Chapter 119 Open Class
If I didn't know that she was drinking cold medicine, and saw her holding the kettle with both hands and sipping it slowly, I would have thought she was drinking sweet milk tea!
"Will it be very bitter?" Fang Wei asked curiously.
"No...it's a little sweet." Liu Zhiyi said honestly.
Seeing Fang Wei eagerly watching her drink the medicine, the girl felt a little embarrassed and subconsciously handed the kettle in front of him: "Would you like to drink some?"
"..."
Well, it seems that he is confused due to illness, and his IQ has dropped by 50!
Seeing Fang Wei's strange look, Liu Zhiyi finally reacted and quickly took back the kettle, pretending nothing had happened...
She continued to sip.
I didn't lie to him, and it wasn't all a psychological effect. It really tasted a bit sweet...
……
No one can predict when you will catch a cold. Even the strongest people can catch a cold.
It is definitely uncomfortable. In fact, even after a few decades, medicine will be helpless against the most common cold. The so-called injections and medications can only relieve the symptoms caused by the cold.
As a self-limiting disease, it ultimately depends on one's own immune system to heal itself.
Fang Wei reached out and touched his forehead.
Liu Zhiyi, who was taking medicine, looked at him curiously.
Before she could say anything, Fang Wei stretched out his hand that had just touched her forehead. Under the girl's dazed gaze, he placed his warm palm on her smooth forehead.
His movements were natural and intimate. Liu Zhiyi remained calm but her heart beat faster.
As if a switch was triggered, the girl became motionless, with only her beautiful eyes wide open.
It is difficult to describe the feeling at this moment. Liu Zhiyi only felt an inexplicable warmth and peace of mind in his heart.
After a while, Fang Wei's hand finally moved away from her forehead.
"Fortunately, I don't have a fever." Fang Wei said.
"Oh……"
Liu Zhiyi remained numb. She continued to hold the kettle and drink the cold medicine in small sips.
It was not until his hand left her for a while that the girl's pretty face flushed...
Is it really true that you don’t have a fever?
She touched her face.
Hot...
……
Many students in the class had caught a cold, some serious and some minor. During the first two classes, the students were not in a good state of mind and were a little sleepy.
In addition, her aunt happened to be visiting, so Liu Zhiyi had a pretty serious cold. But she still forced herself not to fall asleep during class. As for how much she could hear in this state, no one knew. Only after class would she lie down on the table and take a short nap.
The third class was Chinese class, and also Wen Susu’s first open class.
Without any special preparation, as usual, she would come to the classroom early during the break before class, write and draw with chalk, and decorate the blackboard.
"Fang Wei, take a few classmates and go to the first floor and move twelve chairs over."
"Twelve? Are so many teachers here to attend the class?"
Fang was surprised. After all, there were only six or seven Chinese teachers in the whole school. Excluding those who also had to teach classes, almost all the Chinese teachers in the school came to listen to this open class. Even teachers who did not teach Chinese came to listen to the class, otherwise the twelve chairs would definitely not be needed.
"Yes, there will be an open class later, don't be nervous, just perform well as you normally would!"
"Mr. Wen, which text are we going to talk about later?"
"Pu Songling's "Wolf""
This is a classic classical Chinese article, telling the story of a butcher who encountered a wolf on his way home, was afraid of the wolf, fought against the wolf, and finally killed the wolf.
When Wen Susu teaches a new lesson, she always draws on the blackboard. After all, there is no such thing as PPT. Using concrete pictures to accompany the explanation of the text is not only more vivid and interesting, but also easier for students to understand.
This is her unique skill!
After all, Wen Susu is known as the best Chinese teacher among art teachers, and she has the best art skills among Chinese teachers. Other teachers cannot imitate her even if they really want to.
I still remember that in the first Chinese class, when Wen Susu was talking about the article "Spring", she drew the blackboard into a window surrounded by flowers in spring.
This Chinese class is about the article "Wolf".
The form of her paintings also changed. She used the method of cartoons to vividly express the four processes of "encountering wolves", "fearing wolves", "controlling wolves" and "killing wolves" in the plot of the article in the form of cartoons.
Wen Susu's painting skills are really solid. With just a few strokes, the images of the butcher and the wolf come to life on the blackboard.
This was also her first time drawing comics in class.
Many students in the class are avid fans of comics. When they saw Teacher Wen drawing comics, the atmosphere in the class suddenly became lively.
