{"id":801452,"date":"2019-11-17T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=372484"},"modified":"2019-11-17T10:00:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T17:00:09","slug":"best-teacher-9-12-liz-waddick-summit-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/best-teacher-9-12-liz-waddick-summit-high-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Teacher, 9-12: Liz Waddick, Summit High School"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/bos19-teacherHS-SDN-102419-2-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/bos19-teacherHS-SDN-102419-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/bos19-teacherHS-SDN-102419-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/bos19-teacherHS-SDN-102419-2-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>Spanish teacher Liz Waddick engages in conversation in her Summit High School classroom Oct. 3 in Breckenridge.<\/strong><br \/><em>Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Liz Waddick, a Spanish teacher at Summit High School, sees her job as more than teaching Spanish to Summit High juniors to help them get a job \u2014 she sees it as a responsibility to help them become global citizens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI argue that, sure, learning a language might help get a job or get into college,\u201d Waddick said. \u201cBut more than that, it improves your quality of life and opens up entire new experiences and ways of thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Waddick\u2019s approach to teaching Spanish is based in the idea that knowing another language improves people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI approach teaching with the concept of developing caring learners with empathy,\u201d Waddick said. \u201cLanguage is such a big part of that. It helps build community, where people can learn from each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Waddick said her teaching style involves immersing students into the language through \u201cmovement,\u201d including acting scenes out, interviewing each other in Spanish and asking each other interesting questions in the language, such as what hopes and dreams they have.<\/p>\n<p>As far as why she\u2019s a teacher, Waddick said it\u2019s all about helping her students become better people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s a noble profession, and I\u2019m proud to be a teacher,\u201d Waddick said. \u201cI\u2019m proud to get into the classroom every day to help give these kids a life that is of value.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/best-teacher-9-12-liz-waddick-summit-high-school\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish teacher Liz Waddick engages in conversation in her Summit High School classroom Oct. 3 in Breckenridge.Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com Liz Waddick, a Spanish teacher at Summit High School, sees her job as more than teaching Spanish to Summit High juniors to help them get a job \u2014 she sees it as a responsibility to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-801452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 18:05:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}