{"id":3961,"date":"2018-12-08T22:47:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T04:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/?p=3961"},"modified":"2018-12-08T22:50:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T04:50:13","slug":"final-thoughts-winter-i-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/2018\/12\/08\/final-thoughts-winter-i-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Thoughts: Winter I 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3962\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3962\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/files\/2018\/12\/20181206_162010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3962 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/files\/2018\/12\/20181206_162010-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/files\/2018\/12\/20181206_162010-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/files\/2018\/12\/20181206_162010-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/files\/2018\/12\/20181206_162010-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Future physics teachers (one student is missing from the photo) who were my students in the Physics Methods Course 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As I am saying good-bye to my students, who will soon be going on a physics teaching practicum in local schools, I keep recalling how I started physics teaching almost 30 years ago. It was not easy, considering I also had to do it in a foreign language (Hebrew) and in a school that had a very different culture than the school I attended as a student.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, many of my students will face similar challenges. However, they have a strong peer support group and a strong community. This is something I am very proud of. It is impossible to become a good teacher in a few month, but it is possible to star the teaching journey on the &#8220;right foot&#8221;. I hope my students have done that. A lot of them also have various experiences that will help them in the classroom. So I am confident that our UBC Physics Teacher-Candidates will not only do well during the practicum, but will become very inspiring and knowledgeable physics teachers. I would like to wish them all a very productive and successful practicum experience and of course a very happy and successful new year.\u00a0 I enjoyed teaching them very much. Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I am saying good-bye to my students, who will soon be going on a physics teaching practicum in local schools, I keep recalling how I started physics teaching almost 30 years ago. It was not easy, considering I also&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/2018\/12\/08\/final-thoughts-winter-i-2018\/\" class=\"readmore\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Final Thoughts: Winter I 2018<\/span><span class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[795,6989,2708],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-general-teaching","category-teacher-education","content-layout-excerpt-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3964,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961\/revisions\/3964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}