Especially Xu Cailing, she loves reading comics the most. At this moment, she didn't go with Fang Wei to move chairs, but stayed in the classroom, watching Teacher Wen draw comics.
When Fang Wei and his men moved the twelve chairs back, the class became even more lively.
In addition to the students in his own class, there were also some other teachers who came to listen to the class with notebooks and pens.
Some teachers were standing in the corridor, some were standing at the back of the classroom. Like the students in the class, they were all looking curiously at Wen Susu who was drawing cartoons on the podium.
Fang Wei placed the chairs in the empty spaces at the back of the classroom and invited the teachers who came to attend the class to sit down as if they were entertaining guests.
"Teacher, please sit down."
"Principal Wu? Are you here for class as well?"
Fang Wei was a little surprised. Some of the teachers who came to listen to the class looked familiar to him, while some were not. Some taught Chinese to the eighth and third grade students, while others taught other subjects. Among them were the four head teachers of Class 1, Class 3 and Class 4. He did not expect that Principal Wu, the vice-principal and grade director, was also here.
"Fang Wei. Haha, I remember you, number one in the grade."
Principal Wu smiled. He used to teach Chinese as well. Although he is no longer responsible for teaching, he was still very interested in Wen Susu's open class this time and came here specially to listen.
"Princess Wu, please take a seat."
"It's okay. I'll stand and watch."
There was certainly not enough space for twelve chairs at the back of the classroom, so the extra chairs had to be placed in the middle of the aisles of each group.
All teachers know that Wen Susu teaches both Chinese and art.
Seeing her drawing on the podium, many teachers who came to listen to the class were a little confused.
"Teacher Wen, isn't this an open Chinese class? Did I make a mistake? Is this an open art class?" a teacher asked curiously.
Without waiting for Wen Susu on the stage to explain, other students in the classroom helped out and said:
"It's Chinese class! Our teacher Wen always draws like this during Chinese class! What he draws are all the contents of today's lesson!"
"Today's lesson is 'Wolf'!"
Wow! This really opened the eyes of the teachers who came to listen to the lecture.
I thought the so-called open class was just a formality, where everyone gave each other face, and I didn't expect anything fancy to happen in the open class.
But I didn’t expect that Teacher Wen’s open class would be so interesting?
It's different! I have to listen carefully!
After Fang Wei had arranged the chairs, he returned to his seat. Liu Zhiyi was lying on the table taking a nap. After all, she had a cold and felt uncomfortable and sleepy, so she slept very soundly. The hustle and bustle outside did not wake her up.
If this were any other class, Fang Wei would probably just let her sleep for a while.
There was no other way at the moment, so I had to wake her up gently.
"I know what you mean, I know what you mean."
"……Well?"
After shaking her twice, Liu Zhiyi finally opened her hazy eyes.
Seeing that there were suddenly so many teachers in the class, and one of them was sitting next to Fang Wei, the girl immediately came to her senses.
"Are you okay? Are you feeling better?"
"It's okay... So many teachers?"
"Yes, it's an open class."
"I almost forgot..."
Liu Zhiyi rubbed her eyes and cheered herself up. Although her whole body ached, she still sat up straight.
……
The class bell rang.
Fang Wei was the first to stand up.
"stand up--!"
The other students also stood up.
"Hello, teacher!"
Normally, the voices of greeting in Mr. Wen's class are quite loud. Now there is a unified pace. The uniform and loud question marks almost seem to blow the roof off.
The other teachers also smiled when they saw this. It seemed that Teacher Wen had made a lot of preparations in advance?
But soon, when the other teachers saw the students around them open their textbooks and see the classical Chinese article about "Wolf" without any handwriting or annotations, they were a little surprised - is it true that there was no preparation at all? Did they teach the new text directly in the open class?
This is somewhat unexpected. After all, many teachers will prepare the content of open classes in advance, and will even deliberately choose some texts that have been taught long ago to be re-taught as open classes, in order to allow students to have good interactive performance.
If I just teach the new lesson like this, can the students keep up? If I am the only one speaking on the podium without any interaction, then the open class will be a failure.
With such doubts, everyone looked at Wen Susu on the podium.
Wen Susu seemed very calm, but she was actually a little nervous.
It seemed that she was not prepared, but that was just because she did not ask her students to prepare. She herself had been preparing for this open class for a long time.
"Students have all seen that many teachers have come to our class today. Before the class begins, let's warmly welcome the teachers with applause!"
