瑞得福國際學校開學典禮上的演講丨校長Leland Anderson:One by One, Line

One by One, Line by Line

One by One, Line by Line

瑞得福國際學校校長Leland Anderson&學生翻譯邱琪Emily

Welcome back, students, parents, and teachers! It's wonderful to see your smiling faces again. The school seems to come alive when you are here. We look forward to another great year!

Today, I want to share with you three concepts that I hope all RDF students and teachers will embrace this year.

First, when you change your role, you change your behavior.

Some of you are students and some of you are teachers. But this year, I hope that you will all see yourselves as teachers AND learners. Learn as much as you can and teach as much as you can. Learn Chinese and English, and teach Chinese and English—everywhere.

Imagine teachers and students sitting together helping each other to become bilingual.

This happened to me this summer. I spent hours in the canteen with the school staff practicing Chinese. My Chinese vocabulary improved. I still have a long way to go. So I'll make you a deal. You teach me Chinese, and I will teach you English! How does that sound?

By the end of the school year, my Chinese and your English will improve a lot. Okay?

Second, people learn “l(fā)ine by line.”

Line by line means learning one concept at a time. Each class will require you to grapple with a concept that can be stated in a simple sentence. Most concepts will be short and memorable. You should learn new concepts every day in each class. During the year, you will learn over 1,000 simple concepts. I hope many of you will learn much, much, more. These simple statements will give you tremendous new knowledge, skill, and wisdom.

Third, we learn “one by one.”

True, we can learn in large classroom lectures. But more lessons come when we speak with others “one by one.” One by one conversation.

In review, consider yourselves, teacher and learners, learn line by line, and learn one conversation at a time.

Now, a few announcements:

This year we have a planner and student handbook for each of you students. Use it to manage your time and track your assignments. We expect you to use it. It includes a list of all the rules that we expect you to follow. Please take care of this book.

We hope you enjoy these changes.

Additionally, we are continuing the house system. You will continue earning points for your house by teaching language everywhere and doing good work. You will learn more about this soon.

Finally, I remind you that by attending RDF International School, you are committing to follow an honor code that expects you to be kind, to respect your peers and teachers, to do your coursework, and to maintain appropriate relationships. Try to never do or say anything that would bring shame you or your family. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and move on. There is so much to learn this year. Let’s focus on learning, and let’s all be friendly and kind.

同學們，家長們，老師們，歡迎回來!能夠再次看到你們的笑臉真是太好了。學校因你們而重新變得生機勃勃。我們都期待著又一個美好的一年!

今天，我想與大家分享三個觀念，希望今年瑞得福的所有學生和老師都能去理解和接受它們。

首先，當你改變了你的身份，你的行為也會隨之改變。

你們當中有的是學生，有的是老師。但是今年我希望你們可以把自己既當作老師也當做學生。盡可能去學，也盡可能去教。隨時隨地學習并教授中文和英文。

想象一下老師和學生坐在一起互相幫助學習，然后成為能夠通曉兩種語言的人。

我在這個夏天就是這樣做的。那段時間我花了幾個小時在餐廳里，和各位同事練習中文。我的中文詞匯量因此提高了不少，但是我仍然需要學習很多。所以不如我們來做個君子之約——你教我中文，我教你英文。如何?

到了這個學年結(jié)束時，我的中文和你的英文都會有所提高，對吧?

第二點，人們都是一步一步地去學習的。

這意味著一次學習一個概念。每個課程都會要求你去努力學習一個能用一句話闡明的概念。大多數(shù)概念都比較簡短并且容易記住。你每天應該都會從各個課程中學習到新的概念。一年下來，你將會學習超過一千個基本概念。我希望你們中的許多人能學習到更多。這些簡單的概念將會給你們帶來巨大的新知識，新技能以及智慧。

第三點，我們一步一個腳印地學習。

沒錯，我們可以在大課堂中學習。但是，當我們與他人一對一交談溝通時，我們能掌握更多不同的知識。

總結(jié)而言，我們把自己視作教授者同時也是學習者，一步一步地去學習，一次專注一個內(nèi)容。

現(xiàn)在，我來發(fā)布幾個通知：

今年我們?yōu)槊恳晃粚W生準備了一個學生手冊。用這個手冊去管理好你的時間和跟蹤你的作業(yè)。我們希望你們?nèi)ナ褂盟?。這里面包括了一系列我們希望你們能夠遵守的原則。請妥善保管好這個手冊。

我們希望你們會喜歡這些變化。

此外，我們將會繼續(xù)瑞得福的House系統(tǒng)。你們將通過教授語言和努力學習來為你所在的House贏得分數(shù)。之后我們會告訴大家更多的細節(jié)。

最后，我想提醒一下各位，加入到瑞得福國際學校，你們就有義務遵循榮譽準則。我們期望你們可以友善待人，尊敬師長，按時完成課業(yè)，并保持恰當?shù)哪信P(guān)系。盡力不去做或說任何對不起自己或者家庭的事情。當你犯了錯誤，承認它，改正它，然后繼續(xù)前行。這一年有太多要去學習的了。讓我們專注于學習，讓我們一起友善待人。