万双网讯   教育的根本是学会思考，教育的目的是培养一个人的综合能力，给予孩子们更多可能性的思维方式的方法和方向，为未来而学。

The essence of education is to learn to think, the purpose of education is to cultivate a person's comprehensive abilities, to give children more possibilities of the way of thinking methods and directions, to learn for the future.

这是一堂趣味无穷的创新课堂，英语阅读课与音乐课的完美融合，在学习中培养学生出色的想象力、创造力、写作能力、审美情趣及全局性理解力。

This is an interesting and innovative classroom, the perfect blend of English reading class and music class, in the study to cultivate students ' excellent imagination, creativities, writing abilities, aesthetic taste and overall understanding.

全局性理解：指的是与我们生活的世界、生活方式息息相关的，生动灵活、具有适应性且积极主动的理解。

Overall understanding: Refers to the world we live in, the way of life is closely related, vivid and flexible, adaptable and proactive understanding.

“让孩子站在未来中央”，不仅仅是一句口号。作为VBS老师，要把它切切实实落实到每一节课堂。

"Let the child stand in the middle of the future.", not only a slogan, as a VBS teacher, we are putting it into practice in every section of the classroom.

今天，让我们一起来看看初中部ESL的创意课堂。

Today, let's share the creative classroom of ESL in junior high school.

初中ESL外教Samer的叙述：

《Fausto之歌》

作为一个音乐爱好者以及一位有创造力的教师，我想在VBS实施一个非常有趣味性，同时又很酷的伟大原著英语阅读课程。我们现阶段正在读的故事——《没有吉他的蓝调音乐》讲述的是一个男孩由于没有足够的钱购买吉他，经历了艰难的关于诚信方面的抉择，努力去赚取自己需要的钱，并追求他组建乐队成为音乐人的梦想。

As a music lover and creative individual, I wanted to bring a fun and "cool" aspect to the Great Books English Curriculum that is implemented here at VBS. Our current story " The No- Guitar Blues " is about a boy who doesn't have enough money to buy a guitar to pursue his dream of being a musician in his own band, as he goes through a tough decision regarding integrity to get the money he needs.

在故事的结尾，这位叫Fausto的男孩学会了弹吉他。我想要七年级学生们设想一下，这是故事发生后的很多年，Fausto要写下这个故事 。七年级的学生们“深入”到故事中，想象他们是Fausto，一个没有钱的孩子最终得到了一把吉他去追求他的梦想。

At the end of the story, the boy whose name is Fausto learns how to play this guitar. I wanted students to imagine that it is several years after the story's end and that Fausto is writing a song about what happened. The Grade 7 students "dive deep" into the story and imagine that they are Fausto, the kid with no money who eventually got a guitar to pursue his dream.

我们与才华横溢的音乐老师Ross一起，合作开展了一个伟大的计划，将学生分配到每一个小组中，讨论Fausto生命中某一个事件的感受，以及他如何用歌词和音乐来表达。每个小组分别深入了解不同的重要事件，根据特定的段落写一首歌。在VBS，这个计划为学生提供了共同合作、交流、讨论、整理自己的思路并落实到写作上。

 Coming together with the talented music teacher "Ross", we collaborated on a great project to assign each student in a group to discuss how Fausto felt about an event in the story and how he might express it with lyrics and music . Each of the groups were assigned different important events in the story to write a song to based on a specific passage. This project allows students to learn how to work together, communicate and generate ideas in a creative process here at VBS.

这是一堂充满创意又充分调动学生学习和思考热情的课，完全打破了普通课程的授课方式，给中外教深刻的启发。在万双，我们倡导为学生提供能够适应终身发展和社会发展需要的必备品格和关键能力的实践平台，使学生综合运用所学的知识解决实际问题。在万双，这样的探索和实践还在继续。

This is a lessson  of a lot of creation and full mobilization of students to allow them learn and think with enthusiasms. Completely broke the general curriculum of the teaching methods. This is alos a lesson to povide both the Chinese and foreign teachers  profound teaching inspiration. At VBS, we advocate providing a practical platform for students to be able to adapt to their lifelong development and social development needs, so that students can use the knowledge they have learned to solve practical problems. Here at our school, such exploration and practice continues.

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