As a substitute, I have found, more often than not, that students in middle school who get up to sharpen their pencils are usually the least likely to actually use those pencils during class. Usually, it's just an excuse to get up, take a walk, and chat with friends along the way.
@@eli3568 I can't blame children for wanting to do that...but there's a difference between what a child wants to do versus what they should be allowed to do. Doing what you want to do, especially when you're a child, is not necessarily normal, healthy, or good. Children, by their nature, want to do childish things that could result in really bad consequences. That might be normal for a child, but that's where adults have to step in. There's a time and a place for taking a walk and talking with friends. Class time is not the time or place.
Watching this at lunch and I have my biggest pencil sharpener offender next period. I am soooo standing next to the pencil sharpener the whole class and doing this to my students in about 6 minutes
Hilarious! You need to do a part 2. The indignance when they are bust doing something, talking about Fortnite gaming when they are meant to be working, constant visits to the bathroom. Don’t forget the asking what they need to do when you have just explained. Oh! And “This is so boring! Why do we have to do this?!”
Ah, the answer to that boring question is, “incredibly, science shows that boredom actually makes your brain grow more brain cells! Just my fun factoid for today!”
The snide comments part is so accurate. The comments these kids make crack me up. I work in elementary so thankfully most of the kids don't cuss at you. But they find other ways to try to cut you down. Gotta love that honesty! 😂
As a student, I hated group work because I’d end up doing the large majority of it and everyone would get the grade I earned. If I refused, then I’d get the low grade which didn’t go unpunished at home. My parents would say the chain was as good as the weakest link. Don’t be that link!
This is why some teachers, like myself, still do group work but mark it individually (there are ways to do that). It keeps the collaboration and working with others thing intact while not getting those kids with parents who are upset over grades in trouble. One of my kids got bullied by other girls who “put more effort in” specifically. Their parents were definitely a factor but my daughter had a learning issue with modifications: she did what was expected of her. So, yes, group work is upsetting for lots of kids but the construct is the key. (Collaborating with teachers/admin we don’t align with well is a real thing too. We just don’t do the “big drama” moment as adults…well, most of us). 😂
I think my strongest reaction was to the pencil thrown on the floor. My students are always asking me for a pencil. But then cleaning up I find so many pencils on the floor.
While doing IT in a middle school for about a year, I got to hear things in classrooms during teaching. An eighth grade girl once asked female teacher, "Miss Evans, are those your clothes? Naw, because I just thought I saw Miss Johnson wearing them yesterday. Did y'all stay together last night? Is she wearing your clothes from yesterday?" I just had to run for my life. I almost didn't make it out of the roombefore I erupted. Teachers saw me running down the hall, toward a closet. I explained it in the staff meeting. Miss Evans said she saw me trying to keep it together until I could break out. She appreciated my discretion, but it still made her laugh at me, a little. She told the girl, "No, Iesha, these are clothes your dad bought me." The gasp was heard in the hall, and the air handlers strained to replace the oxygen in that classroom. But miss thing kept her comments to her bad self the rest of that day. Miss Evans was applauded in the staff meeting.
Hubs is a teacher ( can't wait to show him this when he gets home from school! ) He says kids used to like movies and now they hate when he shows one. They're too long for today's attention span!!!
When I was a kid, we didn't do nearly as much group work. I still hated it when we did it. As a para, I have total sympathy for the kids when they hate it too.
Wait, we don’t actually say those things out loud, uh oh, I’m in trouble now. I love the Blooms Taxonomy by the desk, could just have destroyed that accidentally!
4:30 too bad so sad - Chromebook = everything stored on the cloud so log into my computer and give 'er! Bahahaha! (I've had the pleasure of pulling that out on a couple kids in my career tee hee!)
I do wish likeminded people could take classes together rather than all the "teachable moments" of group work with people who essentially are bullies. I'm 50 now and people that sucked when they were 6 years old still suck when they are 60 years old. There is a lack of personality awareness and learning styles that sadly doesn't get discovered until school has long passed. People less extremely obvious than Temple Grandin go through school being treated like they are lazy, daydreaming, poor students, when in reality they are visual thinkers floating in a curriculum designed for verbal thinkers only. Sorry, this video is probably funny, but I work with an OCPD manager that makes life a living hell, and I KNEW something wasn't right with him on day one, and yet I still have to work with him when I wish I would have felt more empowered to say "Hey. I don't want to work with OCPD guy. We don't work well together and I know I won't get anything done working with him, and it will demoralize, fatigue, and traumatize me to where I won't get anything done for the rest of the semester if I'm in constant fear of having to be bullied by this guy." I don't know why I'm commenting, really. It just popped up in my feed and life has been a stressful journey of being a very strong skilled introvert working with very dominating and shallow skilled extroverts that get into management from butt-kissing. There is this false premise that an introvert will learn something by working with an extrovert, and usually that lesson ends up being that there is zero point in working with an extrovert when introverts can simply mask as extroverts when needed without losing all the empathy and compassion that comes with introversion.
