Questions from the back of the card: teaching

the interesting idea... the start of this project... the conversations to come

I'm a member of Post Crossing, the internet site for postcard exchange. I sent a card to another Post Crosser, Ilona from Germany. She asked that people tell her which magical power they would like to have. Her question really made me think!

In turn, I thought it would be an interesting project to ask people to pose Thought-Provoking Questions. I would do my best to answer with my opinion, and I would encourage others to add theirs.

And, so was born this blog! I hope that it will be the home for many interesting conversations in the year ahead!

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Monday, May 9, 2011

Not so much, no...

From Hong Kong comes this earnest inquiry:

Do primary and secondary school teachers enjoy high social status in the USA?

Wouldn't it be lovely if they did?

Just pondering this question made me remember several of my teachers. Thanks, Miss Henion, Mrs Short, and particularly Miss DeFreese for "not catching" me reading my story books when I should have been reading my text books!

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Each one, teach one

A question that makes me smile...

If you had to teach something, what would you teach?

It makes me smile because... I AM a teacher!

Besides the language skills I already teach, I would teach tolerance.

(The Latvian language on the card says (according to Google)
"national language of fairy tale about the mud." The sender of the card translates the words as "the fairy tale of the state wins over all the dirt." Both idiomatic expressions of something inscrutable, I think.)