During my first year teaching, my very first observation, I was so nervous I was trying to ignore the administrator and was praying these jr high kiddos would behave for me. After he left, my kids told me that the whole time he was opening all my desk drawers and was trying to look down my shirt every time I bent down to write something on the overhead🤦🏻♀️
As I’ve said before, I’m an Educational Sign Language Interpreter. When I was observed, my principal told me that I was giving my deaf student answers to the test that the teacher was reading the questions to the class. She said that she wasn’t going to give my student an F for me essentially “cheating” because he is just a child ( 6th grade student for context) and that if she sees me doing it again she will have no choice but to fully discipline me. Here’s my question, if I was giving my student answers to the test, tell me why this kid failed to test 🤬😜🤦🏻♀️
My 3rd year teaching, my principal said that my classroom management hadn’t improved enough over the 3 years I was at that school. She then showed me her observation score sheet and I don’t remember her ever coming into my room to watch me teach the entire year.
One time for an observation, one of my kiddos who was going through some chaos at home came into the room mid observation and starting tearing up the room. There was nothing (inside the room) that precipitated, he just came in and started pushing desks over. My principal turned to me and told me to have the class evacuate the room and she stayed with that kiddo. She asked later if I wanted to redo the observation or keep it, even though it was super short. I just kept it, because I had a really tough class that year. My first 3 years I didn't mind observations at all, it wasn't until I had some tougher behaviors and things less in control that I got nervous for them.
I work at a vet and some appointments dont require seeing a doctor so the owner stays in the lobby while the pet goes to the back and we had an owner sit in the lobby, take her shoes off, and clip her toe nails in the lobby. She left the clippings on the floor and we had to sweep them up. It was gross and appaling. Like how does anyone think thats okay?
I had a similar story to Jess' student teaching observation, only worse. Right before full-takeover, in the middle of student teaching, there was to be a meeting to determine if i was ready, which also used observation scores from me, my cooperating teacher, and my professor. I gave myself 4s on most things with the occasional 3 because I knew I could always improve. My teacher gave me 4s. Then my professor said she was giving me 2s based on her two observations. Then, the cooperating teacher ERASED her 4s and put 2s in their place. I was devastated. I eventually got to full-takeover a week later. At the end of student teaching, there was supposed to be another meeting like the one at the midpoint. Because I student taught until about 4 days before graduation (due to their insistence), the teacher and my professor had the meeting without me...two days before graduation. Thank goodness I graduated, but I was SO NERVOUS! I tell that story because it always shocks me that this happened.
This past year I was set up to get fired at the end of the year, I was dinged for a student wearing a hood in my class, I was dinged for students refusing to participate, I was dinged for not asking higher level questions (which I did, I just had a PE teacher evaluating my science class) and when I questioned all of these and others I was told that I don't take feedback well and was not a good member to have on the team...
My first observation as a high school teacher, the learning specialist from the district came into my classroom and quietly sat in the back. It was a class full of seniors mostly boys. One of them decided it was time to hit on the learning specialist and ask her for her phone number. It was so obnoxious and embarrassing. The principal made him apologize to her and to me but that made it even more awkward. :)
My first observation a kid sitting behind the Principal cut himself and bled in the floor. Principal left and came back another day because he got so mad at the kid.
A couple years ago, when we were super low on subs (2022-2023), we had to take other classes into our class. We are a small school, only one teacher per grade. I frequently had either the 3rd grade or 5th grade class in my class (4th). One day, my principal asked me to take the 3rd grade class. Because I had done it so many times, he knew how I rearranged my classroom to accommodate that class, so he helped me move it all around. School started, and I was teaching my 4th graders math. I had already done the first part of the lesson, so I was having them work out a problem on their own. I then would move to the 3rd grade side of my room and walk around briefly answering questions on their work. I would walk back over to the 4th, go over the problem, answer questions, and give them the next one, etc. Fifteen minutes into the process, my principal came in for a "surprise" formal observation. We knew it would be that week, we just didn't know when. The same one who had asked me to take 3rd grade and helped me rearrange my room, gave me my observation. I was not happy about that. He assured me I did fine. I didn't need the reassurance, I knew I was doing the best that could be done in that situation like I had many times that year. When I got my observation results, he gave me high marks - he always did - but not one mention of the fact I had two classes doing separate work going at the same time with no interruptions. I wasn't sure what I was maddest about - that he did the observation or that there was no mention of the circumstances. He actually was an amazing administrator and I didn't hold it against him too long. He really was the best.
