{"id":2340,"date":"2017-05-17T19:24:34","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T02:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/?p=2340"},"modified":"2017-05-17T19:24:34","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T02:24:34","slug":"hello-from-vancouver-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/2017\/05\/17\/hello-from-vancouver-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello From Vancouver!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone,<\/p>\n<p>My name is Sean Turner and I&#8217;m currently a grade 6\/7 teacher at a school in downtown Vancouver. This is my 9th MET course and I can see the light at the end of the tunnel!\u00a0On top of learning the new BC curriculum,\u00a0I&#8217;m also learning the\u00a0MYP IB program (Middle Years Program, International Baccalaureate). Our school&#8217;s grade 6 and 7 classes teach this and I find it fits perfectly with the new BC curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>I love travelling in my spare time. I&#8217;ve been lucky enough to have taught at schools in South Africa and the United Arab Emirates. From one extreme to the other.<\/p>\n<p>With this course, I hope to learn about STEM challenges\/theories, and more engaging ways of teaching math and science using technology.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to working with you all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone, My name is Sean Turner and I&#8217;m currently a grade 6\/7 teacher at a school in downtown Vancouver. This is my 9th MET course and I can see the light at the end of the tunnel!\u00a0On top of learning the new BC curriculum,\u00a0I&#8217;m also learning the\u00a0MYP IB program (Middle Years Program, International Baccalaureate). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1669395],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-introductions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2342,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions\/2342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}