ESL teaching for non-professional teachers! Help me teach native Farsi speakers with intermediate to advanced spoken English skills how to write grammatically correct business English. Example correspondence and other documents needed. [more inside]
posted on Jun 29, 2008 - 5 answers

Help! How do I face my employer and students when I've really f*cked up! [more inside]
posted on Mar 18, 2008 - 21 answers

I'm going to be teaching less-than-enthusiastic students; help me keep their respect and attention. [more inside]
posted on Jan 20, 2008 - 18 answers

I'm posting this on behalf of a teacher friend of mine who wants your ideas: A university is developing an initiative in which pairs of professors, across disciplines, will meet up with small groups of first year students during their second semester to discuss themes of interest and promote intellectual engagement. These informal meetings will occur at least four times over a couple of months and can take place anywhere: in seminar rooms, in a dorm lounge, at a restaurant, at a professor's home, at an art gallery. So, what do we call these? [more inside]
posted on Oct 3, 2007 - 23 answers

Musicians -- how do you attract students? [more inside]
posted on Sep 26, 2007 - 13 answers

Excel Wizards (or Apprentices, Probably) Grading is upon me again and there's something I've always wanted to do in Excel automatically -- from a range of values, drop the lowest N values and average the rest. [more inside]
posted on Dec 19, 2005 - 7 answers

How do you get high school students to do their homework? [more inside]
posted on Oct 7, 2005 - 31 answers