[Pa pa pa——]
Warm applause broke out and the classmates in the class were also very considerate and clapped very loudly!
After all, Teacher Wen is so nice to everyone, so naturally no one wants to embarrass Teacher Wen in this class.
The teachers present were all adults, and the children's expressions could not be hidden the most. Whether they were cooperating to complete Wen Susu's task or they truly liked and loved Wen Susu, it could be seen at a glance. This real and harmonious teacher-student relationship surprised many teachers.
"Today we are going to study a classic work - "The Wolf", which is a short story from "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" written by Pu Songling, a famous writer in the Qing Dynasty. Before we start, who can tell me what impression you have of wolves?"
"Wolves are ferocious animals!"
"Wolves are cunning!"
"The wolves will cooperate!"
"Wolves look a lot like dogs!"
"If a child cries when sleeping at night, he will be taken away by a wolf!"
"Hahaha……"
There are naturally no wolves on the island, and even Fang Wei has never seen a wolf with his own eyes. However, this animal, the wolf, often appears in daily conversation topics and has become a synonym for a certain culture.
When Wen Susu teaches, she never speaks directly from the text.
Just like she is doing now, she would first extend the related topic to arouse everyone's interest, and then slowly turn the topic back to the text.
It looks simple, but in practice, it really tests the teacher's ability to control the situation. After all, these are all young boys and girls with wild imaginations. If you are not careful, it will really turn into a gathering for casual chatting and gossiping.
Most of the students in the class were unaware of this silent and smooth way of integrating the text, but the experienced teachers who attended the class naturally learned the beauty of Mr. Wen's lectures from it.
Even Principal Wu nodded secretly as he listened, opened his notebook and started taking notes.
With the help of cartoons on the blackboard, Wen Susu explained the key vocabulary and sentence structure of this classical Chinese article to everyone with pictures and texts, and read aloud.
This is real Chinese language skills. Combined with comic graphics, some students with poor academic performance can easily follow her thinking.
No wonder the Chinese language performance of Class 2 is so average and excellent!
At the end, it was the role-playing session that the students in the class were looking forward to the most.
Wen Susu asked Fang Wei and several classmates to come on stage, play the butcher and wolf in the story respectively, and recreate the key scenes in the story.
Fang Wei played the butcher with a broom, and A Sheng played the wolf, barking loudly.
"No, Ah Sheng, are you a wolf or a dog?!"
"What did the wolf cry?"
“Ooooooooo! Ooooooooo!”
With praise from several classmates, the classroom atmosphere became more lively.
Even the teachers who came to listen to the class were amused by such funny and vivid role-playing, just like the students in the classroom. They were unknowingly brought into the atmosphere of the classroom!
A forty-five-minute class can be long or short.
Until the bell rang for the end of get out of class, Wen Susu gave a closing speech to summarize the class.
"Today we have studied "Wolf" together. I hope everyone can understand the power of courage and wisdom from it. Our class ends here today. get out of class dismissed!"
"stand up--!"
“Thank you, teacher—!”
Wen Susu at the podium finally breathed a sigh of relief. The temperature was just cool at that time, and after finishing the class, some sweat appeared on her forehead.
Fortunately, everything was completed as she expected. Perhaps she herself felt that there were still some flaws in the class.
But for the teachers who attended the class, it was already an impeccable class!
Starting with Principal Wu, all the teachers attending the lecture applauded.
Previously, Teacher Liu, Teacher Li, and Teacher Wang thought that Teacher Wen's Class 2 would do well in the midterm exam, and there was a lot of luck involved, such as better students...
After all, Wen Susu is just a fledgling college student. How much teaching experience can she have?
Until now, I have personally sat in the lecture hall and listened to Teacher Wen’s open class.
Teacher Liu, Teacher Li, and Teacher Wang were all convinced! No wonder Class 2 did so well in the exam. There was a reason for that!
Especially Teacher Liu, who also teaches Chinese. In this comparison, he is completely defeated in terms of both academic performance and classroom atmosphere!
Thinking back to my own lectures, the students in the audience were always dozing off. I really can’t blame them…
"Teacher Wen teaches well. I think you can all learn from her teaching method." Principal Wu turned around and said to several teachers.
"..."
It’s easier said than done, Principal Wu!
Let’s not talk about anything else, just this painting, you can never learn it even if you die!
(End of this chapter)
