Chapter 45: This Person Has Changed! ①
Li Kai looked at Ai Si Yuan, “Ai Si Yuan, why are you, from Class 1, coming to our Class 10?”
Ai Si Yuan broke free from Li Kai, not even glancing at him, and turned to leave, “You probably can’t control that, can you?”
Damn it! Li Kai clenched his fist. He couldn’t control it? He couldn’t control it? He was the Class Monitor of Class 10, what was the meaning of this Class 1 Class Monitor brazenly coming to his class to poach students? What did he mean he couldn’t control it?
Li Kai looked up at his seat. Nie Qiu was already sitting there, taking out a book to read. Good, very good. Nie Qiu, you want to go to Class 1? We’ll see!
Nie Qiu was actually very much looking forward to the afternoon. She looked out the window. The trees in the sports field and the green belt outside were all full of vibrant green, along with beautiful flowers of various colors. She liked the feeling of standing on the lectern and speaking eloquently, and she also liked the feeling of the people she taught making progress.
The first class of the afternoon was English. Before class, Nie Qiu went to the English office to ask for leave, but the English teacher was nowhere to be found in the office.
After the class bell rang, Nie Qiu returned to the classroom with some helplessness. Not long after sitting down at her seat, she saw the English teacher walk in, holding a stack of exam papers. “Teacher Yang gave me the papers you took last time this morning, and I only finished grading them before class. Here, I want to commend our student Nie Qiu. She got a perfect score on this test.”
The classroom was so noisy that almost no one heard what the English teacher was saying. It seemed that the subject teachers of Class 10 also wanted to see things clearly. Since they couldn’t manage it, they wouldn’t. It wasn’t until the English teacher called the group leaders and class representatives several times to hand out the papers that the class representatives and group leaders reacted and went to the lectern to get them.
“Class Monitor, is that Nie Qiu you mentioned actually coming? How long do we have to wait?” A boy stood up and walked to Ai Si Yuan’s seat. “I say, what do you think someone from Class 10 can teach us?”
“Yeah, Class Monitor, Nie Qiu isn’t scared and won’t come, right? Let’s just have self-study during self-study class, no need to wait with composition books, right? I still have a few math problems to do!” A girl sitting not far from Ai Si Yuan, who was reading a composition book, turned to look at Ai Si Yuan.
Ai Si Yuan looked at his classmates with some apology. He smiled and said, “You’ve all seen the compositions on the notice board. That’s Teacher Yang’s highest score in his teaching history. It’s not bad to hear her talk about how to write compositions. Didn’t you all agree when I told you yesterday?”
“Of course we want to learn! But a class is only a little over forty minutes, and ten minutes have already passed. If we keep waiting, what will we study ourselves? The homeroom teacher said that everyone in our class must go to a key high school, if not Provincial First High School, then at least Second High School. Self-study time is meant for us to review and make up for our shortcomings. I don’t want to waste time waiting for someone.” The boy who walked over sat directly on Ai Si Yuan’s desk. “If you feel like you’re waiting for someone, you won’t be able to concentrate on reading, will you?”
Ai Si Yuan stood up. “You guys wait, I’ll go to Class 10 to take a look. If she’s not here when I get back, we’ll have self-study this class!” Without waiting for them to finish speaking, he walked out of the classroom.
Nie Qiu looked at the chaotic environment around her. The English teacher on the lectern, holding chalk and intently staring at her while lecturing, made her sigh. How could she bear to go up and ask for leave! The teacher completely treated her as a spiritual support for attending class in Class 10. Nie Qiu sighed again and stared seriously at the English teacher on the lectern. She saw Ai Si Yuan standing at the doorway constantly waving at her. Nie Qiu pointed to the English teacher on the stage who was using a few problems from the exam papers as examples to lecture, and helplessly spread her hands at Ai Si Yuan.
Ai Si Yuan sighed, knocked on the classroom door, but the noisy sounds inside the classroom drowned out the knock. Helplessly, Ai Si Yuan had to shout loudly, “Teacher Zhang!”
The English teacher stopped his hand, which was writing on the blackboard, and looked at Ai Si Yuan at the classroom door. The students in the classroom also stopped their various distracting actions and looked at Ai Si Yuan standing at the classroom door.
Ai Si Yuan flinched slightly but still walked into the classroom and to the English teacher’s side. “Teacher, I have something to tell you.”
The English teacher found it a bit amusing. He recognized the first place student in the entire grade. “Tell me! What is it?”
“Teacher, I’d like to ask for leave on behalf of Nie Qiu, and let Nie Qiu come to our class for an exchange study.” Ai Si Yuan said with a smile, then looked at Nie Qiu, who was looking at the lectern with surprise, and smiled.
The English teacher was very surprised. To be honest, the grades of the students in Class 10 were not ideal. Nie Qiu’s grades were only considered upper-middle in Class 10. However, ever since he saw Nie Qiu talking to someone in English at a street stall book stall last time, he had paid some attention to this girl.
This morning, Li Kai brought a stack of exam papers and said that the homeroom teacher had asked him to lecture to the students in the afternoon. He curiously found Nie Qiu’s exam papers. To his surprise, he originally thought her English had just improved a lot, but the papers were neat, the sentences were fluent, the problem-solving ideas were clear, and even the English short compositions were written very well.
For a junior high school student, this was practically a perfect score! Besides surprise, he was also very excited, and it finally gave him the desire to teach in Class 10.
To be honest, their profession is teaching. Regardless of which class it is, they must teach. This means that everything in the textbook must be taught to the students. However, when facing a group of students who are unlikely to listen, many subject teachers choose to use half a class period to read out the contents of the textbook and then sit on the lectern, ignoring the students below. But this teaching method is only applicable to subjects like history, politics, geography, biology, and politics.
But English is different. To be honest, English, physics, and chemistry all require explanation; they are not finished by simply reading them out. As teachers, who didn’t choose to go to normal school because they liked the teaching profession? As teachers, who doesn’t hope that when they are speaking eloquently on the lectern, the people learning below are studying seriously, actively answering questions, and making progress every day? Perhaps after being influenced by society, many teachers will treat teaching as a way to make a living, but if someone listens attentively while they are lecturing, they will also have more motivation in the teaching process, won’t they?
Therefore, after seeing that Nie Qiu had truly made a lot of progress in her studies, it also gave him the motivation to teach.
He also, when lecturing, really likes people who listen attentively!
