The End of Another School Year: Madness & Sadness
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- Опубліковано 28 тра 2022
- It's the end of another school year which we all know comes with a lot of emotions, unruly behavior, packing up classrooms, saying goodbye, and the countdown to summer break.
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My first grade teacher in 1979 had us write a couple of sentences about anything at the beginning of the school year. She said she'd give them back our senior year. No lie, she showed up to each student's high school graduation party (1991) and presented THAT PAPER to us with a copy of The Giving Tree. I still have it!
That’s so sweet. When I started Spanish, my teacher has us do that with as much as we could. At the end of Spanish, she presented us with those papers for comparisons. It was hilarious.
What did you write about?
my grade 6 class wrote these time capsule ish letters that our teacher said he would mail to use in a decade! we included small trinkets in the envelopes (i put a bracelet and a wallet sized school picture in mine). it lined up perfectly to arrive the day before my university graduation 🥺
@@chloebrindle9295 All I remember was writing that I liked school but it was too loud. Lol
that’s adorable!
My 7th grade history teacher saved me from suicide. Just a person that saw a kid and actually talked to her, like a person with a brain and feelings. I wrote him a letter senior year about what he did for me and his kindness. Needless to say a few tears were shed. Keep believing in kids, they need you! 💜
The last story that Rebecca told reminds me of a teacher experience I had when I was in 4th grade, but sadly, in the opposite way. My 4th grade teacher asked me a question… I can no longer remember the question, or even what subject we were studying, but I answered it incorrectly. His response was to tell me in front of the whole class, “It is better to remain silent & believed to be a fool, then to open your mouth & remove all doubt.” I was so mortified by this, I still hesitate to answer questions in group settings, even if I’m fairly sure I know the answer. It took me years to realize that teacher was extremely inappropriate in his “teaching method”.
I’m so sorry that happened to you
Wow, what a genuinely bad teacher. Sorry you had this experience, you deserved better.
Im so sorry, that would have been crushing. Personally, I'm the exact opposite. Especially in university, most profs never say anything rude about people asking questions, and more often than not they just want someone to participate. I'd often answer incorrectly, but profs are still happy that you're trying. I hope you're able to resolve that a bit and get more of your voice back.
@@dianaadamo5574 I know you’re right… logically. But emotionally I can’t bring myself to risk another humiliating situation like that.
That’s such a counterproductive and cruel thing to tell a kid. My literal college professors hear some ridiculous answers, but they just correct or say something like “not quite” and ask if anyone else wants to answer. If adults in college are allowed to give a goofy answer because they’re still processing information, or are completely out of their depth of knowledge so they just aren’t on the right train of thought yet, then little kids should be given grace and space to mess up without being degraded.
I’m so sorry that happened and hope you’ll be able to find comfort in expressing thoughts publicly one day. It’s helpful to the group to have peers give answers in their own words, and it also helps when a peer makes a mistake (usually one other people would have made as well) and learn from it with them.
My sons third grade teacher had the kids write a letter to their graduating self. She had them include things that were currently going on in their life, etc. A couple weeks after he graduated high school last year, he received that letter in the mail. His teacher told me that she has done this project for over 30 years now in her English class when they learn the parts of a letter, etc. I think it is so cool.
I was going through a terrible time in high school and I remember having a teacher who did little awards for the students and I knew I wasn’t getting anything, so I was just doodling in my notebook and then she said my name. I was so surprised I had to ask her again what it was for and she said “Most Improved” and I had to ask what grade I had because I had a D and she just cheered that I currently had an 89% and blew a popper. She was so happy with me because she knew how much I had been struggling and working to do better despite believing that I likely wasn’t going to pass that that memory will never leave me 💙 Miss A was an incredible teacher!
