Tag Archives: school

Links to Lesson Plans and Teaching Tips

February 14, 2009 – 3:34 pm

A collection of links meant to inspire and help teachers make excellent, effective lessons.

By Damien Riley | Posted in Teaching | Also tagged Amazing teachers, innovative teaching, issues in education, links for teachers, online teaching respurces, teacher, teaching resources | Comments (0)

Three Tools to Make Lesson Plans

January 3, 2009 – 8:30 pm

The question for a new teacher then becomes: How do I think of, create, and deliver dynamic lesson plans? In this post I give you three tools, there are many many others, to do just that.

By Damien Riley | Posted in Teaching | Also tagged edi, Education, Innovation in Teaching, lesson, lesson plan, lesson plans, objective, Plan, standard, state, strategies, system, target | Comments (1)

Behavior Problems: Whatever Works?

August 25, 2008 – 1:06 pm

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I was just talking to a friend who has worked as an administrator in Compton and other places. We were discussing middle school kids and the best course of action with the really tough nuts to crack. I told him about my summer and the 8th grade classes I labored through and [...]

By Damien Riley | Posted in Teaching | Also tagged administrator, behavior, behavior problems, compton, lesson, lesson plan, middle school kids, problems, snake oil | Comments (0)

I Needed to Get Out Tonight

August 13, 2008 – 7:34 pm

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Today I had a rough first day back at work. I’m a 4th grade teacher in California and my school just put new carpet in my room. As a result, I had to take every item out of storage and rearrange all my things from the heaviest desks to the minutiae of staples. [...]

By Damien Riley | Posted in Self Improvement | Also tagged California, daunting task, pizza, teacher, vignette, Work | Comments (0)

Back to Teaching 2008-2009

August 12, 2008 – 9:31 pm

Tomorrow I go back to teaching for the new school-year.  I expect to encounter some brick walls here and there and I look forward to the opportunity to get through them or over them as the case may be.  I also expect the joy of fostering learning in my 30-35 fourth graders.  It is a [...]

By Damien Riley | Posted in Teaching | Also tagged brick walls, Classroom, journey, next generation, opportunity, personal goal, school year, Teaching | Comments (3)

8 Back to School Tips from a Teacher

August 8, 2008 – 5:44 pm

Okay so I have 4 days until I go back to work setting up my classroom. The kids come the following week. There is a lot of obvious stuff to grab at the grocery store discount aisle but then there are those essentials that the average parent may not think of. Here [...]

By Damien Riley | Posted in Teaching | Also tagged back to school, Classroom, Essentials, fighting, following rules, parenting, scenarios | Comments (5)

Potential Offense

June 27, 2008 – 5:30 pm

I have a job where I am constantly second guessing things I can say and examples I can give as to their apporpriateness.  I teach 9 year olds.  Through the years I have learned that humor can open up closed minds to learning so I have many “rated G” stories I apply to lessons when [...]

By Damien Riley | Posted in Health, Inspiration, Psychology | Also tagged Eric Stefani, kid, learning, No Doubt, Simpsons, Teaching | Comments (0)

Being the Hope our Youth Needs

June 20, 2008 – 6:15 am

Driving home from the ball game tonight my wife and I nearly hit a 10 year old kid on his bike. He decided he would play chicken with our multi-ton minivan. Needless to say we honked. What the hell is happening with the youth of today? I know they have been [...]

By Damien Riley | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged death, high school, humanity, juvenile delinquency, kid, middle school, youth | Comments (0)

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