{"id":228,"date":"2007-03-29T21:26:31","date_gmt":"2007-03-29T21:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=228"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:02:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:02:00","slug":"teachers-who-inspire-and-not-just-the-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=228","title":{"rendered":"Teachers who inspire (and not just the students)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nOne of the most inspiring teachers I&#8217;ve heard speak is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prc.afns.ualberta.ca\/directory\/index.php?page=bio&amp;id=371\">Dr. Frank Robinson<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/\">U of Alberta<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afhe.ualberta.ca\/\">Faculty of Agriculture, Forestry, and Home Economics<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afns.ualberta.ca\/Index.asp?page=News&amp;news=961\">He&#8217;s just won<\/a> one of Canada&#8217;s prestigious national <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcmaster.ca\/3Mteachingfellowships\/index2.html\">3M teaching fellowships<\/a> (faculty from the U of A, by the way, have won more than any other university). Were I back at the U of Alberta, I think I&#8217;d be wanting to sit in on his course on a regular basis just to watch him teach.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/education\/postsecondary\/article.jsp?content=20070322_122546_9712\">article<\/a> about the 3M winners in Macleans magazine made me smile&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"color:#408000;\"><em>A compact, wiry man with a police officer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s moustache, Robinson could be called slight were it not for a quiet, off-the-wall kind of charisma\u00e2\u20ac\u201done that finds expression in asking the sorts of questions that, initially at least, appear to come from the absurdist end of agriculture. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Why do cattle eat their placenta? Do they like the taste or is it peer pressure?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Or try: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Can horses fake pregnancy?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Or: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153How many cows would it take to power your home theatre system?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/span>Congrats, Frank!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most inspiring teachers I&#8217;ve heard speak is Dr. Frank Robinson from the U of Alberta&#8216;s Faculty of Agriculture, Forestry, and Home Economics. He&#8217;s just won one of Canada&#8217;s prestigious national 3M teaching fellowships (faculty from the U of A, by the way, have won more than any other university). Were I back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-and-technology","category-teachingadvising"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}