So I had summer school one year (wasn't my fault, teacher refused to grade my assignments) but the summer school teacher loved me and we were watching Mulan and she asked me to give her a reason if an admin walked in and I said since we're here for American history we're now looking at other nations history or something along those lines
That was a good summer school teacher and I'm sorry your main teacher purposely failed you
@@miraculerlovingmiraculous6528 Thx, but honestly, I'm actually happy I failed, I got to refresh the material and since it was faster my adhd had an easier time working and I made a really close friend and a lot of nicer memories then my actual history class
@@randomidiocy6770 that's good but I hope you still reported your teacher who failed you as that's still not ok
@@miraculerlovingmiraculous6528 I was in 6th grade so I couldn't really do anything and my mom just blamed me / wouldn't listen to me
Did you turn them in on time? That’s bizarre if they were in on time and complete. Teacher here.
I’m so jealous of people that are done doing stuff after state testing. Like Mrs. Rogers, we have to do finals during the last week of school up until the last period on the last day. I would love to be done doing any work after state testing. Love the podcast❤️
To the student that grew 46 points GOOD FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is awesome
9 minutes in and Bri and Vinny are absolutely killing me 😭 I think this may be the funniest episode yet
what teachers say to you can have such a long impact!! this is a personal story but i have a little note card on my fridge from 5th grade (12ish years ago), my teacher sat me down after class (i believe she knew i did not have a good life at home and i was also being bullied in school) and asked me five things i could remind myself everyday, some of the things were simple like “i have pretty eyes” but i think the biggest ones that stick out to me now are “i’m better than what others think of me” and “i’m worthwhile”, i’m 22 now and it might be silly but i get a little teary eyed sometimes when i see that card on my fridge, she was one of the first people i thought truly ever believed in me, and i think i needed to share that, she had no obligation to do that and she’s probably forgotten about me, but that one moment made such a big impact on me, one she probably didn’t even realize, even today there are days where i need to remind myself of those things, she was so caring and nice to every student, i don’t think she ever didn’t have a smile on her face and i know that had to be so hard to do when you have a personal life outside of school, she always made me feel included when other kids would leave me out, for all of that i will always be grateful for her!!
Thank you so much for sharing that, and I hope she sees this!
This year, one of my past teachers quit teaching. She was my favorite teacher of all time, and I'll miss her to death. That homeroom was off the chain, we got along like siblings, and had so many inside jokes. She doesn't know it, but there was one kid who was the most wild that year. If she saw how much he improved by a couple words she told him a couple years back, I think she'd be the most proud you can be of a kid. Can't wait to eventually see you again, another time, Ms. Morris. Her class changed me the most.
My favorite teacher left my school this year, and I was especially upset because it was just out of the blue. Like I literally went to his classroom to tell him about something that happened over the summer and then he just wasn't there. I was so upset. He taught English (to high schoolers) Spanish, and coding, as well as leading the robotics club. He would start whole-class discussions about stuff we were interested about, and would manage to still teach the lesson while having a seemingly unrelated conversation with us. He talked to me about niche books/authors that I read, and gifted me a book from one of those authors, and it was specifically one I hadn't read yet. Mr. Cosby, if you happen to read this you were one of the best teachers I've ever had and I miss you a lot.
I am not a teacher and I don’t have kids but I LOVE your podcasts so much I have also gained so much respect for teachers y’all are amazing
This is me!!!!! They’re the best !!!
Same
I work at a high school. I teach freshman English. We write letters and we give the letter back at graduation. I think that is so cool.
Yes my sons loved “a long walk to water” Great book for middle school age
No it's not, and the hollow cost didn't happen don't listen to the ret*Rds like rrogersworld talking about it
Are we just going to ignore the fact that Mrs. Woolley had a chicken doll thing in her chair???
They referenced it and talked about it starting at 1:36
My mom taught one full-time class of 1st graders before she switched to being a substitute teacher. She told them she would come to they high school graduation. In 2013 they graduated high school, she was their and a couple of kids remember her.
Congratulations on your plaque and surviving another year!!!
