The Real Lesson
 
发布时间：2008-07-23 来源：翻译中国 发布者：上海翻译公司


By Ruth Reis Jarvis, M.A., C.C.C.

As a speech-language pathologist, I spent many years teaching students in a classroom setting. These students had such significant speech and language impairments in their native language that they required a smaller class size and instruction in classroom curriculum to be taught by someone with a background in the development of language.

While rewarding, at times this job could be exhausting. Imagine working all day with people who have difficulty getting their point across and understanding your point. These students needed instruction in the language that was to be used in the lesson before the lesson could ever be taught. Many days I was filled with frustration for I never got to the "real" lesson. I never got to the subtraction lesson. I was too busy teaching what the words "more," "less," "take away" and "equal" meant to students that did not naturally have these words in their everyday vocabulary. The lessons in my lesson plan book, the "real" lessons for the day, never seemed to take form.

On the Wednesday before Thanksgiving break, I got a "real" lesson from one of my students. I was busy trying to teach the "real" meaning behind the holiday of Thanksgiving. This is a holiday about feelings and emotions. Feeling and emotion words are difficult for language-impaired students. These words fall into a gray category. They are abstract. They are not simple to explain. Yet we never really think about having to teach a child what "happy," "sad," "exhausted" or "thankful" really means.

On this particular day, I was experiencing all of these emotions: happy, that a four-day weekend was coming, sad that my "real" lesson about Thanksgiving was getting lost in a sea of unexplained words, exhausted from the cooking and preparing we had done all week for our big classroom Thanksgiving feast, and thankful it would all be over in thirty minutes when the 2:30 bell rang.
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