Music teachers wanted for No.1 Middle School

We want two music teachers for our school Music Club. You need to be able to play the guitar or the violin and be good with kids.

Time: 3: 20 p.m.— 4: 20 p.m. Monday to Friday every week.

Pay: 100 yuan an hour

Phone number: 3723966

Email address: No.1 middleschoolmc@126. com

Address: 326 Bridge Street. (Take No. 121 Bus)

Art teacher wanted

Can you paint? Can you draw? Do you like kids and want to be with them? Then you can be in Yixiu Art Club.

Time: 8:00 a.m. — 10:00 a.m. Saturday and Sunday every week.

Pay: 80 yuan an hour.

Phone number: 693-8925

Email address: yixiuartclub@163. com

Address: 165 Zhangshan Road. (Take No. 212 Bus)

American boy Tyler Gordon is a high school student. He is young, but he has faced more challenges than some people experience in a lifetime. He was born deaf. At age 6 he got some of his hearing after having surgery（外科手术）, but he still speaks with a stutter（口吃）. In primary school, he got bullied（欺负）a lot because of that.

But at 10, Gordon found his artistic voice. After watching his mom paint, he decided to try it himself. He drew a portrait （肖像）of his headmaster and won the first place in a school art competition. Ever since then, he’s painted more than 500 portraits of people who encourage him.

“Sometimes I can’t talk and get words out, so I speak through my art, ” Gordon says. Painting helps him move past the bullying, which he still experiences. “It helps me stop thinking about that time.”

Gordon’s big break came in 2018. His portrait of a basketball star became popular and the star’s mother bought it. Gordon soon became famous. He painted more stars and he even met some of them. He did many interviews （采访） which stopped him from being afraid to speak in public.

Gordon won the “2020 Global Child Prodigy Award” for his art. Now, he starts his own online classes. He hopes to show other kids how to use art to overcome their challenges.

At about 22:00 on February 4, 2022, at the opening ceremony（幕式）of the 24th Winter Olympics, a children’s choir（合唱团）from Hebei Province sang the Olympic theme song. Deng Xiaolan, who was born in Yijiazhuang Village, Fuping, took the children from a small village to the center of the world stage.

When Deng came to Malan Primary School in 2003, she asked the children, “What song can you sing?” To her surprise, the children were too shy to sing a song. Deng was very sad. At that time, she decided to do something. “I want children in my hometown to have music in their childhood,” she said.

Deng came to Malan Village again and started to work as a music teacher in 2004. It took Deng at least seven hours to reach the village from Beijing. Although she met many difficulties, Deng was happy to find that the children were very interested in music and most of them were good at music.

Over the past 18 years, she spent at least half a year each year teaching music. It is Deng’s wish to give her students a concert in a natural environment. In 2013, Deng started concert in Malan Village to give her young students a chance to feel the magic of music.

When she watched the performance at the opening ceremony of the 24th Winter Olympics, Deng said, “The children in the mountains have bright eyes, like the stars in the sky. Their voice is like the sound of nature, and their love for singing is moving（令人感动的）.”