Your suggestions about questions brought to mind a website I came across many moons ago, and found it really useful (especially in my teaching). It's called The Questioning Toolkit: http://www.fno.org/nov97/toolkit.html
Jul 27, 2022·edited Jul 27, 2022Liked by Mark Dykeman
Gosh, tonnes to think about here - thank you Mark for such a thought-provoking post!
I love the idea of 100 questions - might take me a while....
Like you I feel that curiosity and lifelong learning are essential to a fulfilling life. Your French immersion programme sounds amazing - what a great experience! I tried to brush up on my very rusty A-level French during the first UK Covid lockdown - at the time I was looking into retraining as a modern languages teacher, and although I have German as a second language I was required to have excellent skills in a second foreign language too. I really enjoyed the online French courses I was doing, but determined pretty quickly that they were useless compared to the way I'd learned German, which was by living my everyday life speaking, thinking and DOING the language.
I've been very disappointed every time I've tried da Vinci's mirror writing. Not easy for a left-hander, as in our case mirror writing requires the dominant side to be writing backwards! I've tried crossing my arms - I'll leave you to imagine how well that went!
Lots of great ideas here that I'd like to put into practice, especially the 100/10 questions. Saving this post for reference. I think I'll come back to this often. Thanks, Mark!
Your suggestions about questions brought to mind a website I came across many moons ago, and found it really useful (especially in my teaching). It's called The Questioning Toolkit: http://www.fno.org/nov97/toolkit.html
Gosh, tonnes to think about here - thank you Mark for such a thought-provoking post!
I love the idea of 100 questions - might take me a while....
Like you I feel that curiosity and lifelong learning are essential to a fulfilling life. Your French immersion programme sounds amazing - what a great experience! I tried to brush up on my very rusty A-level French during the first UK Covid lockdown - at the time I was looking into retraining as a modern languages teacher, and although I have German as a second language I was required to have excellent skills in a second foreign language too. I really enjoyed the online French courses I was doing, but determined pretty quickly that they were useless compared to the way I'd learned German, which was by living my everyday life speaking, thinking and DOING the language.
I've been very disappointed every time I've tried da Vinci's mirror writing. Not easy for a left-hander, as in our case mirror writing requires the dominant side to be writing backwards! I've tried crossing my arms - I'll leave you to imagine how well that went!
Lots of great ideas here that I'd like to put into practice, especially the 100/10 questions. Saving this post for reference. I think I'll come back to this often. Thanks, Mark!
You wrote, "Emotional intelligence is extremely available in both your personal and professional lives.". Did you mean 'valuable'?