I was an introvert for most of my life. I was always scared to do basic things, like I tried out for cheerleading, and I actually got on to the cheerleading squad. I was just too terrified to actually do it, so I backed out. Same thing with the full ride scholarship that I got to Northwestern. I was just too scared to do it, so when I went to my local college, and no one that I knew was there. There was a rock climbing wall, I desperately have always wanted to climb one and yet I was terrified. I didn't do it so now at 41, I am the biggest extrovert because I feel as though I have lost too many opportunities in life to do things. When the people around me didn't matter, there's no point in being scared. If you talk to me now, I'm a kind of a loud mouth, honest and personable. I'll try to make anybody laugh and smile, if you don't have a smile on your face then something's wrong with your day. I just wish I could go back in time and change it, there's no reason to be scared but I hope you come out of your shell. Not everybody is awful and sometimes introverts need to speak up, so that someone is heard other than just the loud mouth, jackasses in the crowd. Remember usually it's just that one person fidgeting in the crowd to know that you're not alone.
Almost every group project. Later, teacher, can I improve my grade by doing all the work my group didn't produce? Honestly, I would have just done all of this on my own. Picked a topic I liked and less traumatic for me. 😖
@@blugreen123 Real life is full of teamwork situations, and often the best jobs require you to produce a complex work product with multiple people. Group projects are a great way to learn those skills. Group work can be stressful, but if your response to stress is just to shut down (as opposed to learning new skills that make the thing less stressful), that’s not the expectation being unfair; that’s a sign it’s time for _you_ to grow (or seek professional help if you can’t). It’s also OK to ask the teacher for help navigating group dynamics. For major group projects, I give my students a short survey at the end. I explicitly ask if the work was shared fairly and, if I find out a student wasn’t pulling their weight, I penalize that student.
@@Nikifuj908I do group work but pull the anxiety piece by marking individually. The kids with high-flier parents don’t stress about a bad grade the whole time and the kids with specific needs/modifications don’t stress about other kids getting on their case for not doing enough. They still have to collaborate, though, as that’s the real point. The survey at the end helps: I don’t just want to know who “didn’t do the work” but set expectations for success as embedded criteria. Examples: choose a group member who took the best notes, a group member who was the most encouraging to the other members, etc.
As a substitute, I have found, more often than not, that students in middle school who get up to sharpen their pencils are usually the least likely to actually use those pencils during class. Usually, it's just an excuse to get up, take a walk, and chat with friends along the way.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣well of course. You must be young.
I have a pencil container that has sharpened pencils without erasers. Kids walk in, take a pencil. I control the 2 shared erasers. No time wasted. Lol
I can't really blame a person for wanting to get up, take a walk, and chat with their friends. That's just normal, healthy human behavior.
@@eli3568 I can't blame children for wanting to do that...but there's a difference between what a child wants to do versus what they should be allowed to do. Doing what you want to do, especially when you're a child, is not necessarily normal, healthy, or good. Children, by their nature, want to do childish things that could result in really bad consequences. That might be normal for a child, but that's where adults have to step in. There's a time and a place for taking a walk and talking with friends. Class time is not the time or place.
Yep, this is true.
I liked the one about meeting after school. My mom said you can't make me.
Watching this at lunch and I have my biggest pencil sharpener offender next period. I am soooo standing next to the pencil sharpener the whole class and doing this to my students in about 6 minutes
Favoritism for Teachers with principals is REAL!
Terrifyingly accurate. Too funny.
And this is why I took the electric pencil sharpener out of my room and bought handheld sharpeners at Dollar Tree.
brillant
I’m not a teacher, and this is still relatable to corporate America. ❤️🥴
😂😂😂💯 I started there as a teen and still transitioned to teaching. It felt like maybe there was hope? Maybe? 😂
In my experience: after finally accepting that they have to work in a group, next question is, "Can I go to the bathroom?"
