{"id":1342,"date":"2019-06-11T20:20:26","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T12:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/?p=1342"},"modified":"2019-06-11T20:57:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T12:57:02","slug":"a-teacher-or-a-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/a-teacher-or-a-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"A teacher?  Or a hero?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">I have been thinking about this long time ago since I was doing my masters at IIUM.\u00a0 I had a chance to be supervised by a great mentor who teaches me about value and ethics.\u00a0 I learn that from him.\u00a0 Taking several classes under his tutelage was a privilege that I will cherish for the rest of my life.\u00a0 I would email him quite regularly when I have qualms about my teaching practice.\u00a0 I would always get a straight-to-the-face kind of answer.\u00a0 No filter.\u00a0 Nothing.\u00a0 It always serves as a reminder why I am in this profession.\u00a0 He had retired now.\u00a0 No email.\u00a0 Just occasional Whatsapp message.\u00a0 But, it helps me to feel better when I am feeling blue.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/743\/2019\/06\/yedullah-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1345\" src=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/743\/2019\/06\/yedullah-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Now, I am no longer have the privilege to email him like I used to do.\u00a0 He rarely checks his email.\u00a0 With a younger wife, he is pretty much preoccupied with his retirement life.\u00a0 So, I normally will find motivational videos about teaching.\u00a0 One of my favorites is a TED talk by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SFnMTHhKdkw\">Rita Pierson<\/a>.\u00a0 She passed away not long after giving the TED talk.\u00a0 To know more about her, this is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/student-teacher-relationships_b_3203159\">one<\/a> of the articles written about why it is important for teachers to know their students better in order to make impact on their lives.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been thinking about this long time ago since I was doing my masters at IIUM.\u00a0 I had a chance to be supervised by a great mentor who teaches me about value and ethics.\u00a0 I learn that from him.\u00a0 Taking several classes under his tutelage was a privilege that I will cherish for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/a-teacher-or-a-hero\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A teacher?  Or a hero?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":851,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-rambling","category-teaching","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1348,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions\/1348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}