First-Year Teacher Horror Stories!!
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2024
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Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!! Get ready for some flashbacks, our hosts KC Mack, Bri Richardson also known as HonestTeacherVibes, and The Angry Gym Teacher himself, Tom Filline are sharing some of the cringiest (and hilarious) first year teacher stories!!
From 'phantom children' in overcrowded classrooms to the Great Glitter Explosion of fourth period, you’re not ready for these rookie teacher stories.
KC admits to a mix-up that left his students brilliantly sparkling for days, Bri shares the "mystery of the mouse in the cereal box" that turned her science lesson upside down, and Tom explains how he navigated the scare of losing-and finding-a student during his first stint in the classroom.
It's no secret that teaching is a tough job, but what happens when teachers start bullying each other? Despite the hard days, teaching is a gift that shapes future generations. KC shares his inner battle experience of not being able to flunk a student, no matter how hard he tried.
JUMP RIGHT TO IT!
2:15 - Rookie Teaching Myths
7:40 - "Phantom Children" Classroom Story
13:25 - Great Glitter Explosion Aftermath
21:10 - Hide and Go Seek the Lost Student
35:30 - Keeping High Spirits in Low Times
43:00 - Insane Rookie Mistakes
Teaching is a tough job, but someone's got to do it. Grab your safety coffee mug, turn the volume up, and tune in to this week’s episode of Teacher’s Off Duty!
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My first year, there was a bus accident. Three students were killed; a 5th grader in my class was among those. There were funerals for days. Eight others were seriously injured. That was over 30 years ago, and every year on November 10, I wake up thinking about that horrible day that we lost our precious babies.😢
Oh my God this is terribly awful I remember in 4th grade our PE teacher was killed in a terrible accident and our vice principals son also passed away unexpectedly within months of each other .
I'm sorry.
First year teaching art. Had to hide my scissors because a kid was stealing them, breaking them, and making shanks.
I just finished student teaching in a 1st grade class and boy did I struggle with classroom management! I am happy to know I am not the only one who struggled with it!
Girl, I student taught first grade and was cursed out by a little one daily. I learned to give him responsibility and have him help answer questions (bright kid) and eventually by the end of my time he was my little buddy. Took a minute to get there.
College field experience/ internship horror stories would be a great episode. If so, i got a story...
1st year, 4th grade teacher here! First day, dude walked into the school with a curtain rod to get some water. My second day, student had a seizure!
This is my first year teaching and let me tell you, I've gotten 0 support from admin regarding students sexually harassing me, threatening me, and it finally all came to a head when a student tried to come for me in the hallway and they got 0 consequences and pretzels.
You can file police reports and press charges.
@@teacherhelp1374My daughter works in behavior disorder classroom in elementary school and they can’t press charges.
I hear union and lawsuit.
Same here 🥹
If you can, please leave! We need teachers everywhere and it's not worth the strain to your mental health to stay at a place like that. There are supportive environments out there, there are good admin out there. Go find a better place to work!
My first year teaching was the fall of 2020 teaching kindergarten filling a maternity leave then as an itinerant! It was crazy! It was eye opening for a first year
I can say for sure that stuff for sure got lost on Google classroom! My granddaughter was a freshman in honors classes and things she submitted went into the ether!! Also, in NJ we have attendance laws! If they miss more than 15 days in a school year, they can lose credit for the class!
1st year high school math teacher. I made it through 😮💨 I'm ready for a nap. No one prepared me for the challenges of being a young teacher like being hit on by 16yos
I’ve had teenagers hit on me too as a school counselor, but it takes a mature adult to set boundaries with kids and recognize that it’s not ok.
20:24 Same as Bri in that I started in the middle of the year last year for someone who quit mid-year. It wasn’t easy. I barely got through last year.
Im chronically ill and i turned to the first year teacher one day and said "im having heart palpitations can i go to the nurse?" The color drained from her face
I have so many first-year teacher horror stories, that it's hard to choose just one. I thought I was going to literally die during my first year of teaching. I had chest pains every day. I couldn't barely sleep or eat and I got so sick that I had to take 2-weeks off with no sick leave time available. I had 45-80 kids per class because I taught chorus. I could have as many as 80 per class without a para. It was horrible!
This podcast made me feel so much better about this past year. I did not have one of the cool principals or a mentor. I was also a Covid pre-teacher with mostly online classes for secondary education. I am currently in the middle of having an existential moment and really contemplating my career choice.
Thank you ❤ I needed this.