Hilarious! You need to do a part 2. The indignance when they are bust doing something, talking about Fortnite gaming when they are meant to be working, constant visits to the bathroom. Don’t forget the asking what they need to do when you have just explained. Oh! And “This is so boring! Why do we have to do this?!”
Ah, the answer to that boring question is, “incredibly, science shows that boredom actually makes your brain grow more brain cells! Just my fun factoid for today!”
The snide comments part is so accurate. The comments these kids make crack me up. I work in elementary so thankfully most of the kids don't cuss at you. But they find other ways to try to cut you down. Gotta love that honesty! 😂
I love watching these even when they give me PTSD from 21 years of teaching 8th grade.
The hitting of the door frame, so true 😂😂😂
As a student, I hated group work because I’d end up doing the large majority of it and everyone would get the grade I earned. If I refused, then I’d get the low grade which didn’t go unpunished at home. My parents would say the chain was as good as the weakest link. Don’t be that link!
This is why some teachers, like myself, still do group work but mark it individually (there are ways to do that). It keeps the collaboration and working with others thing intact while not getting those kids with parents who are upset over grades in trouble. One of my kids got bullied by other girls who “put more effort in” specifically. Their parents were definitely a factor but my daughter had a learning issue with modifications: she did what was expected of her. So, yes, group work is upsetting for lots of kids but the construct is the key.
(Collaborating with teachers/admin we don’t align with well is a real thing too. We just don’t do the “big drama” moment as adults…well, most of us). 😂
Bro totally me today I'm independent and I can't stand people in my school
I have a part of the rubric for engagement with the group. So if one person does nothing they get fewer marks than everyone else in the group.
As a middle school teacher, I can SO RELATE 😂
I think my strongest reaction was to the pencil thrown on the floor. My students are always asking me for a pencil. But then cleaning up I find so many pencils on the floor.
Wuahahhaha
🤣🤣🤣
Like the way you jump in front of the class and you wear sunglasses ... Way yoo 😍👍
2:41 As a teacher, this is my reaction to meetings afterschool. Some of these were "if Teachers acted like teachers" to me
😂😂
The ACCURACY!!! And it doesn't matter what grade you teach. It still rings true!
This is so completely accurate! 🤣
This is sooo funny...as a child & an adult I see it!!!🤣💯💕🙏🏽
While doing IT in a middle school for about a year, I got to hear things in classrooms during teaching. An eighth grade girl once asked female teacher, "Miss Evans, are those your clothes? Naw, because I just thought I saw Miss Johnson wearing them yesterday. Did y'all stay together last night? Is she wearing your clothes from yesterday?"
I just had to run for my life. I almost didn't make it out of the roombefore I erupted. Teachers saw me running down the hall, toward a closet. I explained it in the staff meeting.
Miss Evans said she saw me trying to keep it together until I could break out. She appreciated my discretion, but it still made her laugh at me, a little. She told the girl, "No, Iesha, these are clothes your dad bought me." The gasp was heard in the hall, and the air handlers strained to replace the oxygen in that classroom. But miss thing kept her comments to her bad self the rest of that day.
Miss Evans was applauded in the staff meeting.
Hubs is a teacher ( can't wait to show him this when he gets home from school! ) He says kids used to like movies and now they hate when he shows one. They're too long for today's attention span!!!
I am showing this to my classes tomorrow.
@ 0:44 was funny but @ 3:33 I lost it ... That happens every ... single ... day ... two or three times per class
No Lie!
I'm handing in a note like that next Staff Meeting.
When I was a kid, we didn't do nearly as much group work. I still hated it when we did it. As a para, I have total sympathy for the kids when they hate it too.
Yes, to all of that. Very good therapy for me
You gave me a good strong laugh at how this is relatable.
Wait, we don’t actually say those things out loud, uh oh, I’m in trouble now.
I love the Blooms Taxonomy by the desk, could just have destroyed that accidentally!
Aren't teachers like this in every staff meeting or PD 😂?
I am gonna show this to my students😅😂
4:30 too bad so sad - Chromebook = everything stored on the cloud so log into my computer and give 'er! Bahahaha!
(I've had the pleasure of pulling that out on a couple kids in my career tee hee!)
The chair placements...😆😆😆
Kids do these things?! Whaaaaat? I ask this as the super shy kid in class who never spoke and was terrified of every single other person around me.
This is GOLD
I swear l had this teacher (student) in my period 5 last year. You nailed it...
