{"id":133,"date":"2016-09-22T11:48:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T15:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbaghela\/?p=133"},"modified":"2016-09-22T11:49:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T15:49:42","slug":"committing-to-your-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbaghela\/2016\/09\/22\/committing-to-your-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Committing to Your Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/1600\/presidents\/theodoreroosevelt\">President\u00a0Theodore Roosevelt<\/a> once said, &#8220;Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at <em>work worth doing<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In my experience, students struggle with finding value and\/or relevance in the work they are asked to complete while in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion, it is the job of an effective teacher to be able to help students see the value and\/or relevance in what we are doing in class. At the same time, an effective student needs to open their minds to welcome those opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>An effective student TRUSTS that the teacher knows the whys (PURPOSE) and the whats (CONTENT), and an effective teacher is able to guide students through the hows (ANALYSIS\/PROCESS).<\/p>\n<p>Students, please trust your teachers &#8211; and have an open mind.<\/p>\n<p>It will be worth it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clipartkid.com\/images\/331\/2014-college-career-readiness-fair-7iW92V-clipart.jpg\">in the end<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President\u00a0Theodore Roosevelt once said, &#8220;Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbaghela\/2016\/09\/22\/committing-to-your-education\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Committing to Your Education<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1798,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbaghela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbaghela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbaghela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbaghela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1798"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbaghela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbaghela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbaghela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbaghela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbaghela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}