{"id":12305,"date":"2014-09-30T01:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T06:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/?p=12305"},"modified":"2014-10-01T21:24:11","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T02:24:11","slug":"teaching-september-30-2014-daily-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/teaching-september-30-2014-daily-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching, September 30, 2014 Daily Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Teaching.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12307\" src=\"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Teaching.png\" alt=\"Teaching\" width=\"291\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a>As I write this I am tired from grading projects, tests, homework and other papers for the last 5 hours straight! I am going to be completely honest here: TEACHING IS TIME CONSUMING, CHALLENGING AND TAXING! However, it is also a way to love others outside of your family unconditionally, to plant the seeds of hope in many young minds and a satisfying feeling that you might just guide a person in their life. It is difficult when grading and planning but fun when executing the plan and seeing the face of a person who finally &#8220;gets&#8221; that idea for the very first time.<!--more--> It is more than a job because you don&#8217;t leave your work at work. You take it home with you into your personal life, if you really love your students. Teaching is a calling. There is no doubt about it. I hope to never meet a teacher without passion, drive and love for their students.<\/p>\n<p>I asked a teacher a few years ago, while I was discerning the call of being a teacher, the most important thing I should remember about teaching from her own experience. She thought for a moment and with a smile replied, &#8220;Just love them. That&#8217;s the most important thing to do. Just love them.&#8221; I turned from her thinking what kind of advice is that. Now that I have been teaching for more than a year I completely understand. As a teacher we just love them and everything else we do follows as acts of love for our students.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, teaching it&#8217;s a calling!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teaching&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[473,931,270],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}