I had several colleagues who would post one set of objectives at the beginning of the year and never change them. And nobody ever noticed, not even creeping admin on walk-throughs and formal observations.
We don’t ever know when administration is coming for observations, they just show up. I even had one principal fall asleep during my observation. I later found out from other teachers that she fell asleep during their observation too.
One day both my principal and the District ESL specialist came to do a surprise observation at the same time. I thought it went horribly. But the district specialist stayed 30 minutes after (last class period of the day) to sing my praises and ask if she could recommend to other ESL teachers to come observe me. The next day I asked my principal (in a joking manner) we he and the district tag teamed me. He laughed and put his hands up, "I didn't know she was coming, honest!"
I was evaluated over Microsoft Teams during the pandemic teaching a reading intervention to a small group of students (I’m a multilingual teacher). Thank goodness I had a very good Vice Principal and thank goodness nothing glitched!
I had an AP who was new and trying to “prove” himself. He did a walk through observation the last 10 minutes of the day on HALLOWEEN. (On his way to the bus circle.) Definitely felt like a gotcha moment. Thank goodness I always try to do bell to bell instruction and my kiddos were rockstars! 🤩
My worst observation was a month before summer break, when I was 8 months pregnant and considering quitting. I was so angry that i wasn't observed earlier in the year, before I gained 50 pounds, before my feet were swollen. I just didn't care about that observation and it showed.
Try the last 2 weeks before summer break or 2 days before Christmas break. It's like a setup for you to fail. Kids aren't engaged, and it's blamed on you.
I have a few stories from my 29 year career. Once, during a formal observation, I locked myself out of my classroom. I had sent a kid into the hall nd then went to talk to him, forgetting I had the door locked from a previous fire drill. I had to be saved by a kid in the front row. IN MY SECOND year, I tried to make a cloud in a bottle, using a plastic bottle and boiling water (the glass one wasn't big enough). Turns out plastic melts, and that would have been a problem if the principal had bothered to stay awake.
Worst was when someone from the district was my evaluator (common in our larger schools) I was teaching K, it was the day after break. 1st thing in the morning. I also got a new student had countless interruptions. Not to mention it's K after a break and you need to completely retrain them.
My very very first observation was with my Title 1 Math Class small group (I was an Intervention Teacher) I picked it because all the kids had varying behaviors and I thought it would look good for my classroom management skills, and overall the group would handle instruction and follow the lesson well. It was a SNAFU on all accounts...because Elementary School kids, and to top it off one kid who was feeling sick, puked on the principal >.
@@MrsSonyaKS Oh I was at a Title 1 School as an Intervention Teacher and it was one of my small groups (basically I worked with students that needed the extra assistance for varying subjects while their home room teacher worked with the rest of the class). I just got used to calling it a class even though it was a small group.
I got an observation for a different teacher in my department. For reference, I was 45 and the other teacher was retiring that year. Also, I’m white and teach lower level French and the other teacher is Latina and she was teaching AP Spanish! I told my AP and was told, “Well, I’ve already written it up like this, so we’re going with it.”
I was a para in a life/functional skills classroom. The principal would observe my TOR the day after Halloween every year. You can imagine how that went. 🙄
This podcast is hilarious and makes me glad I changed my major from music education to psychology. I love kids and still think I would have made a good teacher, but the job sounds stressful AF.
