{"id":4,"date":"2015-06-16T19:32:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T02:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/firstgradeedition\/?p=4"},"modified":"2015-06-17T11:29:19","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T18:29:19","slug":"misunderstood-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/firstgradeedition\/2015\/06\/16\/misunderstood-genius\/","title":{"rendered":"Misunderstood Genius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/firstgradeedition\/files\/2015\/06\/9a729ec8ae52b8bda6c2dcb69617ef79.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/firstgradeedition\/files\/2015\/06\/9a729ec8ae52b8bda6c2dcb69617ef79.jpg\" alt=\"9a729ec8ae52b8bda6c2dcb69617ef79\" width=\"600\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/firstgradeedition\/files\/2015\/06\/9a729ec8ae52b8bda6c2dcb69617ef79.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/firstgradeedition\/files\/2015\/06\/9a729ec8ae52b8bda6c2dcb69617ef79-300x96.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Misunderstood genius.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Everything I need to know about teaching I learned from Calvin and his philosophical fur-ball friend Hobbes. Well, not everything. I need to take some pedagogy classes. Seriously. The genius of Bill Watterson&#8217;s characters, however, did instill in me a love for the child who doesn&#8217;t fit the mold. Misunderstood genius. Hallelujah for mold-breakers.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere along the line, someone got the idea we all needed to conform. Naturally, education became\u00a0a means to squeeze unique individuals with diverse learning styles, creativities and ideas through a pedagogical meat-grinder, if you will, churning out mediocrity.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, educators, the great\u00a0ones that is, understand\u00a0that a diverse classroom requires a mindset that recognizes the multiplicity of intelligences, celebrates them and honours each. And you know what? It&#8217;s possible.<\/p>\n<p>I want to be a teacher because I want to learn how to celebrate misunderstood genius in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and this is my blog.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Misunderstood genius.\u00a0 Everything I need to know about teaching I learned from Calvin and his philosophical fur-ball friend Hobbes. Well, not everything. I need to take some pedagogy classes. Seriously. The genius of Bill Watterson&#8217;s characters, however, did instill in me a love for the child who doesn&#8217;t fit the mold. Misunderstood genius. Hallelujah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32381,"featured_media":5,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/firstgradeedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/firstgradeedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/firstgradeedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/firstgradeedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32381"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/firstgradeedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/firstgradeedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/firstgradeedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/19"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/firstgradeedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/firstgradeedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/firstgradeedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/firstgradeedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}