心路历程--时间

This is our seventh column. Itis a delight to be able to sharethoughts with you. Let me begin with     

心路历程--世世代代

Dear Friends, Every one of us was young at some time inthe past.Even our planet was young once-billionsof years ago.Some of you are still young.The rest of uslook back to our youth with mixed feelings.We generallyhad better health and more energy than we have atpresent.But,we did not have the life experiences that wehave gathered over the years.     

心路历程--新年

Dear Friends, Your editor in China, Richard, asked me to write an article about the New Year in America. In my columns I deliberately (故意地) avoid writing about life in America. This is for travel a-gents or professional politicians or journalists to do. Instead I prefer to write about matters of universal concern. My columns have been on topics such as life and death, humor, poetry, animals, time, education, peace, and aging. These subjects have resulted in a popular response from our Chinese     

心路历程--食物

Dear Friends, This column is devoted to food.This is one of the topics that we think aboutand talk about and write about and worry about the most.It takes up much timeand space in all of our lives.It is one of the greatest sources of human enjoymentand one of the greatest sources of human anxiety. Eating is one of our fondest pleasures.It is a necessity of nature.Food enables us to survive.Everyone eats,every person,every animal,even plants must absorb food.An automobile cannot run without fuel,and human beings cannot live without food.In primitive soci     

心路历程--逝

We are what survives of us.Dear Friends, My past columns have concerned various aspects of life. This is because life is common to all of us. Life is what we experience every minute of every day. It may be hard for some to accept, but there is something else that we all share in common regardless(不管,不顾)of where we live or what we believe. Each of us is perishable(容易腐烂的).Our lives willterminate(停止,终结)in dying.     

心路历程--叛逆

Dear Friends,Some of our previous columns have been on serious themes. We havedelved into subjects like Love and Death and Ambition and Success. This ispretty heavy stuff. Now, it is time to let our imagination flow into fantasy.In America and in other western nations, every Chinese restaurant serves"fortune cookies" at the end of each meal. Inside each of these cookies is a small slipof paper with a brief message. It is customary for the diners to read their "fortunes"     

心路历程--筷子

Dear Friends, Our past columns have been filled with a variety of topics.They have included es—says,proverbs,jokes,and even a few of my poems.Now it is time for all original shortstory written especially for you in this magazine.I hope you enjoy reading it as much as Ienjoyed writing it.     

心路历程--帽子

Dear Friends, Writing columns for Overseas English is one of my greatest plea-Sures.Most of my columns are serious.This is because life is serious.Butlife is also whimsical(反复无常的,古怪的).Because it is whimsical and weneed to laugh,it is fun to write with a lighter touch.We usually write what we liketo read.This little story is an example of poking fun at ourselves.     

Planning Lessons

Jensen's“Lesson Planning”article serves as a guide for novice teachers who need to create formalized lesson plans.The article covers why,when,and how teachers plan lessons,as well as basic lesson plan principles and a lesson plan template.     

Violin Lessons

亲爱的同学们,本栏目选编了一系列妙趣横生的故事,其目的在于帮助你们提高英语阅读理解能力,增加词汇量,增进对西方幽默感的理解。每篇故事均附有生词表及阅读自测题,加油吧!     

拼写课

一个年轻人和他的双亲给一名医生上了一课,教他耐心和勇气的真正意义.     

Violin Lessons

亲爱的同学们，本栏目选编了一系列妙趣横生的故事，其目的在于帮助你们提高英语阅读理解能力，增加词汇量，增进对西方幽默感的理解。每篇故事均附有生词表及阅读自测题，加油吧!     

Lessons Learned

In the current context of standards-based reform and heightened accountability for school performance, state education agencies (SEAs) have an important, but not yet well-articulated, role to play in local school improvement efforts. This article starts to articulate such a role by examining the variety of approaches and strategies used by 7 SEAs to support schools and districts applying for and ultimately implementing the federal Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) program. Building from the assertion that SEAs can and do make choices about how to best implement federal programs, we explore the choices that the studied SEAs have made around (a) the integration of the CSR program with other state and federal initiatives, (b) the different levels of funding provided to schools, (c) the continuity of SEA leadership around CSR, and (d) the variety of support strategies provided to participating schools. Although these SEAs have supported CSR in different ways, we conclude that the most important state strategy for leveraging systemic advantage from CSR involves the extent to which SEA staff have stayed with the program and thus gained in-depth knowledge of the program necessary to improve CSR in their states.     

说课

真正的备课是琢磨如何设计合适的问题以及如何通过对这些问题的分析寻找解决问题的方案进而提出恰当的概念、发现有规律性的东西并大胆做出猜测.课本是不会教我们怎么做的,需要我们自己去思考.