That awkward moment when you realize Bri didn’t survive another year 😅 jk, she survived cause she took care of herself! WHOOP
When I was in 2nd grade, our class had a lovely student teacher. Then in 3rd grade, she'd been hired as our science teacher. In 4th grade she was our classroom teacher, and by the end of that year she cried when we left because we were her babies. I ended up reconnecting with her as an adult and subbing for her class many times until I had my first daughter and stopped subbing. ❤️
It’s always so sad to leave a school year. It’s, to me, almost like leaving a loved one behind, missing the friends from all my classes. Granted, I will be able to see them in about two months, but it’s the connections I have with these people that make me miss them over the summer. I really don’t know if this is just a me thing though.
Not just you! I had the same thing... I got sooo emotional- Crying & hugging lol Signing yearbooks
@@poetlover30 the last day of school is always so sad, but usually it’s the most relaxed day too, which is good for when I get emotional.
Same especially since I moved a lot so I knew I probably wouldn't see them again
I remember going through one of my most mentally challenging times and unfortunately with my BPD and Traumatic experiences, I used to sit out of my first period all the time. I couldn't stop the crying. I dealt with so much crap that semester, barely scraped by, but I'm pretty sure that teacher passed me the way she did because she saw the stress I was under. She was so kind to me, she barely spoke to me 😬 but her kindness had no words, she alone taught me so much silent grace. Sometimes angels move in 🤐 silence.
23:30 when you guys started talking about kids cleaning the classroom it reminded me about how me and one of my friends would ask our teacher if we could clean her desk because it triggered our OCD and it was just messy. That was this year 🙂
I have enjoyed listening to your pod cast, while gardening. I already have a different level of respect for all teachers and teams. Thanks so much for your laughs.
Is no one gonna talk about how fun the intro was✋😭😆
I've just started listening to you guys recently, and I've been binge listening for the past couple weeks. Today I felt compelled to actually come to UA-cam (I listen on spotify) and leave a comment... because I'm the mother of a kid with an IEP. I know how hard it can be to try and help one child, I can't imagine the day to day with multiple. When you said that one of your kids went up 46 points, I cried. That's amazing, and you're wonderful. You're ALL wonderful. I wish I had had teachers like all of you.
I was in 5th grade when 9/11 happened. To this day I have never forgotten how she handled that situation and how she treated us. She felt we deserved to know what happened and then proceeded to build her curriculum of the day around it and what we were feeling. She was also the first teacher to notice some of my defaults and where I was lacking. She went out of her way with every student to help us improve on our downfalls so they were no longer downfalls. But I also had many other teachers throughout my academic years that made an impact from elementary to college. They have each stuck with me.
You are all doing amazing out there and I can't wait to listen to more. This is the first one I have watched/listened to that was not a clip from tiktok or fb reels.
I’m over hear crying over some kid I don’t even knows name gaining so much in one year 😭❤️🙌🏻 And teachers do make such a difference. My daughter is ending her 5th grade year, and it’s been a really really complicated year. Her teacher creating a comfortable environment she doesn’t want to miss out on, and it has been a 180 from when she was in 1st grade and would get physically ill with anxiety over school. Our schools 5th grade also lost a student to taking his own life, so it can’t be stressed enough how important it is for them to have good environments at school, and everywhere else.
Even after a decade after graduation I still know my teachers and they truly made a difference in my life and possibly my future teaching career. I can't wait to be in the same position and help my students
Congratulations on getting the award!!! And that it is almost the end of the school year, it really is something to those students!!!
I love how teachers gave us catch up days. That was greatly helpful. I am always that student who is always on task; always gets assignments turned in at least 3 days before it’s due; etc.
Even now in college; I always get assignments done/at least started when it’s assigned bc I will forget to do it.
I always get so happy when a episode comes out!!! This is my favorite podcast. Thank you!!!!
