{"id":3364,"date":"2013-04-08T19:14:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T03:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cchiaen\/?p=3364"},"modified":"2013-04-08T19:14:18","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T03:14:18","slug":"life-of-a-student-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cchiaen\/2013\/04\/08\/life-of-a-student-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Life of a student teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Work for a cause, not for applause. Live life to express, not to impress. Don&#8217;t strive to make your presence noticed, just make your absence felt.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Being a teacher is hard work. Student teaching follows an extremely steep learning curve, and it is one that requires me to be completely humble. I enjoy the new routine, waking up early and looking forward to an early bedtime. I love being with my students at school, and I feel comfortable and completely at ease in the school environment. However, it is incredibly trying just to be responsible for many, many things all at once.<\/p>\n<p>I appreciate the great feedback I am getting on my teaching, from all perspectives (my mentor, my own reflections, my student&#8217;s reactions, my colleagues&#8217; discussions). It is just scary to be so transparent and have to make myself vulnerable to critique in order to grow the most, best.<\/p>\n<p>While I am working on incorporating &#8220;Big Ideas&#8221; into my lessons, I must also focus on the big idea for me as a teacher. I want the students to love learning. I want to impart strategies that they can use to work together, as well as independently. I want to make learning meaningful for the students by facilitating discussion and exploration of real life events and objects.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is another day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work for a cause, not for applause. Live life to express, not to impress. Don&#8217;t strive to make your presence noticed, just make your absence felt. &nbsp; Being a teacher is hard work. Student teaching follows an extremely steep learning curve, and it is one that requires me to be completely humble. I enjoy the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4810,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4274,9082,233,251577,57787,2139,535431,381,573],"class_list":["post-3364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-challenges","tag-confidence","tag-education","tag-life-lessons","tag-passion","tag-reflection","tag-student-teacher","tag-teacher","tag-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cchiaen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cchiaen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cchiaen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cchiaen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cchiaen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cchiaen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3365,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cchiaen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions\/3365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cchiaen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cchiaen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cchiaen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}