{"id":6696,"date":"2018-01-11T21:11:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T21:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrsphysics.co.uk\/blog\/?p=612"},"modified":"2025-11-25T07:37:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:37:57","slug":"teaching-in-the-21-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/01\/11\/teaching-in-the-21-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching in the 21 Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been teaching for a long time now, longer than the probationer has been alive, but every year teachers get more and more tired and it isn&#8217;t because I&#8217;m too old. We&#8217;ve been back six days and already there has been tears from people with too much on their plate and too many students who need the teacher&#8217;s time if they are to do their best: time we don&#8217;t really have.<\/p>\n<p>To the teachers who work hard all year, and often don&#8217;t have time to even go to the loo or eat dinner or grab a bite to eat I say&#8230;. this one is for you<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/free.timeanddate.com\/countdown\/i62bq1d8\/n90\/cf110\/cm0\/cu4\/ct5\/cs0\/ca0\/cr0\/ss0\/cacff0\/cpcff0\/pc666\/tcfff\/fs150\/szw448\/szh189\/tatD%26G%20Summer%20Holidays\/tacff0\/tptHappy%20Holidays\/tpc0f0\/matstart%20in%20.....\/mac000\/mptwell%20deserved%20break\/mpc9f0\/iso2018-06-29T15:30:00\/bas3\/bacff0\" width=\"454\" height=\"195\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To those who chose the school holiday dates I say&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Please take careful note to monitor the sickness and stress rate of your staff. Teaching is not a 09:00-15:30 job! \u00a0You need to take care of the workforce and put their interest at heart.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been teaching for a long time now, longer than the probationer has been alive, but every year teachers get more and more tired and it isn&#8217;t because I&#8217;m too old. We&#8217;ve been back six days and already there has been tears from people with too much on their plate and too many students who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[878],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[1267],"class_list":["post-6696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teachingphysics","vs-blog blog-single wow fadeInUp"],"acf":[],"authors":[{"term_id":1267,"user_id":3,"is_guest":0,"slug":"n5","display_name":"Mrs Physics","avatar_url":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/OK-scaled.png","author_category":"","first_name":"Mrs","last_name":"Physics","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8343,"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6696\/revisions\/8343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6696"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=6696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}