Remembering that time I held up history class for half an hour after causing my entire class an existential crisis when I asked why the globe is always oriented with north pointing up when there's no up or down in space. I just wanted to know whether there was a reason, or if it was just The Convention, but the whole class, including the teacher, got hung up on "there's no direction in space"
And then one of my classmates wanted to know if we could move Earth if all the people stood in the same spot
My history teacher had to text the physics teacher to explain how space works
A quick illustration of our 'Teacher story', written entirely for our own amusement. (maybe one day it will become an episode story, but it takes a hell of a lot of time to encode it, ehh.)
To be honest, it's the product of a total lack of ideas; and I just wanted to try the metallic felt pen with which I made the leafy pattern in the background. Then it looks like I ended up just loving this doodle.
My friend did Physics at A-level. He had this one teacher we'll call mr.bro. mr.bro was a fucking legend apparently. See, he taught in the secondary school next to the sixth form. He used to do all the fun experiments with the static electricity and getting people to shock each other and stuff because why not, he made lessons fun, we all liked him (I got sick of it at the end of 10 because our class were cunts so he couldn't let us do experiments.)
Anyway, mr.bro was very good at his job, my friend had him for A-level physics. He was apparently cool as shit because he knew how to make classes fun, how did he do that at A-level? Top Gear!
Apparently he just used to put on the non-studio parts of Top Gear:
(This sort of shit)
And he'd just say "Right, we did energy transfers today, show me what energy transfers take place in the episode and see how many you get right."
Now, lazy? Maybe he was. But smart? Absolutely. What he did was allow people to actually apply the shit they've learned in a fun way that still pertained to the curriculum he was made to do.
I am so fucking mad that I haven't had a teacher as good as that.
HOW TO TELL A CHILD THAT FALSE INSULTS ARE NOT INSULTING WITHOUT INVALIDATING THEIR HURT FEELINGS:
So, a kid just called her friend ugly. This is a petty fight, and a weak-ass insult, but these children are small and so this is, to them, a monumental slight. How do you explain that this isn't really worth getting upset over, but without brushing aside the kid's feelings?
Tell her that her hair is purple.
She will be confused.
Tell her that not only is her hair purple, it is also green with giant pink stripes.
She will begin to laugh. The child recognizes that what you are saying is not true, and therefore not even remotely insulting.
Now, bring it back around to the problem at hand. "Someone called you ugly? Well, are you ugly?" Obviously not!
Connect this to the purple-hair scenario. "Being told that you're ugly is like being told that your hair is purple. It's pretty silly, and it isn't even true!"
Without realizing it, that child just modeled the correct response for themself, and you can tell them so!
When the teacher who organizes the end-of-year party makes a mistake by putting on his costume and wears it backwards…..The lion's tail in front and not behind…
all workers' strikes are good. yes even if they're inconvenient. even if they're making your life harder. even if you don't get to watch your favourite tv show. workers fighting for their rights is ALWAYS a good thing
One of my best history teachers ever, first day, told us that you can convince anyone of anything if you explain it long enough and back it up with enough sources - and of course, know history really well. He then went on for 45 minutes connecting the crusades to the 9/11 terrorist attacks and I still fully believe that it had a very long run contribution
Some doodles for my Teacher! Sun and Moon designs. I couldn’t decide if I liked Sun with pupils vs no pupils so you guys get both lskhdglkdhg
I’ve decided that Sun is your regular kindergarden teacher/daycare attendant during the day and Moon is the Attendnat that cares for kids who’s parents work the nightshift and have no one to watch the young ones at home :D
pov you walk into your local kindergarden doubling daycare and see these guys, wyd?
children are being exposed to so much sexualization and sexualized content nowadays that even elementary students are frightening their teachers with the stuff they're saying even if they don't understand what it means. just the amount of misogyny and porn rot that has trickled down to literal children being exposed to it constantly and thinking its just hilarious and funny is terrifying.
I explained what the diaphragm is to a student (muscle in your belly, I use it to make my voice louder so you can hear when it's time to line up) and she turns to another kid to explain, very seriously, that "A diagram is when you scream and you can hear it in your belly."
A teacher in Florida is being investigated by the state for ‘indoctrination’ after showing a Disney film which features a prominent gay character. The investigation comes after fifth grade teacher Jenna Barbee showed her class Disney’s 2022 animated movie Strange World as a “brain break”, following a morning of standardized testing. The film features Ethan, an openly gay character, and a romantic plot between Ethan and his crush, Diazo. On TikTok, the teacher said she chose to show the film because it fit in with the class’s curriculum, as they are currently learning about ecosystems. The LGBTQ+ element was not the reason she put the movie on, but described it as “harmless”. Barbee claims she was reported to the state by a school board member, who she says is on a “rampage” against any form of representation in schools and her daughter was in the classroom watching Strange World. A tweet by Barbee’s friend, Carl Zee, shows a letter from the Florida Department of Education which states the teacher is being investigated for “inappropriate conduct”. “If you have evidentiary witnesses or documents pertinent to the case, send them to this office no later than two weeks from receipt of this letter,” the letter states. “[The students] didn’t even know this was a big deal until the board member and the state made it a big deal. “They’re using it against me saying they’re ‘protecting the children’ and it’s for their safety. But what is this actually showing them?” Barbee questioned in the video. She said the investigation is more “traumatising” for the youngsters than the film was in the fist place. “But the minor representations, that have nothing to do with the movie, are such a big deal that now admin in is in their room, pulling their teacher out, calling the students one by one down to the office to interrogate them in the middle of my lessons,” she said. The teacher added that a number of her students had told her they are members of the LGBTQ+ community, prior to the film being shown.
This does not matter and will not affect your life at all, but a split infinitive is when you put a word between “to” and “your verb” eg., “to boldly go” rather than “to go boldly.”
Sincerely,
Your friendly neighborhood English teacher
you'd think that they would have gone over that at least once during my literal actual college writing degree that i graduated with. but no!