My favorite comment from an admin observation was that I shouldn’t let students wrap up in a blanket. It was my only negative and it was listed as something to work on. However, my room was cold, the girl had like no body fat and was freezing, plus she was working-not sleeping. The true kicker is that it was a spirit stadium blanket that the SCHOOL GAVE ME. I had other much worse issues with this administrator, who thankfully left our school, but this was just stupid. She was searching for something negative to say-so pointless.
I was having a discussion with someone from the region (big bosses) and she just stops talking and looks around me. I turn and one of my pre-kinders came out of the bathroom butt ass naked. "Why are you naked already? It's not even 9 o'clock yet!!" "I can't find my swim shorts." "We aren't swimming today, go put some clothes on." He goes off and 5 minutes later he comes back into the room. And says, at concert level volume, "Do I need to wear underwear too?" "You know you need to wear underwear, go back and put it on!" He sighed and went back to the bathroom. They said I should've spoken to the student alone because I could've embarrassed him.
I was getting a walkthrough by 6 people (campus &district) when a shelter in place occurred and lasted 20 minutes. It was at that time both parties realized my complaints of no air circulation (no HVAC) in my room was a very real problem. Happy to say that I should have HVAC in my classroom this next school year as new units were delivered first week of summer break. Also, my co-worker was observed the day after Halloween by the principal. He gave such a low score, she appealed it and he had to observe her again (never going through through the proper steps of the appeal). He observed the students practicing for a state test and scored her lower than before. She filed another appeal to the district and was observed the last week of school by an AP that gave her a more reasonable score. Luckily, it was on a lesson for the end of a book study and the students were the best behaved they had ever been all year.
I feel very disposable and bullied by the school system, I was a lunch monitor and I made a mistake and got fired right away. They said I have poor judgement. With having TBD to the frontal lob my focus doesn't always stay focused and I caved to a bunch of students pushing me to say a bad word. I'm still in therapy for anxiety. So great time.
During an observation my admin walked around my classroom. Later that day my department head came into my classroom and looked at my crate that held files. My department head explained the admin thought my files were labeled PE, and was upset because I can't teach that subject. The files were labeled CE (Consumer Education) which I could teach. My admin could have asked me for an explanation instead of going behind my back. It made me angry.
The daycare I worked at got watched and observed by DHS all the time and no one knew if they could talk to them or not. They would just watch us through the window making faces itbwas terrifying
Principals kids truly think they are untouchable and for the most part they are. One time the principal son told another student to unalive themselves in front of a teacher and he wasn’t even suspended or anything he got I.S.S for 3 days and that’s literally it. Another boy had bullied another student in the bathroom and he got suspended for a week. Please tell me how that’s even fair.
There are bison farms in WI, but not just free roaming like South Dakota or other states 😂 WI is beautiful outside of the 6mo of snow. This past winter was the best due to lack of snow. Sadly summer is now all rain.
I usually got to choose in my old school (Catholic), but in my new job in public school they choose. My short unannounced observation went ok, but the admin (ELA supervisor) told me two boys were poking one another with pencils. I still did well, but I was all "I have three nephews. Normal seventh grade boy stuff" and she actually agreed. My long and announced went flawlessly. I love teaching, and I refuse to do a dog and pony show to please admin. They usually end up asking the kids "So you do this every day?" And they say "Yes."
Worst observation ever. I had been told the school board was going to walk through the school. Maybe look in a windows, won't be in classes at all. I taught small groups EBD, Bible not tell my kids anything. Had the entire school board walk in and observe me teach. The whole time my students are doing a great job but you can see the kids losing it...until one kid screams Fuck no I ain't telling you that shit!!! You can't cone back from that..
We were supposed to see you in Springfield, IL in May. Unfortunately my husband’s medical problems showed up just before the show. I was able to get a refund on the tickets and canceled the hotel.
Surprise that you guys also didn’t talk about the people who are showing favoritism during teacher observations! People who absolutely coasting through them just ask for the frustration level when you get docked points for something similar. Small tip: For observations always do the same left and I got you all 4 or 3.
