{"id":681,"date":"2014-09-12T15:05:54","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T19:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/?p=681"},"modified":"2014-09-12T15:05:54","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T19:05:54","slug":"why-we-teach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/why-we-teach\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Teach"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s the little things.<\/p>\n

She’s in fifth grade now. I had her in third grade. We piloted 1:1\u00a0iPads the year she was in my class.<\/p>\n

As a fifth grader, she started her\u00a0year with a Scholastic Extra, Extra, Read All About Me poster<\/a> (as the fifth graders always do). Her teacher sent me this:<\/p>\n

\"photo<\/a>

My hero is my 3rd grade teacher Mr. Schersten. He taught me to have fun but do your work at the same time. He also taught us how to sing to his guitar. He is an amazing runner and he is great with ipads. He is the best teacher ever.<\/p><\/div>\n

To have fun<\/em> and do your work at the same time<\/em>. Yea, let’s do that.<\/p>\n

It’s the little things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s the little things. She’s in fifth grade now. I had her in third grade. We piloted 1:1\u00a0iPads the year she was in my class. As a fifth grader, she started her\u00a0year with a Scholastic Extra, Extra, Read All About … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edchat","category-education","category-elemchat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B5HK-aZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":684,"href":"https:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benschersten.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}