My partner is doing her Ph.D in English but is starting to think she wants to teach elementary or high school. We're in Canada. We've got questions about the job market, location, and the benefits and burdens of getting the Ph.D. [more inside]
posted by Beardman on Feb 8, 2011 - 7 answers

Elementary school teacher: Kindergarten - Grade 2, or Grade 4 - Grade 7? [more inside]
posted by johnsmith415 on Jun 14, 2010 - 7 answers

I have a friend who is an excellent but fairly new (2 years experience) teacher now teaching 1st-graders in a poor inner-city school. She finds that they are lethargic, often barely able to keep awake, and hardly respond to her. Are there any great books/articles she should be reading? [more inside]
posted by shivohum on Sep 3, 2007 - 17 answers

For elementary school teachers, is tenure transferable to other districts/states? [more inside]
posted by bDiddy on Apr 18, 2007 - 7 answers

A K-12 school I am involved in wants to be able to publish digital portfolios of student work on the web. As to additional functionality (i.e. Commenting on work, Blogging) I'm open to proposals. Since the budget doesn't allow us to pay someone to hack apache and write code we're looking for an out of the box solution. I believe that Userland's Manila would let me do this at least in part - are there any other solutions I can be looking at?
posted by dhacker on Dec 9, 2003 - 5 answers