LOL This reminds me of a conversation I had with a Teacher friend of mine, we compared Observations with job interviews. Dumbest Interview Question: "Tell me one reason I should NOT hire you?" Dumbest Observation question: "Tell me one reason you feel you should NOT be a teacher?" Excuse me?
lmao, clocking out to leave school during lunch, parents worrying about children going to the gas station, what a clown country the US is, you all need to chill
the one thing i've surmised from going through US public school, and seeing my 3 kids go through it, is that teachers are almost universally low-performers, high-complainers, self-righteous, judgy busy-body types. it's too bad the shitty system selects for these traits. public education is the quintessential government service; shitty, overpriced, with snotty help that knows it enjoys a captured market. or maybe i just described unions in general.
My worst observation was when I used to reach at an elementary school. The principal had a habit of prewriting observations before coming to observe teachers and I caught her/called her on it. She observed me during an ELA lesson but my write up was for a fraction lesson! Needless to say I reported that incident to the Superintendent when she refused to retract it. (Also resigned at end of that year)
During my first year teaching, my very first observation, I was so nervous I was trying to ignore the administrator and was praying these jr high kiddos would behave for me. After he left, my kids told me that the whole time he was opening all my desk drawers and was trying to look down my shirt every time I bent down to write something on the overhead🤦🏻♀️
My favorite observation was an AP who was called to an emergency and still wrote up a positive observation. He just asked me how it went.
When I get observed, I give them a 3 classes to choose. They are NOT my best classes. I want them to see how I manage the most difficult...
As I’ve said before, I’m an Educational Sign Language Interpreter. When I was observed, my principal told me that I was giving my deaf student answers to the test that the teacher was reading the questions to the class. She said that she wasn’t going to give my student an F for me essentially “cheating” because he is just a child ( 6th grade student for context) and that if she sees me doing it again she will have no choice but to fully discipline me. Here’s my question, if I was giving my student answers to the test, tell me why this kid failed to test 🤬😜🤦🏻♀️
My 3rd year teaching, my principal said that my classroom management hadn’t improved enough over the 3 years I was at that school. She then showed me her observation score sheet and I don’t remember her ever coming into my room to watch me teach the entire year.
One time for an observation, one of my kiddos who was going through some chaos at home came into the room mid observation and starting tearing up the room. There was nothing (inside the room) that precipitated, he just came in and started pushing desks over. My principal turned to me and told me to have the class evacuate the room and she stayed with that kiddo. She asked later if I wanted to redo the observation or keep it, even though it was super short. I just kept it, because I had a really tough class that year.
My first 3 years I didn't mind observations at all, it wasn't until I had some tougher behaviors and things less in control that I got nervous for them.
I work at a vet and some appointments dont require seeing a doctor so the owner stays in the lobby while the pet goes to the back and we had an owner sit in the lobby, take her shoes off, and clip her toe nails in the lobby. She left the clippings on the floor and we had to sweep them up. It was gross and appaling. Like how does anyone think thats okay?
You 3 are my favorite group on TOD! Please work together more often!
I had a similar story to Jess' student teaching observation, only worse. Right before full-takeover, in the middle of student teaching, there was to be a meeting to determine if i was ready, which also used observation scores from me, my cooperating teacher, and my professor. I gave myself 4s on most things with the occasional 3 because I knew I could always improve. My teacher gave me 4s. Then my professor said she was giving me 2s based on her two observations. Then, the cooperating teacher ERASED her 4s and put 2s in their place. I was devastated. I eventually got to full-takeover a week later. At the end of student teaching, there was supposed to be another meeting like the one at the midpoint. Because I student taught until about 4 days before graduation (due to their insistence), the teacher and my professor had the meeting without me...two days before graduation. Thank goodness I graduated, but I was SO NERVOUS! I tell that story because it always shocks me that this happened.
This past year I was set up to get fired at the end of the year, I was dinged for a student wearing a hood in my class, I was dinged for students refusing to participate, I was dinged for not asking higher level questions (which I did, I just had a PE teacher evaluating my science class) and when I questioned all of these and others I was told that I don't take feedback well and was not a good member to have on the team...
