{"id":5,"date":"2012-10-20T16:17:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T16:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/ruthmcarthur\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2012-10-20T16:17:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T16:17:15","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/ruthmcarthur\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a Math and Biology teacher, certified to teach Grades 4 to 12. Currently I am teaching Math at <a href=\"http:\/\/bss.on.ca\/\">The Bishop Strachan School<\/a> in Toronto, working a wonderful group of Grade 8 girls. I have also taught overseas in Jakarta, Indonesia as well as on board a tall ship with the <a href=\"www.classafloat.com\">Class Afloat<\/a> School. All of these experiences have shown me that my teaching needs to flexible, reflective of my students and most importantly, reflective of who I am and my experiences.<\/p>\n<p>My passion is differentiation in my instruction and assessment, providing students with choices in their learning. I want my students to challenge themselves and learn how to work through obstacles in their academics, knowing that they will be supported. By doing this, I feel that students will be able to experience the joy of learning, constantly pushing themselves to improve and open their eyes to new ideas and opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to hearing ideas, critiques and being apart of conversations to help me improve my practice and the experiences of my students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a Math and Biology teacher, certified to teach Grades 4 to 12. Currently I am teaching Math at The Bishop Strachan School in Toronto, working a wonderful group of Grade 8 girls. I have also taught overseas in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/ruthmcarthur\/about-me\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/ruthmcarthur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/ruthmcarthur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/ruthmcarthur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/ruthmcarthur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/ruthmcarthur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/ruthmcarthur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/ruthmcarthur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}