Part 1) Some high school teachers spend most of the class time lecturing while the students listen and take notes. Other high school teachers spend most of the class time on discussion and projects that students are highly involved in and exchange their ideas. Which of these two approaches do you think is more effective for students' learning and why? In high school, there are two main teaching approaches. One focuses on lecturing, leaving students listening and taking notes most of the time. The other one emphasizes the engagement of students, involving students in discussions, answering questions, and doing assignments by themselves as much as possible. In my opinion, the latter is better for two main reasons, which I will elaborate on in the following paragraphs. First of all, in today's information era, there are many open courses and lots of knowledge shared on the internet, so teaching textbook content should not be our priority in the classroom. Instead, teachers should be more concerned with how to devise good questions and projects and guide students to think and express their ideas. Students are not learning machines that passively cram down what teachers try to instill into them. Conversely, they should critically think about theories and reflect on their daily practice of theory application. In this way, they can take things in better and form their own independent ideas. My personal experience is a compelling example. I teach a film analysis course and divide my students into different groups. I encourage them to talk among their team members and exchange their thoughts before they speak out in class. This allows them to expose themselves to different perspectives and respect other distinct perspectives (repeated word). Therefore, they can explore the meaning of the film more thoroughly and deeply. For this reason, I believe inspiring students to get involved in class is more important than lecturing them.(To be continued)