Right! I saw they had a new episode out and it completely changed my mood to instantly happy! 😁
I just reminisced on all of my memories from school listening to this podcast its making me miss my all my good teachers
35:36 I can confirm that's true I always think about my former teachers and things they've said to me
Same and I am 26
Your stories gave me such goosebumps…. My teacher heart explodes to hear when the student gets that lightbulb moment… and believes in themselves!!!! Absolute Love for these stories!
Never doubt the power teachers have. My 5th grade homeroom teacher is a friend on Facebook and it is so cool to see her teaching journey. I was in her first teaching job straight out of college and now she is a phD professor with two amazingly smart kids. And I get so excited to tell people I'm friends with one of my teachers
The baby of our family graduated high school this week with honors. The day of his honor cord ceremony each student was allowed to pick the peer that really touched their heart and put the cord on them. My brother chose a teacher that has dealt with horrible bullying from students ever since my oldest brother attended the high school (2008 grad). This teacher had finally left the school 2 years ago and the school had to reach out and tell him my brother chose him to place the chord on him that day because he was his role model. I just know that the teacher had to think that all the hell he went through was absolutely worth it in the end. I definitely cried, so yes sometimes kids are horrible but years later they will truly appreciate the lessons you gave them. And we thank you 🙏🏼
This whole episode hit me RIGHT in the feels! My first year teaching was 4 years ago…my 8th graders from my first year will be SENIORS this next year 🥹
I love this podcast! Congrats to you guys on your plaque. I was a long term sub and now completely out of education but you guys take me back to those teaching days and your stories are so relatable. Keep up the awesome work that you guys do in the classroom and outside of it!! 🤩
I’m so so happy that you guys made the next milestone. This podcast makes me smile. I love you all. It gives me hope for our children that there are still teachers like you out there. I wish you only happiness, good health and prosperity! Xo ❤️
Vinny, next time Bri asks you to say acetaminophen, just say Tylenol 😂
Look all teachers out there need to take what Rogers said and run with it. I made it a point to make positive calls home and there were so many parents that said no teacher had ever called to give them good news. These parents need it, especially when the student is on the struggle because that parent on the struggle too.
I’m an early career teacher (formerly NQT) in the UK, I just graduated from uni and I start with my first class in September. I love listening to the podcast and hearing the amazing things you’ve done for/with your kids. Keeping note of so many things so I can do them with my class as well ☺️
Hearing A Long Walk to Water mentioned (19:30 ish for timestamp) brought back vivid memories of 7th grade social studies. My teacher read alwtw to us, and for some chapters she'd hook her phone up to a speaker and walk around the school/outside with it playing while we read along. She even took us outside and when the characters got to have honey, she pulled a thing of honey out of her bag and poured a little honey on the hands of people who wanted it and let us have honey (it was the first time I'd ever had honey before). Those small details made the book so much more enjoyable and fun, thanks for bringing back that memory!
I love this podcast so much I look forward to the new episodes each week and it always leaves me with a smile on my face. I actually recently applied for my first teacher's aide job this week because this podcast is a constant reminder that I'm not ready to leave the realm of education yet 💜 love y'all
I'm so glad I heard you say you do Number the Stars Lauren! I read that in 4th grade and still to this day (im 30 now) I tell people it is one of my FAVORITE books! I absolutely LOVE it🥰
Both of my sons love that book.
My 6th grade English teacher had us write letters to ourselves and for our 8th grade “graduation” she gave them back to us. It was such a cool thing to look back at what was important to us then vs now
I just went to the graduation of the first class I had and y’all, it was beautiful, I’m so proud of them, we were all hot messes when we started four years ago and we all got to grow together because o taught the freshmen. I’m crying now thinking about them.
I read that book in 7th grade now I just finished my first year in college. I have to say A long walk to water was really good and one of the best books I’ve read and actually enjoyed and I HATE reading.
Last year my social studies teacher read a long walk to water with us and every few chapters he did these mystery boxes that were items foods or so sort of challenge and it really made it memorable.
