{"id":24,"date":"2013-09-28T14:02:57","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T21:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/flexiblelearning\/?p=24"},"modified":"2018-09-19T15:22:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T22:22:35","slug":"teaching-spak-the-ignition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/flexiblelearning\/nisha\/teaching-spak-the-ignition\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching is like _ Sparking the Ignition System."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Teaching is Like Sparking The Ignition System.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The spark timing is extremely important &#8211; For some students we need to advance that spark but for others, those reluctant &amp; sluggish engines, advancing the spark would only lead to detonation\/knocking that might ultimately cause an engine failure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Failure that would either reflect in school drop out rates, those failing grades or changes in their graduating majors.<\/p>\n<p>Teaching can not happen without a super conductor. The teacher has to be able to connect with the students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">She has to be the conductor that can eventually deliver that spark.<\/p>\n<p>And deliver that spark without self-burnouts. You see, the weaker the conduction the more effort required on the part of the teacher to convey the knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>Once sparked &#8211; see those engines rev up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>REVVED UP AND READY TO GO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teaching is Like Sparking The Ignition System. The spark timing is extremely important &#8211; For some students we need to advance that spark but for others, those reluctant &amp; sluggish engines, advancing the spark would only lead to detonation\/knocking that might ultimately cause an engine failure. Failure that would either reflect in school drop out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7089,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[233,573],"tags":[753299,647073,268883,753300,7745,78,753297,573,753293,37,2960],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-teaching","tag-connecting-with-students","tag-education-2","tag-flexible-learning","tag-higheredu","tag-instructor","tag-learning","tag-teacher-is-like","tag-teaching","tag-teaching-methods","tag-ubc","tag-university-of-british-columbia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/flexiblelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/flexiblelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/flexiblelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/flexiblelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7089"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/flexiblelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/flexiblelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/flexiblelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/flexiblelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/flexiblelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/flexiblelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}