20 things you can only appreciate if you are a teacher
You have to take good, bad and bizarre!
Teachers are all the unknown heroes of the parent and the child. These are therapists, mediators, nurses, mentors, guards and many more. Frankly, many teachers should be on at least three different employees. But often, educators do not receive the credit they deserve. According toWall Street newspaperIn 2018, American teachers left their jobs at the highest rate recorded for the profession. So, what drives the educators of the classroom en masse? Well, in addition to the inadequate wage and overwhelming stress, a report of 2019 byPDK International Indicated that teachers often leave because they generally feel respected and / or undervalued.
So, in the spirit of appreciation, here is a ruin of the daily, bad and generally strange daily experiences that only teachers will understand. Let's hope it will make you a little more empathic to their difficult situation.
1 Eating tons of bakery products
Nothing is worth a cool saucepan of Brownies! And while someparents Can have subsequent motivations to bring you their best Betty Crocker kiss, you can not buy (although you certainly appreciate the fruits of their work).
2 To put teach brothers and sisters
Much of being a teacher is that you learn to educate brothers and sisters. When you see a familiar name on your list, you may be filled with a feeling of fear, joy or more often than the curiosity of seeing how the two are alike and differentiate them. The good news is that you come a little more prepared and that the real estate books in class, especially, raised by the older generation sometimes will sometimes find your class in the hands of the youngest. In addition, you can see who is better at Doodle Graffiti!
3 The importance of school pets
The true heroes of primary education and college are school pets. These unnamed rodents and reptiles do hard work to provide your students with the unconditional company they need and invaluable lessons on responsibility. School animals, we salute you!
4 Pick up the relay of other teachers
Say that you teach Algebra II and the Algebra that the teacher of the previous yearreally You phoned. Now, your students are not prepared for your career - they might have learned the formulas incorrectly, or not at all, for example - and you are obliged to determine or relearn. But on the side more, you have the extra opportunity to do what you like the most: teach.
5 Hear all kinds of homework excuses
One of the benefits ofTo be a teacher Do you get to look at it: a student did not do his homework and when it's time to let him enter, you let them shoot the classic: "Well, my dog ate it." At first, they are encouraged by your active listening, but there is then the delicious moment - about 85 seconds in the moment they realize that you know the truth.
This is one of those moments that is equally teaching for the teacher as for the student. Are you going to use them as an example and eventually honor them in front of the class? Or will you practice leniency and talk to them after the bell?
6 Calling students to send SMS in the classroom
It's always preferable when they try to be chic. We seeThis iPhone Under your office!
7 Detect false injuries in the classroom
Each teacher knows this student: who who hinders in the classroom and who saw "quiz" is written on the board, realizes that they need to see the nurse. At once.
8 Follow the energy levels constantly evolving students
During your first class, your students have trouble staying awake. In the third period, they bounce walls. All they feed them at lunch time, it strikes systematically - and it strikeshard.
9 To repeat for this student who refuses to listen to the instructions
The limit does not exist!
10 Write letters of recommendation (no matter who they are for)
There are these students that you are of course happy to recommend, then there are students who believe you would be happy to recommend them because you have chosen never to hate the student, just the unique problematic behavior of the student. Both get letters - we just go a little brighter.
11 Treat with unreasonable browser restrictions
You have found the ideal website for your course plan, but you discover during the eleventh hour that there has been a new set of browser restrictions set overnight. So, this truly informative website that you were going to show your students? Yes, it is blocked. (Teachers notified, for the record, appreciate having a pal that can help them bypass these firewalls - when it is appropriate, of course!)
12 These Cringworthy screen sharing calamities
Nobody will disagree that computers are an invaluable class resource. Most of the time, they really facilitate student learning and significant discussion. However, they can also create problems. Case case: sharing the screen. Your students are on their laptops and you call one of them to show their work to the class on the large screen at the front of the room. However, after placing the student on site, the Share screen shows Major No-No: one of those sites that he recently prohibited. Whoops!
13 Frustration of unreliable online quality books
At first, you thought your book of online rating was a deity. It does all mathematics for you, it is easy to use and considerably reduces the time needed to enter the notes. That you didnot Knowing was what a Fickle beast can be. All you need is a major accident and a Saturday afternoon spent reappearing the notes for all 200 of your students - to come back to a good OLE paper system.
14 Choose your battles with budgeting
Say, for example, you place an order for a new pack of Hardcover editions of the book that your class is reading and the finances change the command to the cheapest option: paperback. At the end of the semester, the books are in rags - and it's just something you need to live as a teacher.
15 Wait forever so that maintenance requests come through
You have set up an application in August for this fire alarm light to be corrected. At the moment when the maintenance personnel have touched me, however, you and your class are totally desensitized to that. After a few such mosquito nets, you learn to take this deadline into account in all your requests.
16 The struggle of students who do not know how to recycle
The recycling tray could not be labeled more clearly, but the bunch of waste at its base could not be bigger! This seemingly simple task is apparently very difficult for students to seize.
17 Odor of body smell daily
A student standing next to you at an assembly suddenly raises his arm to sign a friend approaching. Hormones, Man ...
18 To be left to the left of the appreciation emails at the faculty level
You receiveA touching email Administrative persons thank you for your hard work, your dedication, your patience, your pressure under pressure, your tireless efforts, your ... and you notice that the message applies to kindergarten through the second year teachers. Of course, they really won. But you have so much!
19 The joy of a student finally gets him
Sometimes a student can be wildly disruptive - and sometimes their behavior can turn into a golden moment. Whether it's something social ("we do not say that, Timmy" or educational (Hey,Long division is difficult), few things come better than to see a lesson conferring in real time.
20 You get a first row seat for the biggest image
When you take a step back while you look at your students interact, you recognize that you were not really different when you were at their age, and you suddenly appreciate how far you came. It is an experience that is both humiliating and energizing - and then you put this positive energy directly into the sorting of your online rating book. And if you want to encourage your favorite educator, see these 20 teacher appraisal gifts who are a total A + .
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