I'm a new special education teacher this upcoming school year. I'm a huge fan of the Teacher's Off Duty podcast
The audios a lot better in these new ones. Thank you for the fix
Congratulations on the UA-cam award!!! You are all amazing!!!
Rebecca’s last story literally made me cry. It’s so nice to hear teachers that actually have hope in you.
I was literally failing maths my entire gcse year and the department were desperate to move me down to foundation (can only get a pass, no higher) because I was stuck on a 3/E. He fought for me every day and it inspired me to work harder. I finished with a 5/B and am now on a veterinary science course. I will never forget him just like he’ll never forget Rebecca.
That statement about kids growing up and looking back at their teachers and classes differently is so true! I remember I had a teacher i hated in 6th grade, I remember being so angry that she made me go to her room for lunch to work on make-up assignments, that I would steal random little things from her class when she wasn't in the room. Looking back I realize I was being a little turd and that she just wanted me to get my grades up.
But one thing that will always stick with me is how when I was failing most of my classes at the end of middle school because I didn't care, my band instructors tried so hard to motivate me to do better, and it was the only time any of my teachers had a sort of heart to heart talk with me and kept on pushing me to do better. I somehow managed to turn my grades around and really grind, and later I found out that those same teachers would tell other struggling students my story as a way to motivate them, and they weren't afraid to tell me they were proud of me. I'll always carry those memories with me ❤
A long walk to water is amazing. It is so good, it is sad happy and I was so hooked. I wanted to read it more, I could not stop reading.
I teach high school English. I always have them write a paragraph the first week of school and then I give that same paragraph back to them on the last day and have them reflect on how much they’ve grown during the year. It’s a great time and makes student realize how much they’ve really learned
The whole episode was great but that story at the end is so heartwarming 😭❤️
Something I love that my teachers did with the students at the end of the school year was that they gave us fun project activities to do or movies and they would do mini parties with us as well as let outside for the whole day but my favorite thing they done was make tiktoks with us and if we saw someone cute they would become like a best friend to us like they would hype us up about them. At the same time they would also help the students that weren’t doing well so that they could graduate. I have so much respect for teachers and y’all podcast gives me another pov of my teachers and I love listening to y’all podcast. Love y’all 💖💖💖
My history teacher from last year made such an impact on my life. I’m extremely traumatized from events involving men in my life, and he was genuinely the first positive male role-model in my entire life. I miss him so much this year.
I'm dyslexic and was told by multiple teachers - who were horrible and made me hate school "You'll never amount to anything" but now here I am at the age of 30 starting university in October to do an education course to become a primary school teacher (elementary school). I wouldn't be doing it without the encouragement from some other teachers in my current job as a Learning Assistant (the Scottish equivalent to a Teacher's Aid) who sat me down, like Lauran & Becca and said "you can do it".
I have only just found the pod cast and have binge it over the past couple of days 😂 can't wait for more!
In terms of read-alouds, during English last year we got both of our novels read too us (year 7) so I don’t think there is an age limit for teachers reading to their students. I love this podcast so much, it gives me so much more respect for my teachers (I am a respectful student though).
Seeing their plaque made me cry tears of pure joy
I love your podcast I hope that y’all grow big
One of my teachers(reading and writing) said she would flip a desk if she found anyone doing other homework in her class cause she wants us to just read if we have time.
I was a teacher for 17 years and April I left teaching but I still love watching this podcast you guys are real and real funny!
I just ran into my 3rd grade teacher at work (I'm 21 now) and I about cried I was so happy to see her and she remembered me
When I was in school we got out sometime around June 18th every year, I now live in Oklahoma and my children got out on May 5th both last year and this year. It's crazy early.
The long walk to water was amazing
I love this podcast , I've been looking forward to this!