The accuracy!!!!😂
I do wish likeminded people could take classes together rather than all the "teachable moments" of group work with people who essentially are bullies. I'm 50 now and people that sucked when they were 6 years old still suck when they are 60 years old. There is a lack of personality awareness and learning styles that sadly doesn't get discovered until school has long passed. People less extremely obvious than Temple Grandin go through school being treated like they are lazy, daydreaming, poor students, when in reality they are visual thinkers floating in a curriculum designed for verbal thinkers only.
Sorry, this video is probably funny, but I work with an OCPD manager that makes life a living hell, and I KNEW something wasn't right with him on day one, and yet I still have to work with him when I wish I would have felt more empowered to say "Hey. I don't want to work with OCPD guy. We don't work well together and I know I won't get anything done working with him, and it will demoralize, fatigue, and traumatize me to where I won't get anything done for the rest of the semester if I'm in constant fear of having to be bullied by this guy."
I don't know why I'm commenting, really. It just popped up in my feed and life has been a stressful journey of being a very strong skilled introvert working with very dominating and shallow skilled extroverts that get into management from butt-kissing. There is this false premise that an introvert will learn something by working with an extrovert, and usually that lesson ends up being that there is zero point in working with an extrovert when introverts can simply mask as extroverts when needed without losing all the empathy and compassion that comes with introversion.
I was an introvert for most of my life. I was always scared to do basic things, like I tried out for cheerleading, and I actually got on to the cheerleading squad. I was just too terrified to actually do it, so I backed out. Same thing with the full ride scholarship that I got to Northwestern. I was just too scared to do it, so when I went to my local college, and no one that I knew was there. There was a rock climbing wall, I desperately have always wanted to climb one and yet I was terrified. I didn't do it so now at 41, I am the biggest extrovert because I feel as though I have lost too many opportunities in life to do things. When the people around me didn't matter, there's no point in being scared. If you talk to me now, I'm a kind of a loud mouth, honest and personable. I'll try to make anybody laugh and smile, if you don't have a smile on your face then something's wrong with your day. I just wish I could go back in time and change it, there's no reason to be scared but I hope you come out of your shell. Not everybody is awful and sometimes introverts need to speak up, so that someone is heard other than just the loud mouth, jackasses in the crowd. Remember usually it's just that one person fidgeting in the crowd to know that you're not alone.
What I don’t like about group work in a math class is when you have to take a lower grade because you know the answer and no one believes you.
Love it
No lies were told!
There is also the "I'm going to report you" statement 😂😢
I have experienced almost everything that you said except maybe one thing you are not lying.
Almost every group project. Later, teacher, can I improve my grade by doing all the work my group didn't produce? Honestly, I would have just done all of this on my own. Picked a topic I liked and less traumatic for me. 😖
I hated group projects so much. They gave me so much anxiety and stress that I would just shut down.
@@blugreen123 Real life is full of teamwork situations, and often the best jobs require you to produce a complex work product with multiple people. Group projects are a great way to learn those skills.
Group work can be stressful, but if your response to stress is just to shut down (as opposed to learning new skills that make the thing less stressful), that’s not the expectation being unfair; that’s a sign it’s time for _you_ to grow (or seek professional help if you can’t). It’s also OK to ask the teacher for help navigating group dynamics.
For major group projects, I give my students a short survey at the end. I explicitly ask if the work was shared fairly and, if I find out a student wasn’t pulling their weight, I penalize that student.
@@Nikifuj908I do group work but pull the anxiety piece by marking individually. The kids with high-flier parents don’t stress about a bad grade the whole time and the kids with specific needs/modifications don’t stress about other kids getting on their case for not doing enough. They still have to collaborate, though, as that’s the real point. The survey at the end helps: I don’t just want to know who “didn’t do the work” but set expectations for success as embedded criteria. Examples: choose a group member who took the best notes, a group member who was the most encouraging to the other members, etc.
This is so accurate 🤣
Hilarious
No dumb phone incident 😅
Duty lol i got the maturity of a 5 year old😂
I didn't work well with Mrs. ohnson either. Not the Mrs. Johnson that taught 5th grade with me, at my school in 2018-19...
I always got annoyed when a teacher partnered me or put me in a group with students I didn't get along with
the accuracy
Yeppp,that’s how it is😣😣😣
Hilarious!!🤣
😂 True story!
Too funny-!
ALL TRUE 😂
Thanks
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why do american classrooms have those pencil sharpeners? they’re just not a thing in britain
NH represent!!! 🙂
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Wow I wish I was that hot TILF’s husband
So do u actually listen to good suggestions like don’t put me with _