{"id":4576,"date":"2014-09-22T16:16:24","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T21:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/?p=4576"},"modified":"2014-09-22T16:16:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T21:16:45","slug":"alumni-profile-danika-epp-cmu-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/2014\/alumni-profile-danika-epp-cmu-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Profile: Danika Epp (CMU &#8217;14)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alumna Danika Epp draws on her faith and examples set by role models she\u2019s found at CMU and in her personal life to develop her own teaching style.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4577\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Danika-Epp-Alumni-Profile-photo.jpg\" alt=\"Danika Epp Alumni Profile photo\" width=\"206\" height=\"119\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Currently studying education at the University of Manitoba, Epp credits the strong community aspect of CMU with enabling teachers to be close to and available for their students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe professors put a lot of effort into making sure that each student has a relationship with them,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in spring 2014, Epp\u2019s major in History and double minor in English and Biblical Studies enabled her to study a wide range of subjects taught by a variety of professors. She says this broad knowledge base will help her as a teacher.<\/p>\n<p>Growing up, Epp was taught by a number of family members, including her mother and father. Inspired by the way her parents taught, she appreciates it when her parents\u2019 former students tell her how helpful they were as teachers.<\/p>\n<p>Sharing her parents\u2019 love of teaching, Epp hopes to help students in a similar way. \u201cI want to help people find where they want to go and share my joy and knowledge with them,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Epp also draws on her faith when envisioning the type of teacher she would like to be. She says that being a teacher requires loving one\u2019s neighbour, withholding judgment, and being patient.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy faith helps me be the Jesus-like teacher,\u201d she says. \u201cI try and remember to be a servant.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alumna Danika Epp draws on her faith and examples set by role models she\u2019s found at CMU and in her personal life to develop her own teaching style. Currently studying education at the University of Manitoba, Epp credits the strong community aspect of CMU with enabling teachers to be close to and available for their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[171,156],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4579,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4576\/revisions\/4579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}