{"id":246,"date":"2020-10-17T22:28:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T22:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferbairos\/?p=246"},"modified":"2020-10-17T22:28:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T22:28:34","slug":"whenignoranceisbliss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferbairos\/2020\/10\/17\/whenignoranceisbliss\/","title":{"rendered":"When Ignorance is Bliss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferbairos\/files\/2020\/10\/student-865073_1920.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-250\" src=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferbairos\/files\/2020\/10\/student-865073_1920.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferbairos\/files\/2020\/10\/student-865073_1920.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferbairos\/files\/2020\/10\/student-865073_1920-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferbairos\/files\/2020\/10\/student-865073_1920-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferbairos\/files\/2020\/10\/student-865073_1920-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferbairos\/files\/2020\/10\/student-865073_1920-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferbairos\/files\/2020\/10\/student-865073_1920-676x451.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Throughout the summer, I saw a few variations of the tweet, \u201cThis coming September, we are all first-year teachers.\u201d I love the sentiment behind this. We are all entering education faced with challenges not one of us has managed before.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, when school year started, and I was back in the classroom, I couldn\u2019t shake the pressure I felt. I have been constantly asking myself questions like:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAm I prioritizing the right curriculum?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre my remote learners feeling connected? Am I giving them enough attention?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWill my students be ready for high school?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>etc etc etc<\/p>\n<p>Last week, I saw this tweet, and it captured how I have been feeling perfectly.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A lot of ppl have said this is like being a 1st yr teacher again \u2014 yes, &, I\u2019d add it\u2019s actually harder at least at 22 I was completely clueless and knew zero things. THIS experience is feeling like that while also knowing how to do SO MUCH BETTER than I\u2019m able.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Meredith White (@PRHSspanish) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PRHSspanish\/status\/1314210586603864072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 8, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Teaching is strenuous when we are always feeling, \u201cIf I could only ______\u201d.\u00a0 As experienced educators, we no longer have that early teaching blissful ignorance.<\/p>\n<p>My students and I are finding a groove that works for us, and I have to trust that it\u2019s enough. I have to have faith in the fact that I\u2019m not a novice teacher, and that I can use my experience to make the right choices for my students with the circumstances I am given.<\/p>\n<p>Jenn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the summer, I saw a few variations of the tweet, \u201cThis coming September, we are all first-year teachers.\u201d I love the sentiment behind this. We are all entering education faced with challenges not one of us has managed before. Yet, when school year started, and I was back in the classroom, I couldn\u2019t shake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classroom-reflections","category-pandemic-pedagogy","category-teacher-life","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferbairos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferbairos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferbairos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferbairos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferbairos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferbairos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferbairos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferbairos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferbairos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jenniferbairos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}