{"id":1987,"date":"2020-09-09T09:35:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T13:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/?p=1987"},"modified":"2020-09-09T09:35:42","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T13:35:42","slug":"what-teaching-cegep-online-has-taught-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/all-news\/what-teaching-cegep-online-has-taught-me\/","title":{"rendered":"What Teaching CEGEP Online Has Taught Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"published-by\"><span class=\"published-by__author\">Monique Polak<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"published-by\"><span class=\"published-by__publication\">Special to The Montreal Gazette<\/span><\/div>\n<div><br style=\"clear:both;\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Ever since I was little, I have had trouble sleeping the night before school starts. It was never because I was nervous, only because I was excited. I was one of those kids who happened to love school. It\u2019s probably why I became a teacher.<\/p>\n<p>This year was different. I couldn\u2019t sleep because for the first time in my 34-year career at Marianopolis College. I was dreading going back to school. I was especially dreading teaching fully online \u2014 the situation for most CEGEP and university teachers this semester. Though I know I should be grateful that, unlike my colleagues who teach younger students, I\u2019m able to work from home, I knew I\u2019d miss everything I love most about my work. And those are, in many ways, the intangibles. How this time last year, a boy named Hou Han nodded and smiled on the first day of class when I talked about the value of curiosity. How some students linger after class, to ask questions or tell me something that isn\u2019t always strictly about school. Even how I catch a kid texting \u2014 or looking longingly out the window on a sunny afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/opinion\/opinion-what-teaching-cegep-online-has-taught-me\/wcm\/0aa6b731-ecd8-45c4-93c2-35f9b68e8cc0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monique Polak Special to The Montreal Gazette Ever since I was little, I have had trouble sleeping the night before school starts. It was never because I was nervous, only because I was excited. I was one of those kids who happened to love school. It\u2019s probably why I became a teacher. This year was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":1988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,62],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-1987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-distance-learning","tag-online-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1990,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions\/1990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}