{"id":63594,"date":"2018-05-09T11:41:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T15:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=63594"},"modified":"2018-05-09T11:43:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T15:43:19","slug":"a-huge-thank-you-to-all-of-the-teachers-out-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2018\/05\/09\/a-huge-thank-you-to-all-of-the-teachers-out-there\/","title":{"rendered":"A huge &#8220;Thank you!&#8221; to all of the teachers out there!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TeacherAppreciationWeek?src=hash\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63595\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/TeacherAppreciationWeek.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/TeacherAppreciationWeek.jpg 900w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/TeacherAppreciationWeek-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/TeacherAppreciationWeek-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>From DSC:<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> I&#8217;m very grateful for the teachers that I&#8217;ve had in my life as well as for the teachers that our children have had throughout their lives! (This goes for the coaches and pastors that have been in our lives as well!) <\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Many of those teachers really went the extra mile &#8212; making personal sacrifices while they contributed the additional time and efforts that it took to get the job done.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Teaching and learning is messy and <em>very tough work.<\/em>\u00a0 For example, it&#8217;s very difficult &#8212; if not impossible &#8212; to simultaneously provide personalized\/customized learning to 25-30+ students (and to do so every day)! <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Not every student has the same prior knowledge. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Not every student has the same capabilities; some students have additional\/special needs to help them learn. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Not every student learns at the same pace.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Not every student has the same goals.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Not every student has the same interests and\/or passions.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The job\u00a0can be very stressful, for a variety of reasons &#8212; one of which is that teachers have to deal with all kinds of agendas that are simultaneously coming at them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">So thank you to all the teachers out there who are making significant contributions to others&#8217; lives. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Thank you for your service to others!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TeacherAppreciationWeek?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#TeacherAppreciationWeek2018<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: I&#8217;m very grateful for the teachers that I&#8217;ve had in my life as well as for the teachers that our children have had throughout their lives! (This goes for the coaches and pastors that have been in our lives as well!) Many of those teachers really went the extra mile &#8212; making personal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,72,500,46,382,226,480,89,50,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility-udl","category-daniel-s-christian","category-hearts-matters-of-the-heart","category-k-12-related","category-neurodivergent-special-needs","category-passions","category-society","category-teachers","category-teaching-learning","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63594"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63601,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63594\/revisions\/63601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}