{"id":1446,"date":"2017-12-03T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T10:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/?p=1446"},"modified":"2017-11-16T16:56:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T16:56:20","slug":"volunteer-tip-1-be-authentic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/2017\/12\/03\/volunteer-tip-1-be-authentic\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer Tip #1 &#8211; Be Authentic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1475 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/12\/adultwithstudents.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"652\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/12\/adultwithstudents.jpg 652w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/12\/adultwithstudents-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/>As 2017 draws to a close, let&#8217;s look at ways to improve our time spent volunteering in classrooms. First let&#8217;s look at being authentic.<\/p>\n<p>Pre-schoolers through high school age students want people to speak to them with their authentic voices. There&#8217;s no need to speak slowly or with cute comments and gestures. Be yourself. That shows respect for students.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As 2017 draws to a close, let&#8217;s look at ways to improve our time spent volunteering in classrooms. First let&#8217;s look at being authentic. Pre-schoolers through high school age students want people to speak to them with their authentic voices. There&#8217;s no need to speak slowly or with cute comments and gestures. Be yourself. That\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/2017\/12\/03\/volunteer-tip-1-be-authentic\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,301,25,291],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assistant-tips","category-classroom-tips","category-expectations-misbehavior-communication-clarifying-monitoring","category-volunteers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1446"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1476,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions\/1476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}