I need some project ideas for me to work on with a nine year old Spanish boy. [more inside]
posted on May 31, 2008 - 1 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 on Sep 3, 2007 - 17 answers

A question about differentiation/grouping for teachers, administrators and parents in current education programs. [more inside]
posted on Aug 23, 2006 - 5 answers

How to best teach children memory techniques to remember long numbers? I'm talking of mnemo techniques where you associate pictures to numbers. Like a wheel represents 0, a candle represents 1, a swan represents 2, etc. I know how to learn these as an adult, but are there any strategies adapted to children?
posted on Apr 19, 2006 - 5 answers

How to teach my child a foreign language (English)? [more inside]
posted on Jan 29, 2006 - 21 answers

What's your experience skiing with children? I'm planning to take my class of fifth graders to the local ski area in February, a grand fieldtrip indeed, and a first for me as a teacher. As I compose the parent-letter this afternoon, I'm wondering if AskMe readers have any tips, advice, etc. for making such an experience comprehensible to non-skiing parents and, moreover, thoroughly enjoyable for a crew of non-skiing 10-11 year olds. [mi]
posted on Dec 9, 2004 - 19 answers

Deaf-blind question. I ask only out of curiosity, but google turns up academic stuff that's above my head. How are deaf-blind children taught? What level of communication can they attain? Does being mute make a difference? Do we know what life is like inside a mind that has only touch/taste/smell senses of the world?

I'm thinking mainly of those who are born deaf and blind.
posted on Feb 26, 2004 - 4 answers