{"id":1451,"date":"2017-04-15T10:18:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T10:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freelanceteacherselfdevelopment.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/15\/the-benefits-of-being-a-guinea-pig\/"},"modified":"2017-04-15T10:18:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T10:18:58","slug":"the-benefits-of-being-a-guinea-pig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/2017\/04\/15\/the-benefits-of-being-a-guinea-pig\/","title":{"rendered":"The Benefits of Being a Guinea Pig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently it feels like I have been taking part in a lot of research projects. I don&#8217;t think I have, not when I sit and count, but it feels like it. It could be a massive pain in the bum but I actually like it.&nbsp;<br \/>\nFor one thing, other people&#8217;s research about teachers and\/or teaching is unlikely to align exactly with one&#8217;s current wondering about teaching. This is likely to cause one to consider one&#8217;s classroom practice, beliefs or CPD process more deeply than before. Another thing is that when you are stating practices or beliefs, you&#8217;re making it coherent because you don&#8217;t want to be &#8220;Well, I don&#8217;t know why.&#8221; Although I am sure that I have screwed up my face on Skype while searching for answers in the back of my mind.&nbsp;<br \/>\nNext time you see a survey circulating on social media, why not have a go. Help build our body of knowledge. And help find the figurative lost bit of jigsaw puzzle of your mind from under the sofa.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently it feels like I have been taking part in a lot of research projects. I don&#8217;t think I have, not when I sit and count, but it feels like it. It could be a massive pain in the bum but I actually like it.&nbsp; For one thing, other people&#8217;s research about teachers and\/or teaching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[11],"tags":[73,256],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa34By-np","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}