{"id":31,"date":"2016-10-07T11:31:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T18:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/morrisdesign\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2017-06-15T13:03:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T20:03:19","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/morrisdesign\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"ALL ABOUT ME"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My name is Chris Morris and I was just hired as a Priority Teacher on call in Surrey and Abbotsford and I am just finishing up the Teacher Candidate program at the University of British Columbia. My teaching areas include Applied Design Skills and Technology and Media Arts. There are many reasons why I decided to enter the teaching profession. I grew up surrounded by teachers as both of my Grandparents were teachers, it was through them that I was able to see what the job entailed at an early age. I have always had a positive experience in school and I enjoyed being there.<\/p>\n

I worked as a Teaching Assistant for nine years in the public secondary school system. It was during this time that I really gained confidence that I could make a difference in children’s lives. It was also during this time that I married my wife (who is also a teacher). The thing that was holding me back from getting my teaching degree was that I wasn’t sure what subject area I would want to teach. During my time as a TA I worked alongside a teacher who was heavily into Tech Ed, he pushed me to take the Technology Teaching Education program at BCIT. It was here that I found my calling.I know the difference that teachers can make on students lives (positive or negative). This is my driving force, I want students to leave my class having learned the subject area that I teach them but more importantly I want them to leave with a better understanding of who they are, and how to rationalize the world once they leave the bubble that is high school.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My name is Chris Morris and I was just hired as a Priority Teacher on call in Surrey and Abbotsford and I am just finishing up the Teacher Candidate program at the University of British Columbia. My teaching areas include Applied Design Skills and Technology and Media Arts. There are many reasons why I decided to enter the teaching profession. I grew up surrounded by teachers as both of my Grandparents were teachers, it was through them that I was able to see what the job entailed at an early…read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46019,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-31","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","et-no-image","et-bg-layout-dark","et-white-bg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/morrisdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/morrisdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/morrisdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/morrisdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/morrisdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":45,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/morrisdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/morrisdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/morrisdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}