{"id":4754,"date":"2020-03-26T10:29:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T18:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/?p=4754"},"modified":"2020-03-26T10:29:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T18:29:32","slug":"if-i-were-in-your-shoes-from-jim-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/2020\/03\/26\/if-i-were-in-your-shoes-from-jim-b\/","title":{"rendered":"If I were in your shoes&#8230;from Jim B"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dear Teachers,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has been 24 years since I had my own classroom (and remember it fondly!) and much has changed in how teaching is delivered. However, there are some things that I believe are essential for any teacher to communicate at this time (that I am totally stealing from\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tolerance.org\/magazine\/a-trauma-informed-approach-to-teaching-through-coronavirus?utm_source=Teaching+Tolerance&amp;utm_campaign=95fa0b600a-Newsletter+3-24-2020&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_a8cea027c3-95fa0b600a-101036973\" target=\"_blank\">an article that was recently shared with me<\/a>): Look at the end of this year (or maybe start with the next month) and determine (as a team\/department\/PLC would be better than individually) what the really big rocks of learning are. The really big ones \u2013 not medium or small \u2013 but the essential. I\u2019d then determine how I\u2019d want to teach these to students in a fun and creative way. All the while, I would be thinking of the following things as priorities in my interactions with my students (taken from the linked article): establishing a routine and maintaining clear communication; relationships and well-being take priority over assignment completion\/compliance (how might I build relationships in ways with students now, that I may have been hindered to do in a classroom setting); and how might I foster a sense of safety, connectedness, and hope during this time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">~Jim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Teachers, It has been 24 years since I had my own classroom (and remember it fondly!) and much has changed in how teaching is delivered. However, there are some things that I believe are essential for any teacher to <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/2020\/03\/26\/if-i-were-in-your-shoes-from-jim-b\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  If I were in your shoes&#8230;from Jim B<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stc_notifier_status":"sent","_stc_notifier_sent_time":"2020-03-26 11:15:11","_stc_notifier_request":false,"_stc_notifier_prevent":false,"_stc_subscriber_keywords":"","_stc_subscriber_search_areas":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/281"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4755,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4754\/revisions\/4755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}