{"id":5129,"date":"2018-07-25T08:13:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T14:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=5129"},"modified":"2018-07-25T08:13:53","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T14:13:53","slug":"real-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2018\/07\/25\/real-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afterwards, a few of us stuck around and chatted: getting to know each other, sharing war stories, challenges, frustrations. I mostly smiled and listened, because although I was happy to meet them, I don&rsquo;t have war stories or challenges or frustrations (yet).&nbsp;Then one of them said something that made me wonder.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You can see who the real teachers are,&rdquo; she said.&nbsp;The others nodded.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The comment sounded a bit like one I heard from my teaching hero who once told me, &ldquo;Just don&rsquo;t hate the kids.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It makes me wonder. Although I know what kind of teacher I <strong><em>want to be<\/em><\/strong>, and although I know what kind of teacher I am <em><strong>planning to be<\/strong><\/em>, I don&rsquo;t know what kind of teacher I <strong><em>will be<\/em><\/strong>. And I don&rsquo;t know if I will be a <strong><em>real teacher who others can see<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m working on it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afterwards, a few of us stuck around and chatted: getting to know each other, sharing war stories, challenges, frustrations. I mostly smiled and listened, because although I was happy to meet them, I don&rsquo;t have war stories or challenges or frustrations (yet).&nbsp;Then one of them said something that made me wonder. &ldquo;You can see who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5129"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5131,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129\/revisions\/5131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}