Today, it was the last day of school. My students shared what they thought of me. Expecting to hear wonderful things, all of their complaints can be summed up in a few words: I'm a liar, a killer of dreams, I need to grow up, and I was a big disappointment to them. I'm a first-year teacher. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, it was the last day of school, and I said goodbye to one of my students. She then told me how to correctly pronounce her name. I'd said it wrong all year. FML
Today, I ran into my favorite teacher from high school, the one that really inspired me to become one myself. I told her that I'm in my last year of college preparing to become a teacher, to which she replied, "Wow, they really are letting anyone have a crack at being a teacher these days." FML
Today, I started my first teaching job ever. As I was teaching, another teacher interrupted my class about 5 times because she thought it was her class. Not only did she ruin my confidence, her behavior caused my students to laugh at me. FML
Today, I went to my first class of the year. The first thing the teacher said was, "I hate this f*cking school." FML
Today, the feedback my teacher wrote on my English assignment was so horrible that it took me half an hour and help from both my parents to decipher it. It turned out to be a scathing criticism of my "poor communication skills". I hate my teachers. FML
Today, I had 15 teenagers literally laugh in my face when I asked them to be quiet. I'm a student teaching in a high school, which is the culmination of 2 years of my life and $20,000, and I might in fact actually hate doing it. FML
Today, I’m a high school teacher and I finally learned how to use the smartboard properly. I connected my laptop to demonstrate a lesson… and projected the last thing I had open: a half-written email complaining about how loud this exact class is. Thirty teenagers read it in silence. One kid raised his hand and said, “Fair.” FML
Today, I lectured my second-grade class to be more descriptive in their writing. I gave them an assignment to describe something in the classroom. I was grading their work later, and one student wrote, "My class is taught by a fat teacher with gray hair." FML
Today, I started at a new school. It's a pretty great school, but there's only one problem: Everybody thinks I'm a teacher. I'm only a freshman. FML
Today, I’m a middle-school teacher. Handing back graded essays, only to realize halfway through that I’d left my personal notes visible on the projector. One said, “Great kid, but talks like a podcast on 1.5x speed.” The student read it out loud before I could close the tab. FML
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BrittanyCelesteP 0
...Maybe over the summer you should consider changing a smidge.
marinus_fml 20
Teachers like you are the reason society has gone backwards. No wonder teen suicide rates are going up, teens living on the streets doing drugs and alcohol, get high off paint and petrol and then start graffitiying everywhere. Yea you should be shot. Jks, that sucks OP, should have brought them all cookies and ice-cream on their last day! Suddenly you'll be their favorite teacher!
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KickItHigh 32
School's out already? Your school must've started in August... I had a new teacher in 4th grade, he was... adequate. Take some more teaching classes... Or be nicer. Geez.
waterboy14 7
like Bradbury lol
ohhheyythere91 4
Tough crowd. :O
ITIvRAPTORvITI 0
oh god, I had a teacher like that. horrible.
KayleeFrye 39
WARNING: Long-winded comment ahead! OP, I completely understand your desire for feedback from your students, but asking them for it outright is the wrong way to get it. It makes it look like you're fishing for compliments and like you have no confidence. No matter what age group you're teaching, students often don't want to praise their teacher in front of their classmates. Chances are they will try to impress their friends, thinking it will make them look cool for trashing you to your face. Don't get discouraged, the first few years of teaching are the hardest. (I hope I don't sound patronizing, because that's not the tone I'm going for.) Next time, pass out papers and tell them NOT to put their name on it. Ask them to write a few anonymous comments on what they liked and did not like about your class. Don't ask them for comments about YOU, but ask them if there was anything you could have done differently to make class more interesting. This shows them that you value their opinions, and that you care about being the best teacher possible. They feel safe that they will stay anonymous, and are more likely to be honest. There will always be a few smart ass kids who might be mean, but you can usually tell who's giving constructive criticism and who just has a chip on their shoulder. I do this every year, and it's been very helpful. Plus, I can usually tell who wrote each comment, because after an entire school year, you learn to recognize handwriting. The students don't need to know that, though! ;)
angryreimu 0
These kids in this age don't know what they're missing! Knowledge is power!
Shlizabeth 0
Lol. :)
spec2662 0
tough break, hopefully you learn from it and will actually be as good as you think for your second year.
itswhateveridk 0
I hate teachers like that
hurley007 0
is your last name Cantrell?