{"id":77157,"date":"2021-10-25T16:54:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T20:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=77157"},"modified":"2021-10-25T16:54:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T20:54:39","slug":"the-damaging-myth-of-the-natural-teacher-mcmurtrie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/10\/25\/the-damaging-myth-of-the-natural-teacher-mcmurtrie\/","title":{"rendered":"The Damaging Myth of the Natural Teacher [McMurtrie]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/the-damaging-myth-of-the-natural-teacher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Damaging Myth of the Natural Teacher<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from chronicle.com by Beth McMurtrie<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The mistaken ideas about teaching that Sathy had early in her career are widespread \u2014 and not only among new instructors. Good teaching is often seen as a natural talent when really it\u2019s a skill, one that can be learned and refined.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThinking back to those early days, though, Sathy sees how that first stumble could have led her in a different direction. If it weren\u2019t for a \u201cbig lightbulb moment\u201d that enabled her to quickly understand her mistakes, a fierce determination to become a better teacher, and an openness to seeing her role not as the expert who commands a room, but as a partner in students\u2019 learning, she could have been yet another hapless instructor wondering how to get through the semester without too many punishing evaluations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cI\u2019m glad I had the courage to keep getting back into the ring,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Damaging Myth of the Natural Teacher &#8212; from chronicle.com by Beth McMurtrie Excerpt: The mistaken ideas about teaching that Sathy had early in her career are widespread \u2014 and not only among new instructors. Good teaching is often seen as a natural talent when really it\u2019s a skill, one that can be learned and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,115,302,71,3,269,50,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjunct-faculty","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-faculty-staff","category-higher-education","category-professional-development","category-teaching-learning","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77159,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77157\/revisions\/77159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}