总统老布希再次打电话给 Marva Collins ， 请她担任教育部长，再一次，她说：「我太喜欢教书了，我属於教室。」 1995 年，有一位富裕的慈善家捐赠了数千万美元给 Marva Collins， 现在全国都有 Marva Collins 学校，数千名学生在里面学习， 来自世界各地的数百名教师，前来目睹 Marva Collins 的奇蹟。 今天 Marva Collins 的学生有政治家、商人、律师、医生，而最多的就是老师了。 因为这些老师们知道他们老师的功劳。现在，我要展示这位杰出女性的一个片段。 Marva Collins「积极学习法」─ 我想我做得很好，我想我很聪明、我很特别， 我会教每个孩子这样想，当他们不守规矩的时候， 他们的惩罚就是要写 100 个原因，说明他们为什麽「棒」到要做那样的事， 而且还要按照字母顺序写。我很可敬(adorable)、 我很漂亮(beautiful)、 我很勇敢(courageous)，我给他们例子直到他们明白， 我令人快乐(delightful)、 我很欢乐(effervescent)、 我超棒(fabulous)、我超赞(heavenly)、 我是榜样(idolized)、 我无与伦比(just wonderful)、 我很热情(kindred spirit)、 我很可爱(lovable)、 我很重要(momentous)、 我从不调皮(never, never under line)， 一直写到最後一个字母，如果他们再犯， 他们必须要用另一个同义词，他们不能再用可敬(adorable)了， 现在孩子们会对新同学说：「我知道你为什麽不守规矩了， 因为我已经厌倦告诉 Collins 老师我有多棒了！」 影片：http://www.facebook.com/aballoffire/posts/193995074044019 --

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