Wow, So sorry
My first observation as a high school teacher, the learning specialist from the district came into my classroom and quietly sat in the back. It was a class full of seniors mostly boys. One of them decided it was time to hit on the learning specialist and ask her for her phone number. It was so obnoxious and embarrassing. The principal made him apologize to her and to me but that made it even more awkward. :)
My first observation a kid sitting behind the Principal cut himself and bled in the floor. Principal left and came back another day because he got so mad at the kid.
A couple years ago, when we were super low on subs (2022-2023), we had to take other classes into our class. We are a small school, only one teacher per grade. I frequently had either the 3rd grade or 5th grade class in my class (4th). One day, my principal asked me to take the 3rd grade class. Because I had done it so many times, he knew how I rearranged my classroom to accommodate that class, so he helped me move it all around. School started, and I was teaching my 4th graders math. I had already done the first part of the lesson, so I was having them work out a problem on their own. I then would move to the 3rd grade side of my room and walk around briefly answering questions on their work. I would walk back over to the 4th, go over the problem, answer questions, and give them the next one, etc. Fifteen minutes into the process, my principal came in for a "surprise" formal observation. We knew it would be that week, we just didn't know when. The same one who had asked me to take 3rd grade and helped me rearrange my room, gave me my observation. I was not happy about that. He assured me I did fine. I didn't need the reassurance, I knew I was doing the best that could be done in that situation like I had many times that year. When I got my observation results, he gave me high marks - he always did - but not one mention of the fact I had two classes doing separate work going at the same time with no interruptions. I wasn't sure what I was maddest about - that he did the observation or that there was no mention of the circumstances. He actually was an amazing administrator and I didn't hold it against him too long. He really was the best.
I had several colleagues who would post one set of objectives at the beginning of the year and never change them. And nobody ever noticed, not even creeping admin on walk-throughs and formal observations.
If you did it I bet they would've noticed. 😂😂
We don’t ever know when administration is coming for observations, they just show up. I even had one principal fall asleep during my observation. I later found out from other teachers that she fell asleep during their observation too.
One day both my principal and the District ESL specialist came to do a surprise observation at the same time. I thought it went horribly. But the district specialist stayed 30 minutes after (last class period of the day) to sing my praises and ask if she could recommend to other ESL teachers to come observe me. The next day I asked my principal (in a joking manner) we he and the district tag teamed me. He laughed and put his hands up, "I didn't know she was coming, honest!"
I was evaluated over Microsoft Teams during the pandemic teaching a reading intervention to a small group of students (I’m a multilingual teacher). Thank goodness I had a very good Vice Principal and thank goodness nothing glitched!
I had an AP who was new and trying to “prove” himself. He did a walk through observation the last 10 minutes of the day on HALLOWEEN. (On his way to the bus circle.)
Definitely felt like a gotcha moment. Thank goodness I always try to do bell to bell instruction and my kiddos were rockstars! 🤩
My worst observation was a month before summer break, when I was 8 months pregnant and considering quitting. I was so angry that i wasn't observed earlier in the year, before I gained 50 pounds, before my feet were swollen. I just didn't care about that observation and it showed.
A month before summer break is the worst time for observing students. They are checked out at that point. And so are the teachers.
Try the last 2 weeks before summer break or 2 days before Christmas break. It's like a setup for you to fail. Kids aren't engaged, and it's blamed on you.
I have a few stories from my 29 year career. Once, during a formal observation, I locked myself out of my classroom. I had sent a kid into the hall nd then went to talk to him, forgetting I had the door locked from a previous fire drill. I had to be saved by a kid in the front row. IN MY SECOND year, I tried to make a cloud in a bottle, using a plastic bottle and boiling water (the glass one wasn't big enough). Turns out plastic melts, and that would have been a problem if the principal had bothered to stay awake.
Worst was when someone from the district was my evaluator (common in our larger schools) I was teaching K, it was the day after break. 1st thing in the morning. I also got a new student had countless interruptions. Not to mention it's K after a break and you need to completely retrain them.