Number the stars is one of my absolute favorite books! I’ve never heard of a teacher teaching it, even I found it in my elementary school library
That last story had me crying! 🥰❤️
a long walk to water is probably the best book ive ever read genuinely i hate reading i do so much other stuff but a long walk to water i loved it so much i stayed up late at night reading it it was such a touching and amazing story i completely reccomend it
The reaction over the difference from the original books to the Disney movies was my sisters exact reaction when I started telling her the origins of those stories
My 6th grade English teacher had us write letters to our future selves, and when we graduated from high school he mailed them to us. It was so cute to read about my dog who was a puppy at that point and when I got the letter she was a senior dog.
A long walk to water is a pretty good book, it’s about a kid in Sudan that goes through many challenges in his live!9/10 I recommend it for a class!
I've only ever seen this in shorts on Facebook and decided to check it out on UA-cam. Im not a teacher but have my own child of school age but not in school. I'm hoping to gane some good parenting tips from this.
Dammit I wasn't expecting to cry but that last phone call story got me. Thank goodness for kind teachers.
During the last couple of weeks of school, my science teacher had to have her room all pack and moved out by the last day of school. So in the morning we have a half an hour called paws where we either get called in by a teacher to get caught up in school work or have fun before school starts. My science teacher took this time to have my class (first period) help pack, move things to other classes or the dumpster if needed, etc.
And we loved doing that. Especially since that classroom hadn't been cleaned out since the science teacher before her I believe, so about 25 year. She even let us take a few nick-nacks that she didn't want.
This episode has last day of school vibes… love it
Congratulations to you guys!
Hey! FINALLY IN THE SAME DAY! Love your podcast!
I listen to this every time I sleep
Hey there! First thing first, I love watching you all and your energy! My question is, do you all ever invite other teachers on or call in to chime in on the convos? A lot of the things talked about is so relatable (5th grade math teacher).
Personally I don't see a problem with audio books and read alouds. There r a lot of people who just don't like reading so at least they r still getting the impact of the book
Congrats to you all!!!!
Gosh I haven't heard Number the Stars in so long, we did that book every year, and the book Night ,we read every year.
Congrats for 100k!!
I’m 20 years old and had a passion to be a teacher however I have sever anxiety and once I realised the amount of paperwork and writing it takes to achieve lesson plans work sheets and everything else it made it almost impossible for me to achieve my goal I have learning difficulties with reading and writing and literacy I am using predictive text as i write this 😂 however your podcast has sparked a new fire in me and I have not yet given in I have an aspersion to become a teacher in the future and it is all thanks to you incredible people, yes even mr. Thomas who holds a special place in my heart as I am a Brit through and through🇬🇧 much love ❤️
At the end of fourth grade (first year of quarantine so it was online) we read Number The Stars. And then at the end of sixth grade my social studies teacher read us “A long walk to water” and our class would literally BEG our teacher to read another chapter.
I had to take summer school twice as a child and I hated it! It was absolutely terrible. I won’t ever let my child go
Our fairytale unit was watching Tangled and reading the original Repunzel story.
With what y’all were talking about towards the end, I think about it as a seed being planted. You planted a seed and you don’t get to see it grow to maturity, but you planted it and gave it that opportunity to start the growing process. Sometimes the seed is slow to start growing or very stubborn, but it gets there eventually.
I wish these episodes were a little longer. Love listening to these guys
Proud to say I've been here since the very beginning when Ms. Sutherd was still here!
Tell it Bri! Don't mess with my childhood like that 🤣😂
Talking about book studies, the best book that I ever read for school had to be the outsiders. I think that might be one of the only books that I fully read and didn’t just look up cliff notes because I couldn’t put it down.
In the middle school my son went to, they teach A Long Walk to Water every single 6th grade year. I read it. Great book.
I love it when my English teacher does the movie adaptation of the book we're reading!! We actually did it twice this year. Our first one was an Anne Frank play that we read, and the movie was an older black and white movie. The the second time was for a book called Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor.
aaaahhhh!! when she said a long walk to water I got so excited, I read that in 6th grade and ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT! so when she said that I got so excited! Defiantly recommend it!
congratulations on 300,000 subs