I started teaching children with age 3 (and then infants) in a child care center setting for 8 yers (different ones in different states) in 1997. I was then a para in Special Ed Content Mastery/Resource Elementary, teaching opportuniites, and sub Elementary for 9 years before leaving for a few years. I returned after Covid (2023) and will have my own classroom in Fall 2024. I can tell you first hand how wild the ride has been (how different it is now from the beginning)
One's decision: break an ankle or a kid being in a coma... you choose. Holy some of those kids are wild 😳
All of them look like ice cream sandwhich because the white is in the middle, and the black is on the outside.
Yes, those instruction manuals were called SOPs. Standard Operating Procedure books. I needed one my first year of teaching:)
I will be a first year teacher this coming year and my principal got me the Harry Wong book so I'm happy to read it. Plus she will be my mentor teacher as well.
I teach in Michigan. MS kids can be held back they fail their classes and retake. I’m high school it’s credit based and they either do the work and pas or they fail.
Here is a good story when I took my Kdg. on a fieldtrip. We had parent help but it was back in the day when there were no background checks. Each parent had their own child and three more to watch. So, we were in small groups. Everything was fine until I saw one mom who had taken off her top and was wearing a bikini top, to get some sun. One Dad, snuck away when we all met for lunch and he went and had a beer. Two mom groups decided to combine the groups and let them run amuck. I ran into one child and asked where the parent was--they were sitting on a bench talking to each other and not watching the groups. The next year, we had to make a parent dress code and rules to follow on the school fieldtrips.....
First year teaching was always told us to be a hazing year. They would give you the hardest class with the hardest kids they would include a few who had IEP‘s, also this was the way that be more veteran teachers they get their easy class. However, this was used to help first year teachers develop those classroom management skills that honestly college programs do not prepare you for. I accidentally swore so many times it was crazy
We missed you in Macon Bri ❤ it was a GREAT SHOW!
Hoping to catch you in Kansas! Welcome home from Larned!!
I finished my first year and it was the Wild West over in kindergarten. But we got through it and I’m brave enough to try for a second year 😅
teaching 33 years!! and still going
This is my 1st Year teaching as an Elementary Music Teacher. It was rough, but it was an interesting experience. Before I became a full-time teacher I was a substitute teacher. Man was this a huge change.
Please, I'm beginning you to come to Australia
😂😂 @ Andy’s coming. I was subbing at my high school when that was popular and the students changed it from Andy to the name of the dean of discipline. Instead of falling to floor everyone would take off running. They also did a massive mannequin challenge during transition.
I’m sooo excited I’m going to the bored teachers comedy tour in two weeks (San Jose ca)
I taught during Covid. It was my tenth year, but I was pregnant. God was it difficult.
That was my favorite line man. "We hate you cause we ain't you." True. We hating cause we ain't. But for real, those teachers be my heroes. I wish I was that good off the bat. I learned through experience.
In South Carolina you can only fail a kid once every 3 years
In Canada you cannot fail a student
Come to CA!
It was the no child left behind act
So undergrad hasn't changed in 30+ years to prepare new teachers for classroom management. We met once as a cohort during our internship. All 60ish of us (1996) said the same thing. We were not prepared!! We were told there is no class or lecture to prepare us. Gotta go through it to find our way.
When I told a student to do their work I made the mistake of phrasing it “can you read this and answer the questions?” I was taken back when this kindergartener replied with “ummm…. No thank you. “ in the most polite and sincere manner.
When I was in 6th grade there was a boy named Brandon that was 16 turning 17 in the 6th grade with me. He drove to school and everything. When I moved to the 7th grade Brandon was still in the 6th grade. In the middle of 7th grade his parents were called in and told he was hopeless and they didn't to take him out of school all together. No clue what happened to him but my teachers tried their hardest to help him and he literally wouldn't try to work at all.
Florida Tampa area?!!! Plrase
What our school did for COVID-19 we started out as normal but practice the instead of six feet we did six inch rule in classrooms everywhere else not practiced anyways during the fall at the end of September into October we did Zoom meetings for three weeks and the way we did tests is by going to different rooms in our church (christian school connected to our church) and used plastic tables that were six feet long to separate us from each other didn't help the cheating situation though lol
I’m an online school teacher. Trust me it is hard
Arizona?
Not Cal
Roses are red violets are blue i liked my own comment since no one else wanted to😢😢😢😢😢
This is hilarious 😂😂😂😂
Second
first?