{"id":3,"date":"2016-01-12T09:37:45","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T16:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mslangille\/?p=3"},"modified":"2016-06-08T21:15:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T04:15:55","slug":"teaching-is-like-ski-touring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mslangille\/teaching-is-like-ski-touring\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching is like ski touring"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teaching is like ski touring; walking uphill on skis and then skiing downhill after the climb. \u00a0I have skied my entire life. I ski raced for nearly 10 years, taught myself how to telemark ski, coached ski racing and so, learning how to ski tour was the natural progression in my skiing story. \u00a0That\u2019s not to say that learning to ski tour hasn\u2019t been challenging. \u00a0It is a delicate balancing act of managing appropriate gear, the weather, the exposed avalanche terrain, and the people. The planning, map reading, the many physical steps, and the moments of self-doubt are part of the climb. \u00a0Standing at the top, with the sun shining on my face, knowing I get to ski down, remind me <\/span>why<\/span><\/i> I chose to climb. \u00a0For me, the climb is just like teaching– the lesson planning, the many steps and hours it requires, managing of people and resources, and the moments of self-doubt. \u00a0The resiliency it requires to walk to the top of a mountain with my skis has been fostered through my interest in skiing and the desire to reach the top in order to ski down. \u00a0Resilience is linked to the development of teacher efficacy and underpinned by emotional competence and this plays a role in new teacher success. \u00a0I believe that the resilience it requires to climb a mountain can be translated to the resilience it requires to be a successful educator. \u00a0The \u2018climb\u2019, with its many challenges, eventually reaches the \u2018top\u2019, where I see and experience student learning and understanding. During my two week practicum as a student teacher at Maple Grove Elementary School I planned a lesson on world religions for my Montessori 4,5,6 students. \u00a0Initially, this lesson was intimidating and took many hours of planning and thought. \u00a0I edited multiple times, had moments of self-doubt and anticipated the lesson for I was going to be observed as a teacher for the very first time. \u00a0The \u2018climb\u2019 to this lesson where I would hopefully witness student learning and understanding was a challenging one. \u00a0The students were engaged and thoughtful. \u00a0They participated in the discussion that I facilitated and were able to ask questions and later infer the answers. \u00a0For my very first lesson as a teacher candidate, it felt like the ski down. \u00a0I believe I can use this teaching metaphor as a constant reminder of what I am capable of in my personal life as well as my teaching career.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Teaching is like ski touring; walking uphill on skis and then skiing downhill after the climb. \u00a0I have skied my entire life. I ski raced for nearly 10 years, taught myself how to telemark ski, coached ski racing and so, learning how to ski tour was the natural progression in my skiing story. \u00a0That\u2019s not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34622,"featured_media":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1508595],"tags":[1508885,1508891,286413],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-about-hannah-langille","tag-get-to-know-me","tag-grade-4-5-6","tag-practicum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mslangille\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mslangille\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mslangille\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mslangille\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mslangille\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mslangille\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mslangille\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mslangille\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mslangille\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mslangille\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mslangille\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}