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Tag Archives: teacher
New Podcast on Psychology, Inspiration, Blogging, and Music is Up :: The Damien Riley Podcast
September 1, 2009 – 7:12 pm
Teacher, What Page?
April 3, 2009 – 3:06 pm
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This is a short anecdote. I told it to my mother-in-law and she suggested I blog it . . . so here goes, for Kathy’s sake:
The other day I had a migraine at work. I’m a 3rd grade public school teacher in California, and migraines are not 100% conducive to working with 30 kids. Nonetheless, [...]
Teaching, Inspiration, and Rock 'n Roll
April 3, 2009 – 2:07 pm
The world is so full of boring people. It’s important for leaders, teachers, writers, performers, and artists to share an influence that is NOT boring with this starved-for-passion world.
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.
Test Flight Simulator, Let it Soar
November 20, 2008 – 11:00 am
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I am thrilled today. All 3 classes of our 4th grade level scored very highly on an important test. As a team we didn’t fare as well last time so we got together and discussed some new techniques with our teaching. One thing we decided to adopt was a “test flight [...]
Managing with Electronic To-Do Lists
October 23, 2008 – 6:00 am
Rememberthemilk.com is an excellent resource for teachers and anyone who works with deadlines. It is a task management site where you register to keep all your important “to-do” lists there. Beyond that, there are many little features that make keeping your priorities a blast! I integrate it into my igoogle page and I have the [...]
Professional Learning Communities – Worth the Effort
September 13, 2008 – 12:53 pm
Professional learning communities are revolutionizing teaching. We are learning at my school how powerful it can be when teachers work together. Unfortunately, it does require a lot of patience and work to make happen.
Know When to Say No
September 9, 2008 – 5:45 pm
Teachers are bombarded with requests by parents and administration as well as fellow colleagues who request projects and time from you. It can be overwhelming. If you have trouble with boundaries and guarding your space, you can get eaten alive by all there is to do? So how do you know what to do? Base [...]
Aging Expedition
September 4, 2008 – 2:07 pm
Today’s concept: “Why we fear aging.” I suppose a better title would be “Why DO we fear aging” but I really don’t know. In many ways, aging is a thrill. I had a kid tell me today he found a synonym for “journey,” it was the expedition. I was really proud of that student for [...]