Now teachers are ordered to smile at their pupils - PAU inglés 2010

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Smiling young female teacherA secondary school has ordered teachers to welcome children with a smile at the start of every lesson as part of a drive to hand more power to pupils. Staff have also been told to ensure they are not boring students by setting work that is too hard.
The move is the latest example of a Government initiative to give pupils a major say in many aspects of their schooling, but some critics say this is putting children in charge. Yesterday the Mail revealed that 20 students at a Kent secondary school were given iPhones to provide instant feedback of teachers to senior staff. In another incident, a teacher being interviewed for a job by a student panel was asked to sing the Michael Jackson song ‘Bad’. She failed to get the job after refusing. Pupils on another interview panel voted in favour of a female candidate because she was the ‘prettiest’, although she was not hired.
Schools Secretary Ed Balls admitted the approach used by some schools was ‘completely wrong’, ‘absurd’ and ‘ridiculous’. ‘The people who are in charge are the head teachers, the governors and the teachers,’ he said. ‘The idea that you would give out iPhones to secretly spy on teachers, that would be in my view, completely wrong’. ‘Any head teacher doing that needs to look hard at themselves and consider the way in which they are doing things’.
But far from dismissing the practice, he added: ‘Some schools do ask teachers to get a report from the children about how lessons are going’.
Daily Mail, Tuesday, April 6th, 2010, p. 10

RESPUESTAS 

READING COMPREHENSION

I. Answer the following questions using your own words but taking into account the information in the text.
  • a. What measures have teachers been forced to take in secondary schools? PAR. 1
  • b. Why have mobile phones been used in some schools? PAR. 3

II. Are the following statements true (T) or false (F)? Identify the part of the text that supports your answer by copying the exact passage on the answer sheet.
a. Teachers have been told not to assign homework.
b. In Kent, iPhones were given to every student.
c. Some schools want their students to express their opinion about their classes.

III. Find a synonym for each of the four words below from these six options:
       staff    schooling     feedback     incident     panel     governors

IV. Choose a, b, or c, in each question below. Only one choice is correct.
1. A teacher was asked to sing ‘Bad’...
2. Ed Balls stated that...
3. Some schools want students to...

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2 comentarios:

  1. La respuesta 2c no es correcta. Sí es verdadera pero la justificación es errónea. revisadla. Un saludo

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  2. Ey anónim@, muchas gracias por tu comentario.
    Apreciamos mucho tu colaboración en Test-it, especialmente si es para subsanar cualquier tipo de error.

    En este caso, sin embargo, la respuesta no es incorrecta. Existen varias alusiones en el texto relacionadas con la participación del alumnado en la evaluación a los profesores tales como:

    *** "Yesterday the Mail revealed that 20 students at a Kent secondary school were given iPhones to provide instant feedback of TEACHERS to senior staff".

    *** "Pupils on another interview panel voted in favour of a female candidate because she was the ‘PRETTIEST’, although she was not hired".

    Pero la única oración en la que se especifica que los alumnos califican las CLASES impartidas por los profesores (Some schools want their students to express their opinion about THEIR CLASSES) es la indicada arriba:

    *** "Schools do ask teachers to GET A REPORT FROM the children about HOW LESSONS ARE GOING.
    En este caso son los chavales los que ponen nota a los profesores, mola no? ;P

    De cualquier modo nosotros también agradecemos que vosotros estéis atentos y nos puntuéis. Vuestro feed-back es realmente importante.

    Por cierto otros conceptos relacionados con el término REPORT en este contexto que pueden resultaros útiles son:
    *to get a good/bad report: sacar buenas/malas notas
    *school report: boletín de notas

    Y no olvides que tus comentarios son siempre bien recibidos en Test-it. Tú también nos lo pones a huevo =)

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