Unit 4 Wildlife Protection language points课时作业

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　　My students entered the art room with their usual eagerness to see what they would be learning in today's class. Little did they know they were going to be students for a new teaching method that is spreading the nation.

　　I often use videos as previews and supplements (补充) to our art lessons providing students with a variety of artists showing their skills in reallife situations outside the classroom. Finding a new painting technique called glue batik(胶水蜡染), I thought of something new I hadn't tried before! How awesome would it be to learn a new technique together with artists? The lesson was planned, presented to the students without any introduction or set objectives. I also asked the students to watch and pause the video as often as they needed to.

　　They watched as the artist explained and showed her skills, taking notes on her steps and results. After the video, they shared what they felt the artist's objectives were, her end result using art vocabulary as well as the steps they would need to know to present their own examples. Then they began creating their works using the glue batik technique.

Surfing the Internet a couple of weeks later, I found that the teaching method I used sounded very familiar to a new movement in education