qualify sb to do_be prepared to_qualify sb for

How to make a good teacher

What matters in schools is teachers. Fortunately, teaching can be taught

好老师，如何造

学校最重要的是师资力量。幸运的是，教学可以被教授。

FORGET smart uniforms and small classes. The secret to stellar grades and thriving students is teachers. One American study found that in a single year’s teaching the top 10% of teachers impart three times as much learning to their pupils as the worst 10% do. Another suggests that, if black pupils were taught by the best quarter of teachers, the gap between their achievement and that of white pupils would disappear.

NOTES：

1、stellar a.恒星的；(infml)优秀的，精彩的（excellent）

2、impart v.(~ sth to sb)通知，透露，传授（to pass information, knowledge, ect. to other people）

忘掉精致的校服和小班教学吧，高分和杰出学生的秘诀在于教师。美国的一项研究发现，单单一年教学时间里，排名前10%的顶尖教师所教授的内容是后10%的最差教师教授内容的三倍。另一项调查显示，如果黑人学生由最好的老师教授，那么他们与白人学生之间的成就差距就会消失。

But efforts to ensure that every teacher can teach are hobbled by the tenacious myth that good teachers are born, not made. Classroom heroes like Robin Williams in “Dead Poets Society” or Michelle Pfeiffer in “Dangerous Minds” are endowed with exceptional, innate inspirational powers. Government policies, which often start from the same assumption, seek to raise teaching standards by attracting high-flying graduates to join the profession and prodding bad teachers to leave. Teachers’ unions, meanwhile, insist that if only their members were set free from central diktat, excellence would follow.

NOTES：

1、hobble v.蹒跚，跛行；(~ sth)阻止，妨碍

2、tenacious /t??ne???s/ a.(fml)坚毅的，顽强的

3、myth n.神话，神话故事

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