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Marva Collins: Kids Never Fail
一、Learning Aims：
To learn about Marva Collins and her ideas.
To develop the ability to deal with a biography(传记), the ability to think deeply and the ability to write a brief introduction of someone.
To learn Marva Collins’ great qualities and meet the challenges in our daily life actively.
二、The important and difficult points:
1. To learn from Marva Collins and her ideas.
2. How to get the deep ideas of this passage.
三、Teaching process:
Step 1 Enjoy a video, a clip of the film, The Marva Collins Story.
In the video, what impressed you most
Step 2 Read the passage quickly and get the main idea.
Q1. How many parts is the passage divided
Q2. Add a subtitle to the last part.
Q3. The passage introduces Collins _______.
in chronological order/by time order
by giving examples
by explaining Collins’ method
by introducing Collins’ honor
Step 3 Read deeply
Read part1 and answer the following questions.
(1). Why did she and her sister have to be excellent
(2).From paragraph1, what kind of society can we infer Marva Collins lived in
2. Read part2 and answer the following questions.
(1).What’s the turning point of her life
Why did she open her own school
What else helped her open the school
(2).With the mention of Abraham Lincoln and Kevin Ross, Collins intends to __________.
3. Read part3 and answer the following questions.
(1).What's her teaching method
(2).From Collins’ words, what was her attitude to her teaching method
A. unsure B. confident
C. passive D. indifferent
(3) Focus on the title.
The title “Kids Never Fail”, in other words, means Kids ___________.
(4) Further thinking (Discussion)
What do you think of her teaching method
4. Read part4 and answer the following questions.
(1). How does the writer evaluate (评价) Marva Collins (Summarize in two or three sentences.)
(2).From her son Patrick’ words, Collins was such a person who ____________.
Step 4 Summarize the factors of Marva Collins’ success.
Internal factors:
External factors:
Step 5Writing
(1).In real life, who is your model
(2).Give a brief introduction of your model.
(3).Why do you like her/him
(4).What can you learn from your model
Step 6 Homework
Read Marva Collins’ book, Marva Collins’ Way.Marva Collins: Kids Never Fail
“Kids don’t fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.” –Marva Collins
Marva Collins is a great school founder and educator. Her methods have changed the lives of thousands of students.
Background
Marva Collins, called Marva Knight in early years, was born on August 31,1936 in Monroeville, Alabama. She was very familiar with the educational inadequacies(不足)in black schools also noticed that African-American students didn’t have so many educational resources as white students. Libraries were for whites only, and many black schools lacked books or even teaching aids.
But Collins’s father Henry Knight, a successful businessman, had high standards for Collins and her younger sister-and even higher expectations of them in the classroom. “We were expected to be excellent,” Collins once recalled. We didn't have a choice.”
Collins went to Clark College in Atlanta, Georgia, where she studied secretarial(文秘的)skills. After two years of teaching in her home state, she moved north to Chicago, where she met Clarence Collins. The couple later married and had three children, Eric, Patrick and Cynthia.
Her Own School
In Chicago, Collins worked as a substitute teacher (代课老师) for nearly fourteen years. As an educator and a parent of children who were attending high-end(高端的) private schools, what she saw astonished her. She became disappointed with the teaching methods in public schools. She even felt that some children were receiving low levels of learning. There was too much playing yet too little studying.
So she used $5,000 of her own to open the Westside Preparatory School in the second floor of her home in Chicago.
Only a few students attended her school at first. Collins created it for the purpose of teaching low income black children, so she made it clear that her classroom was openly child who had been rejected(曾被拒绝) by the bigger school systems, especially those who had been diagnosed(诊断) with impossible- to-overcome disabilities.
Collins said she had the data to prove that students were able to overcome difficulties of learning via her teaching methods.
“If Abraham Lincoln were in public schools today, he would probably be in a learning disability program. Lincoln didn’t learn to read until age 14. No one has the right to decide whether a child is able to receive education or now, Collins told Ebony magazine. Parents, particularly black parents, have to be willing to make efforts to make sure their children are educated properly.” Collins’ school plan was successful. Every child in her school got higher score than before.
At home her father gave her advice, which helped her build confidence and gave her sense of responsibility.
In 1982, Kevin Ross, a 23-year-old Creighton University basketball player, got to his last year of college, but he couldn’t read. Thus he would not be able to pass the final test. Someone in Creighton University advised Ross to attend the Westside Preparatory School. Collins taught him
in person. Ross learned how to read and graduated in May 1983. After that, when Ross had serious troubles in study, he would turn to Collins for help.
The Collins Method
Collins educational idea was later known as The Collins Method. It focuses on phonics(自然拼读), maths, reading, English and the classics. Homer, Plato, Geoffrey Chaucer (乔叟) and Leo Tolstoy (列夫.托尔斯泰) were all part of her reading list. “People ask me ‘How do you get the children to memorize The Canterbury Tales in Old English " Collins said. “1 never thought that they couldn't learn it. Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail, The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.”
Not surprisingly, Collins and her school became a national story. Time and Newsweek came to visit her, so did 60 Minute and Good Morning America In 1982. her life and the founding of the school were turned into a television movie that starred(由……担任主演) Cicely Tyson and Morgan Freeman. Tyson and Freeman even stayed with the Collins family for some time to prepare for the movie
By 1991, Mm Collins had trained 1.000 teachers each year on her method of teaching children with a love of learning and an ability to think through classics. During that time, the school received about 6,000 visitors a year. All these visitors wanted to know how Collins changed children who were once thought hopeless into good learners.
As it grew, Collins school out of her home and to a new location in southern Chicago. What’s more, other schools with her name contained have opened in Ohio and Florida. Collins’ students are now doctors, lawyers and educators.
_____________
By the mid-1990s, Collins had become a famous speaker, earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for her speeches. Much of the money was used in the development of her school. Collins also wrote several books, and was given awards such as the Jefferson Award, the Humanitarian Award for Excellence, as well as honorary doctorates(名誉博士学位) from several colleges. In 2004, President Bush honored her with the National Humanities Medal.
Although Collins’ own school was closed in 2008 because of financial problems, schools in America continue to use her teaching method, including Joshua Academy in Evansville, where her son Patrick worked as a professor.
Outside of her educational work, Collins enjoyed reading books on The New York Times bestseller list. “The cover of every book was broken,” Patrick Collins said. “She would sit with a book rather than watch TV”. .
Collins died of natural causes on June 24, 2015 in South Carolina. “She gave it her best,” said Patrick. With thousands of students around the country, Collins impact(影响) on the American school system, and the children she helped, continues.

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