I'm teaching my afternoon class, made up of high school students who are preparing to take the TOEFL. In the morning I taught a group of little kids, and a few of them are still downstairs waiting for their parents to show up. One of the exercises we're practicing today involves listening to an excerpt from a university lecture and then summarizing it orally. I play the excerpt we're using today, which begins thus:
OK, young children and art. Research suggests that learning art skills can benefit a young child's development. Two of the ways it can do this is by providing a platform to express complex emotions and by encouraging persistence. Now what do mean when I say "a platform to express complex emotions"? Young children have limited vocabulary, so how would they communicate the feeling of pride, for example? A drawing, though, making a drawing of feeling proud, this is something a young child could do. . . .After the class I go downstairs and find that while the older students were listening to the lecture, one of the little kids was drawing this on the whiteboard in the lobby:
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