{"id":10422,"date":"2021-04-10T04:06:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T04:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10422"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:02","slug":"i-miss-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10422","title":{"rendered":"I MISS TEACHING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lately I&#8217;ve become aware that I miss teaching.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I mean, I miss teaching the stuff that really matters. The stuff that at least has the potential for being life-changing.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my current classes I focus on critical thinking and reading comprehension and writing skills. All important for life and career &#8211; nobody has to convince me of that.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, ultimately, so what if we grow better able to read and comprehend if we don&#8217;t get to practice with the most important Book of all time?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I remember hearing someone once say about typical American conversations, &#8220;We spend the most time talking about the things that matter the least.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my public school classroom I&#8217;d say, &#8220;We spend the most time talking about things that matter a lot &#8230; but no time talking about the things that matter the most.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that&#8217;s getting to me.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I&#8217;ve become aware that I miss teaching.\u00a0 I mean, I miss teaching the stuff that really matters. The stuff that at least has the potential for being life-changing.\u00a0 In my current classes I focus on critical thinking and reading comprehension and writing skills. All important for life and career &#8211; nobody has to convince [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10423,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10422\/revisions\/10423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}