{"id":1,"date":"2024-12-01T22:02:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T22:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/period3withmadib.com\/?p=1"},"modified":"2024-12-13T07:40:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T07:40:46","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/period3withmadib.com\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"11 Things I\u2019ve Learned in My 11 Years of Teaching:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. Relationships are so important.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. \u201cBe firm, but fair.\u201d- My Grandpa and retired Band Director\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Don\u2019t be afraid to be yourself.\u00a0 Teach things that you are passionate about and relate what you are teaching to things that you genuinely love.\u00a0 I love afternoon tea, brunch, royalty, love, the finer things in life, fashion, and art.\u00a0 Throughout the year we talk about these things.\u00a0 I had so many classes where I listened to sports metaphors for things and I don\u2019t think it\u2019s bad for women to show what they are passionate about. I liked when my teachers were passionate about their subject and their passion made me more excited about what we were learning. I hope that I can emulate that with my students.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. \u201cI think you are a good teacher, but I think you could be an even greater teacher if you incorporate grammar lessons into your curriculum.\u201d – My mother in law and former English teacher\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Not everything needs to be graded.\u00a0 But also if you stay on top of grading then grading doesn\u2019t become as big of a chore.\u00a0 I try to have everything graded by the time I leave on Friday afternoon.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. You are in charge of your classroom.\u00a0 If something isn\u2019t working you can change things at any time.\u00a0 Even in the middle of a unit.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Make sure to plan things that bring you JOY.\u00a0 What did you want teaching to be like when you envisioned being a teacher?\u00a0 Make sure to plan lessons like that regularly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Keep notes from your students. Read them when you are having a bad day. Read them when you are having a good day. Read them when you are procrastinating grading during your prep period.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. Time goes by so quickly.\u00a0 It\u2019s crazy how fast 10 months goes by.\u00a0 Every year I start off worried if my students will like me (I\u2019m such an enneagram 2) AND if I will like them.\u00a0 Then it turns out that I L O V E them.\u00a0 Then the end of May comes too soon and I\u2019m saying goodbye to some of my favorite people and crying.\u00a0 I try to remember this even on days when they are really bugging me, that at the end of the year I\u2019m going to miss them and to give them grace.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. P O W E R\u00a0 S T A N D A R D S: Figure out what yours are, and make sure that you are covering them every quarter.\u00a0 They will make your teaching more cohesive and just better.\u00a0 I would say to have about 10 standards that you are going to teach throughout the year every quarter.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  11. It\u2019s okay to do repetitive tasks.\u00a0 I thought when I started teaching that every day while we were reading a book we needed a new activity.\u00a0 This did a few things: 1, it was hard to plan a novel unit, 2. I don\u2019t think any of my students fully mastered any of the skills I was teaching them, 3. D I S J O I N T E D lessons.\u00a0 Now when I\u2019m teaching a novel I pick a few skills\/concepts I really want to focus on, and plan how we are going to practice those things every day.\u00a0 It\u2019s normally in some sort of packet.\u00a0 Then after I have done that, then I go and plan other supplemental fun activities.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"period3wmadib","author_link":"https:\/\/period3withmadib.com\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/period3withmadib.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/period3withmadib.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/period3withmadib.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/period3withmadib.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/period3withmadib.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/period3withmadib.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/period3withmadib.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/period3withmadib.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/period3withmadib.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}