Alvin Irby: How to inspire every child to be a lifelong reader
アルヴィン・アービー: 子ども達が生涯の読書家になるために
Whether speaking to barbers about early literacy, entertaining strangers at comedy clubs, or reading to kindergarteners at a local school, TED Resident Alvin Irby endeavors to make learning relevant and engaging. Full bio
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to ensure I had good reading skills.
全力を尽くしました
reading lessons at our kitchen table
読書のレッスンを受けていました
didn't exactly inspire a love of reading.
本を好きにはなれませんでした
read short stories and did spelling tests.
短編小説とスペルのテストで
to be switched into another class.
私は他のクラスへの変更を願い出て
I joined advanced English.
上級英語クラスに移りました
two book reports that semester.
そのレポートを書きました
between these two English classes
内容にも厳しさにも違いがあり
こんな疑問が口をつきました
white people come from?"
どこから来たんだ?」
70 percent black and Latino,
黒人かラテン・アメリカ系ですが
had white students everywhere.
with institutionalized racism
個人的に遭遇して
with reading forever.
on a school, a teacher or curriculum
カリキュラムは教えてくれない
than being intellectual,
むしろ反乱者として
other people to dictate
I had stumbled upon a key
思いがけず子ども達の読書を
from one reading level to another,
他のレベルへと移行させたり
to memorize lists of unfamiliar words,
暗記させたりするのではなく
this question:
to identify as readers?
自覚を持つよう奮起させられるのか?
I taught in the Bronx,
聡明な1年生で
how identity shapes learning.
学びを形作るか 私の理解を助けてくれました
I walk up to DeSean, and I say,
デショーンに近づき こう言いました
I'm a math genius!"
数学の天才さ!」
to read," he would say.
彼はそう言いました
who remain trapped in illiteracy.
黒人の子どもがたくさんいます
Department of Education,
of black male fourth graders
85パーセント以上は
to reading children face,
educators need to be.
能力が必要です
for the past eight years,
お笑い芸人アルバイトの経験から
of cultural competency,
to know or be able to do
できるようになってほしいことを
that they find relevant and engaging.
置き換える能力だと定義します
I assess an audience.
私は聴衆を見渡し判断します
professional, conservative?
would generate the most laughter.
I could tell bar jokes.
バージョークは使えますが
reading experiences for children
子ども達に経験させている読書は
of telling bar jokes in a church.
why so many children don't read.
読書をしないと不思議がります
パウロ・フレイレは
should be two-way.
双方向の関係であると信じていました
as empty buckets to be filled with facts
空のバケツのようにではなく
and school policies
the individual learning needs,
子供の学習ニーズや興味
promoted to black boys
civil rights and biographies.
深刻なトピックばかりです
in the United States are black males.
2パーセント未満で
are raised by single mothers.
who have never seen a black man reading.
本当に見たことがないのです
encourage him to read.
励まされたこともありません
what social cues are present
社会的きっかけがあれば
a young black boy to conclude
something he should do?
立ち上げました
非営利組織で
reading spaces in barber shops.
理髪店に設置します
identify as readers.
自覚を促すのです
once or twice a month.
月に一度か二度 理髪店に行きます
more than they see their fathers.
理髪店に行く子もいます
to a male-centered space
男性中心の空間を結び付け
and boys' early reading experiences.
少年の早期読書経験に巻き込みます
読書プログラムは
recommended by black boys.
人気リストを使用します
that they actually want to read.
キッズ・アンド・ファミリーレポート」によると
children look for when choosing a book
black boys and other children to read
黒人男子や他の子ども達の
relevant male reading models
早期の読解力達成に
that adults love so much
like "Gross Greg".
のような気持ち悪い本と取り替えます
Greg calls them delicious little sugars."
グレッグは美味しい砂糖菓子というよ」
気持ち悪いという反応
and desperately need more of that.
もっと与えられるべきです
that plague American education
野蛮な不平等を廃止するには
もっと読書の機会を与え
to say three words:
激励しなければなりません
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Alvin Irby - Educator, comedian, social entrepreneur, authorWhether speaking to barbers about early literacy, entertaining strangers at comedy clubs, or reading to kindergarteners at a local school, TED Resident Alvin Irby endeavors to make learning relevant and engaging.
Why you should listen
Alvin Irby is a former kindergarten teacher turned social entrepreneur. He is founder and chief reading inspirer at Barbershop Books, a nonprofit organization that creates child-friendly reading spaces in barbershops and provides early literacy training to barbers. His work connecting reading to male-centered spaces and involving men in boys’ early reading experiences earned him the National Book Foundation's 2017 Innovations in Reading Prize.
As a cultural competency specialist, Irby trains educators and administrators to translate learning objectives for children or adults into relevant and engaging communication and experiences. Irby's nationally recognized keynotes and workshops excavate his eclectic professional and personal life to better understand and address one of American education’s greatest challenges - cultivating children’s intrinsic motivation to read.
Irby's debut children’s book, Gross Greg, combines his passion for early literacy and comedy; it is a laugh-out-loud story that captures the hilariously gross behavior of kids everywhere. His clever social commentary and astute observations shine through in his 2012 comedy album They Know Too Much. One of the highlights of Irby's comedy career was being selected as a 2015 StandUp NBC national finalist and performing at the legendary Hollywood Improv in Los Angeles, CA.
Irby holds a Masters in Childhood Education from the Bank Street Graduate School of Education, a Masters in Public Administration from the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University, and a Bachelors in Sociology from Grinnell College.
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