{"id":305,"date":"2016-03-28T15:54:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T15:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/educationalpsychology\/?post_type=chapter&p=305"},"modified":"2016-03-28T15:54:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T15:54:58","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-hvcc-educationalpsychology\/chapter\/introduction\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction","rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"raw":"A teacher named Ashley looked around the classroom, enjoying a blessed moment of quiet after the students left at the end of the day. \u201cAshley, the teacher, that\u2019s me,\u201d she said proudly to the empty room. \u201cBut why am I doing this?\u201d she asked herself quietly\u2014and realized she wasn\u2019t always sure of the answer. But then she remembered one reason: she was teaching for Nadia, who sat at the table to the left, always smiled so well and always (well, usually) tried hard. And another reason: she was teaching for Lincoln, tired old Lincoln, who needed her help more than he realized. She remembered twenty other reasons\u2014twenty other students. And one last reason: she was also teaching for herself, challenging herself to see if she really could keep up with twenty-two young people at once, and really accomplish something worthwhile with them. She was teaching so she could keep growing as a person, keep connecting with others, keep learning new ideas. That\u2019s why she was teaching.","rendered":"

A teacher named Ashley looked around the classroom, enjoying a blessed moment of quiet after the students left at the end of the day. \u201cAshley, the teacher, that\u2019s me,\u201d she said proudly to the empty room. \u201cBut why am I doing this?\u201d she asked herself quietly\u2014and realized she wasn\u2019t always sure of the answer. But then she remembered one reason: she was teaching for Nadia, who sat at the table to the left, always smiled so well and always (well, usually) tried hard. And another reason: she was teaching for Lincoln, tired old Lincoln, who needed her help more than he realized. She remembered twenty other reasons\u2014twenty other students. And one last reason: she was also teaching for herself, challenging herself to see if she really could keep up with twenty-two young people at once, and really accomplish something worthwhile with them. She was teaching so she could keep growing as a person, keep connecting with others, keep learning new ideas. That\u2019s why she was teaching.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t

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