{"id":72,"date":"2019-02-19T09:06:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T14:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/addis\/?p=72"},"modified":"2019-02-19T09:06:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T14:06:38","slug":"fostering-a-long-lasting-love-of-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/addis\/2019\/02\/19\/fostering-a-long-lasting-love-of-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Fostering a Long-Lasting Love of Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By: Cristie Watson<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is February, and as usual, I love my students. I no longer feel the polite, anxious, and determined love of August, but a more genuine affection that comes from really knowing them. By this point in the year, my students and I have figured each other out. I know their interests, work habits, and personality quirks. They know how to tease me and what questions will prompt me to tell a story. We have established a level of mutual respect, and now we laugh more heartily, grin more frequently, and feel a warmth in the classroom despite the gloomy weather outside.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>So how do we develop a love of teaching that lasts?<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>I&#8217;m certainly no expert<\/em>,<br \/>\nbut I chatted with other veteran educators,<br \/>\nand we each shared many of the same strategies&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.edweek.org\/tm\/articles\/2017\/02\/13\/xctq_love_600.jpg.pagespeed.ic.CICqt9ZiBJ.webp\" width=\"284\" height=\"213\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edweek.org\/tm\/articles\/2017\/02\/14\/fostering-a-long-lasting-love-of-teaching.html?cmp=eml-eb-sub-love-021419&amp;M=58746433&amp;U=1459936&amp;UUID=3f27995b75434339e5304619ec15d461\"><strong>LINK:<\/strong> continue at edweek blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Cristie Watson It is February, and as usual, I love my students. I no longer feel the polite, anxious, and determined love of August, but a more genuine affection that comes from really knowing them. By this point in the year, my students and I have figured each other out. I know their interests, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mindset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/addis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/addis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/addis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/addis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/addis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/addis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/addis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/addis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/addis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}