My very very first observation was with my Title 1 Math Class small group (I was an Intervention Teacher) I picked it because all the kids had varying behaviors and I thought it would look good for my classroom management skills, and overall the group would handle instruction and follow the lesson well. It was a SNAFU on all accounts...because Elementary School kids, and to top it off one kid who was feeling sick, puked on the principal >.
@lindamoulton1560 I've heard of Title 1 schools, but what is a Title 1 class?
@@MrsSonyaKS Oh I was at a Title 1 School as an Intervention Teacher and it was one of my small groups (basically I worked with students that needed the extra assistance for varying subjects while their home room teacher worked with the rest of the class). I just got used to calling it a class even though it was a small group.
@@lindamoulton1560 ☺️ Oh, I see
I got an observation for a different teacher in my department. For reference, I was 45 and the other teacher was retiring that year. Also, I’m white and teach lower level French and the other teacher is Latina and she was teaching AP Spanish! I told my AP and was told, “Well, I’ve already written it up like this, so we’re going with it.”
This ep was one of the funniest ever! The three of you together are the best!
I was a para in a life/functional skills classroom. The principal would observe my TOR the day after Halloween every year. You can imagine how that went. 🙄
This podcast is hilarious and makes me glad I changed my major from music education to psychology. I love kids and still think I would have made a good teacher, but the job sounds stressful AF.
My favorite comment from an admin observation was that I shouldn’t let students wrap up in a blanket. It was my only negative and it was listed as something to work on. However, my room was cold, the girl had like no body fat and was freezing, plus she was working-not sleeping. The true kicker is that it was a spirit stadium blanket that the SCHOOL GAVE ME. I had other much worse issues with this administrator, who thankfully left our school, but this was just stupid. She was searching for something negative to say-so pointless.
I was once observed by the state superintendent of public instruction. It was pretty scary awkward.
I was having a discussion with someone from the region (big bosses) and she just stops talking and looks around me.
I turn and one of my pre-kinders came out of the bathroom butt ass naked.
"Why are you naked already? It's not even 9 o'clock yet!!"
"I can't find my swim shorts."
"We aren't swimming today, go put some clothes on."
He goes off and 5 minutes later he comes back into the room. And says, at concert level volume, "Do I need to wear underwear too?"
"You know you need to wear underwear, go back and put it on!"
He sighed and went back to the bathroom.
They said I should've spoken to the student alone because I could've embarrassed him.
This is my favorite trio.
This is the earliest ive been! Love this podcast
Same
I was getting a walkthrough by 6 people (campus &district) when a shelter in place occurred and lasted 20 minutes. It was at that time both parties realized my complaints of no air circulation (no HVAC) in my room was a very real problem.
Happy to say that I should have HVAC in my classroom this next school year as new units were delivered first week of summer break.
Also, my co-worker was observed the day after Halloween by the principal. He gave such a low score, she appealed it and he had to observe her again (never going through through the proper steps of the appeal). He observed the students practicing for a state test and scored her lower than before. She filed another appeal to the district and was observed the last week of school by an AP that gave her a more reasonable score. Luckily, it was on a lesson for the end of a book study and the students were the best behaved they had ever been all year.
I told my MS students "I need you to do me a solid guys, we're all getting observed soon, so lets all act real chill and be super excited to learn."
I still remember it to this day. I was observed by my principal ON 👏🏻FREAKIN 👏🏻 HALLOWEEN 🤬
I got forgotten in the hallway for 30 minutes. The principal walked by 3 times before sticking their head in and asking about me.
I feel very disposable and bullied by the school system, I was a lunch monitor and I made a mistake and got fired right away. They said I have poor judgement. With having TBD to the frontal lob my focus doesn't always stay focused and I caved to a bunch of students pushing me to say a bad word. I'm still in therapy for anxiety. So great time.
