教育的根本是學(xué)會思考，教育的目的是培養(yǎng)一個人的綜合能力，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.

這是一堂趣味無窮的創(chuàng)新課堂，英語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，生動靈活、具有適應(yīng)性且積極主動的理解。

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

“讓孩子站在未來中央”，不僅僅是一句口號。作為VBS老師，要把它切切實實落實到每一節(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》

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

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)會了彈吉他。我想要七年級學(xué)生們設(shè)想一下，這是故事發(fā)生后的很多年，F(xiàn)austo要寫下這個故事 。七年級的學(xué)生們“深入”到故事中，想象他們是Fausto，一個沒有錢的孩子較終得到了一把吉他去追求他的夢想。

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，合作開展了一個偉大的計劃，將學(xué)生分配到每一個小組中，討論Fausto生命中某一個事件的感受，以及他如何用歌詞和音樂來表達。每個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，這個計劃為學(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)展和社會發(fā)展需要的必備品格和關(guān)鍵能力的實踐平臺，使學(xué)生綜合運用所學(xué)的知識解決實際問題。在萬雙，這樣的探索和實踐還在繼續(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.