{"id":36,"date":"2025-06-12T19:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T19:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markpopinchalk.com\/?page_id=36"},"modified":"2025-09-19T20:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T20:34:07","slug":"teaching-mentoring","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/markpopinchalk.com\/?page_id=36","title":{"rendered":"Teaching and Mentoring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/markpopinchalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/25-0222-613-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41\" style=\"width:257px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/markpopinchalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/25-0222-613-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/markpopinchalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/25-0222-613-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/markpopinchalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/25-0222-613-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/markpopinchalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/25-0222-613-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/markpopinchalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/25-0222-613-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/markpopinchalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/25-0222-613-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">NYU 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/markpopinchalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Mark_snake_SNP-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40\" style=\"width:283px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/markpopinchalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Mark_snake_SNP-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/markpopinchalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Mark_snake_SNP-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/markpopinchalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Mark_snake_SNP-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/markpopinchalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Mark_snake_SNP.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">AMNH 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve inherited an educator gene from my parents, and find great joy in sharing what I have learned. I think of teachers not as fonts of knowledge, but stewards of it, and that the act of teaching can be just as important as the content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have over a decade of both classroom and informal educator experience. This includes in the Center for Family Learning program at AMNH, as an adjunct professor at NYU, and as a mentor to 7 (soon to be 8!) cohorts of high school students in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnh.org\/learn-teach\/teens\/science-research-mentoring-program\">Science Research and Mentor Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve inherited an educator gene from my parents, and find great joy in sharing what I have learned. I think of teachers not as fonts of knowledge, but stewards of it, and that the act of teaching can be just as important as the content. I have over a decade of both classroom and informal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-36","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markpopinchalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markpopinchalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markpopinchalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markpopinchalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markpopinchalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/markpopinchalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/markpopinchalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markpopinchalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}