（第８回）国際的な視野を子どもたちに持たせる

Teaching Children How to Think Internationally
国際的な視野を子どもたちに持たせる

こんにちは。
今日の話題は、小学校における国際教育についてです。多文化間の交流や協力に
ついてカリキュラムが開発され、世界中の学校で取り組みが始まっているようで
す。

それでは、単語から
[Words]
primary school 小学校
terrorism テロリズム
multi-cooperational activity 複数の協力活動
mindedness 考え方
encourage 促す
fantastically すばらしく
individually 個々人で
similarity 類似点
maneuver 操縦する


それでは、放送を聞いてみましょう。

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report.

The International Primary Curriculum is an idea that began in Britain
eight years ago. Today this curriculum is taught in more than one
thousand primary schools in fifty-eight countries, including the United
States.

Educator Martin Skelton co-wrote the International Primary Curriculum,
or IPC. He says for children to learn and succeed, they need a program
that permits them to learn individually.

MARTIN SKELTON: "Our view is the teachers should be thinking about their
kids in their class and why they are not learning and trying to work out
what they are going to be doing tomorrow to help individual kids learn
much better."

He says the idea with the curriculum is to help today's children become
good citizens of the world and twenty-first century leaders.

MARTIN SKELTON: "Most world problems are going to be solved
internationally now. I mean no single country is going to solve the
environment or terrorism. It's a multi-cooperational activity."

Mr. Skelton says the curriculum has activities built around the
development of "international mindedness" starting from the age of five.

MARTIN SKELTON: "We encourage the kids to make links with schools in
other countries, and then of course things like Skype now make that
fantastically easy to do."

The British American School of Los Angeles is one of a few American
private schools that teach the International Primary Curriculum. Second
grade teacher Alison Kerr says the main goal is to engage children in
the learning process. This term, for example, her class is learning
about people important in history.

ALLISON KERR: "I got the children to come in secret and dress up with
several clues of a famous person. They had to research and bring us ten
written clues and the rest of the class had to guess who these
significant people were. So the children do not simply just do the same
worksheet type of format every single time."

The British School in Boston held a fair for students and parents called
Around the World in a Day. Emma Northey, head of primary learning at the
school, says fifty-one nationalities were represented. She described one
activity designed to teach about similarities between different cultures.

EMMA NORTHEY: "The children were each given a passport. They basically
knew that they were going around the world in a day and we said to them
'You have to come back with two similarities that you had seen between
the different cultures.' Even the three-year-olds came back to me saying
'Gosh, you know everybody writes. Some people write going down. Some
people write from left to right, some from right to left.'"

Another educator, Kate Foy of the British School in Washington, says the
teacher's role is to enable students to discover for themselves.

KATE FOY: "And you kind of have to sit back a little bit. You have to
make sure you're asking the right questions. You maneuver yourself
around the classroom and enable the children to learn as opposed to
telling them."

And that's the VOA Special English Education Report. Tell us if you have
experience with the International Primary Curriculum and what you think
of it. Share your comments at voaspecialenglish.com or on Facebook and
Twitter at VOA Learning English. You can also find captioned videos of
our reports at the VOA Learning English channel on YouTube. I'm Steve
Ember.


どうでしたか。
それでは、記事に関しての質問です。
(Q.1) この国際教育カリキュラムはどこで始まりましたか。
(Q.2) この国際教育カリキュラムはいつ始まりましたか。
(Q.3) ケイト・フェイさんは先生の役割について何と言っていますか。

(A.1) イギリスで始まりました。
(A.2) ８年前に始まりました。
(A.3) 生徒が自らの力で探求していけるようにすること。


(Q.1) Where did The International Primary Curriculum begin?
(Q.2) When did the curriculum begin?
(Q.3) What does Kate Foy think about the teacher's role?

(A.1) The International Primary Curriculum began in Britain.
(A.2) Eight years ago.
(A.3) The teacher's role is to enable students to discover for themselves.

いかがでしたでしょうか。
スカイプなど新しい技術によって、こうした国際教育がずっと取り組みやすくなっ
ています。日本でも広く普及するといいですね。

それでは。
また次回。
See you next time.