In the first daycare I worked at they did self observation and then if you gave yourself a 5 you'd get in trouble 😵💫 but it affected your raise
During an observation my admin walked around my classroom. Later that day my department head came into my classroom and looked at my crate that held files. My department head explained the admin thought my files were labeled PE, and was upset because I can't teach that subject. The files were labeled CE (Consumer Education) which I could teach. My admin could have asked me for an explanation instead of going behind my back. It made me angry.
The daycare I worked at got watched and observed by DHS all the time and no one knew if they could talk to them or not. They would just watch us through the window making faces itbwas terrifying
Not every district did the self-eval for VAM in FL. Mine didn't
Principals kids truly think they are untouchable and for the most part they are. One time the principal son told another student to unalive themselves in front of a teacher and he wasn’t even suspended or anything he got I.S.S for 3 days and that’s literally it. Another boy had bullied another student in the bathroom and he got suspended for a week. Please tell me how that’s even fair.
There are bison farms in WI, but not just free roaming like South Dakota or other states 😂 WI is beautiful outside of the 6mo of snow. This past winter was the best due to lack of snow. Sadly summer is now all rain.
I had a student ask the Sped teacher who was in my class doing an observation, "Are you a pedophile?"
I usually got to choose in my old school (Catholic), but in my new job in public school they choose. My short unannounced observation went ok, but the admin (ELA supervisor) told me two boys were poking one another with pencils. I still did well, but I was all "I have three nephews. Normal seventh grade boy stuff" and she actually agreed. My long and announced went flawlessly.
I love teaching, and I refuse to do a dog and pony show to please admin. They usually end up asking the kids "So you do this every day?" And they say "Yes."
love the wisconsin shoutout but definitely stay away from milwaukee!
Worst observation ever. I had been told the school board was going to walk through the school. Maybe look in a windows, won't be in classes at all. I taught small groups EBD, Bible not tell my kids anything. Had the entire school board walk in and observe me teach. The whole time my students are doing a great job but you can see the kids losing it...until one kid screams Fuck no I ain't telling you that shit!!! You can't cone back from that..
45:05 i think thats a little bit worse or equal to telling the teacher that thwir voice would give you a headache
How can they tell you that you can't leave in your lunch break? I thought that by law you get a half hour duty free break.
Tnx for making me laugh
Jess Smith, ahh, your 🤢🤮 sound too real 😂
We were supposed to see you in Springfield, IL in May. Unfortunately my husband’s medical problems showed up just before the show. I was able to get a refund on the tickets and canceled the hotel.
The things that people got docked points for made me so mad!!
Surprise that you guys also didn’t talk about the people who are showing favoritism during teacher observations! People who absolutely coasting through them just ask for the frustration level when you get docked points for something similar. Small tip: For observations always do the same left and I got you all 4 or 3.
I got observed over zoom on more than one occasion.
I’m in college studying to become a teacher!!! I start observations spring semester of 2025!!!!
H guys r hilarious 😊
LOL This reminds me of a conversation I had with a Teacher friend of mine, we compared Observations with job interviews.
Dumbest Interview Question: "Tell me one reason I should NOT hire you?"
Dumbest Observation question: "Tell me one reason you feel you should NOT be a teacher?"
Excuse me?
No Pennsylvania?
Hello there!
I hate them with a passion
lmao, clocking out to leave school during lunch, parents worrying about children going to the gas station, what a clown country the US is, you all need to chill
23:31 oh lord this sounds like me 🤣🤣🤣 My students get so competitive over my theatre games lol
Hiii😊
the one thing i've surmised from going through US public school, and seeing my 3 kids go through it, is that teachers are almost universally low-performers, high-complainers, self-righteous, judgy busy-body types. it's too bad the shitty system selects for these traits. public education is the quintessential government service; shitty, overpriced, with snotty help that knows it enjoys a captured market. or maybe i just described unions in general.
My worst observation was when I used to reach at an elementary school. The principal had a habit of prewriting observations before coming to observe teachers and I caught her/called her on it. She observed me during an ELA lesson but my write up was for a fraction lesson! Needless to say I reported that incident to the Superintendent when she refused to retract it. (Also resigned at end of that year)