教育的根本是學(xué)會(huì)思考，教育的目的是培養(yǎng)一個(gè)人的綜合能力，給予孩子們更多可能性的思維方式的方法和方向，為未來(lái)而學(xué)。

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.

這是一堂趣味無(wú)窮的創(chuàng)新課堂，英語(yǔ)閱讀課與音樂課的完美融合，在學(xué)習(xí)中培養(yǎng)學(xué)生出色的想象力、創(chuàng)造力、寫作能力、審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：指的是與我們生活的世界、生活方式息息相關(guān)的，生動(dòng)靈活、具有適應(yīng)性且積極主動(dòng)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.

“讓孩子站在未來(lái)中央”，不僅僅是一句口號(hào)。作為VBS老師，要把它切切實(shí)實(shí)落實(shí)到每一節(jié)課堂。

"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，讓我們一起來(lái)看看初中部ESL的創(chuàng)意課堂。

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

初中ESL外教Samer的敘述：

《Fausto之歌》

作為一個(gè)音樂愛好者以及一位有創(chuàng)造力的教師，我想在VBS實(shí)施一個(gè)非常有趣味性，同時(shí)又很酷的偉大原著英語(yǔ)閱讀課程。我們現(xiàn)階段正在讀的故事——《沒有吉他的藍(lán)調(diào)音樂》講述的是一個(gè)男孩由于沒有足夠的錢購(gòu)買吉他，經(jīng)歷了艱難的關(guān)于誠(chéng)信方面的抉擇，努力去賺取自己需要的錢，并追求他組建樂隊(duì)成為音樂人的夢(mèng)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.

在故事的結(jié)尾，這位叫Fausto的男孩學(xué)會(huì)了彈吉他。我想要七年級(jí)學(xué)生們?cè)O(shè)想一下，這是故事發(fā)生后的很多年，F(xiàn)austo要寫下這個(gè)故事 。七年級(jí)的學(xué)生們“深入”到故事中，想象他們是Fausto，一個(gè)沒有錢的孩子較終得到了一把吉他去追求他的夢(mèng)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.

我們與才華橫溢的音樂老師Ross一起，合作開展了一個(gè)偉大的計(jì)劃，將學(xué)生分配到每一個(gè)小組中，討論Fausto生命中某一個(gè)事件的感受，以及他如何用歌詞和音樂來(lái)表達(dá)。每個(gè)小組分別深入了解不同的重要事件，根據(jù)特定的段落寫一首歌。在VBS，這個(gè)計(jì)劃為學(xué)生提供了共同合作、交流、討論、整理自己的思路并落實(shí)到寫作上。

 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.

這是一堂充滿創(chuàng)意又充分調(diào)動(dòng)學(xué)生學(xué)習(xí)和思考熱情的課，完全打破了普通課程的授課方式，給中外教深刻的啟發(fā)。在萬(wàn)雙，我們倡導(dǎo)為學(xué)生提供能夠適應(yīng)終身發(fā)展和社會(huì)發(fā)展需要的必備品格和關(guān)鍵能力的實(shí)踐平臺(tái)，使學(xué)生綜合運(yùn)用所學(xué)的知識(shí)解決實(shí)際問(wèn)題。在萬(wàn)雙，這樣的探索和實(shí)踐還在繼續(xù)。

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.