{"id":263,"date":"2016-11-26T05:08:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T05:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.soe.umich.edu\/a2lp\/?p=263"},"modified":"2017-01-06T04:35:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T04:35:05","slug":"study-abroad-experience-arianna-dixon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/a2lp\/study-abroad-experience-arianna-dixon\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Abroad Experience &#8211; Arianna Dixon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bam. There I found myself, over twenty minutes late, in front of a classroom of 20+ Spaniards, all of whom were older than me, and zero idea as to what the lesson plan for the day was. On my first day on the job, I had not idea what I was getting into, teaching English at a non-profit in Madrid, but I did not expect to step in front of a classroom, alone, the moment that I walked in the door. That day, I had to teach a three hour English lesson, and I would have never made it through that lesson if it had not been for the skills that I had gained from my experiences with A2LP. In front of the classroom, I was able to compose myself, despite being 100% out of my element, and pull of a class that I had no idea I was even teaching. I adapted my teaching style that I utilized to teach Spanish to my third graders, and transformed it to fit teaching English to adults. That day reminded me what teaching was, a continual game of learning and adapting, and A2LP is what helped me present and teach that lesson on my very first day of teaching abroad<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/a2lp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/11\/Arianna-Dixon.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-275\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/a2lp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/11\/Arianna-Dixon-242x300.png\" alt=\"arianna-dixon\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/a2lp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/11\/Arianna-Dixon-242x300.png 242w, https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/a2lp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/11\/Arianna-Dixon.png 244w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bam. There I found myself, over twenty minutes late, in front of a classroom of 20+ Spaniards, all of whom were older than me, and zero idea as to what the lesson plan for the day was. On my first day on the job, I had not idea what I was getting into, teaching English&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/a2lp\/study-abroad-experience-arianna-dixon\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Study Abroad Experience &#8211; Arianna Dixon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-blog","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/a2lp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/a2lp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/a2lp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/a2lp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/a2lp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/a2lp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/a2lp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/a2lp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/a2lp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/a2lp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}