Oh and one last one "Not being able to get an ongoing position despite being told repeatedly there is a teacher shortage" 🙄 #primaryteachers #schoolteacher #primaryteacher #lols #povyoure #teachers Merch 👉👉 linktr.ee/jimm...
You forgot "playing a million games of heads down thumbs up when you need a filler or some peace and quiet because it get the class to sit still in perfect silence for 5 minutes under the guise of a fun game"
Playing Sleeping Lions. Took me far too long to realise it was a ploy to get a classroom to be still and silent, splayed out on the floor. Clever Miss Joy, very clever.
The late duty partner or worse the person who is late to release you from duty...This video is demonstrates more recognition than most teachers get, well done.
Totally. Also the side eyes at that person who asks questions in the staff meeting that was finishing early… The ability to triage between, eating lunch, going to the toilet, last minute photocopying or reheating your cold instant coffee… Hubby is a real estate agent…
Not a teacher nor a parent but it had me laughing…then the kicker at the end with the up next has me laughing more and looking forward to it! 🤣thanks Jimmy 👍
We have one but it’s only for special occasions because we all refused to go on the roster. And as a specialist, I’m just gonna go back to planning my ONE lesson to teach to 24 classes over and over. 🙄
@@jeannedarc1566 oh really? It was always part of the cleaning staff duties to unpack it in the afternoons. We indivially put dirties in during the morning and once we finished lunch, last staff member to finish up lunch put powder in and pressed start.
Have you been a teacher Jimmy? Because this is way too accurate for you not to be, or not be surrounded by teacher friends that bitch to you about this stuff :P
I was wondering where the 'Using your evenings/weekends/holidays for catching up on all the admin, PL, reporting, data analysis, programming, and planning' was, but realised it must be one of those bulky items that are too heavy to take out of the trolley to scan. Thank you for the laughs!
Very accurate about where we get our resources too! Another good video, it’s great that we can laugh about our own profession. You could’ve included leadership team asking you to do an assessment task to collect data, but then not really using the data effectively, having meetings that would’ve been better as an email, or having to buy more stationery because some parents think that 1 whiteboard marker will last their child for the whole year (your checkout beeper may have exploded at that!)
Oh! I remember the excursion to the waste water treatment plant. Grade 6 it was. It was part of the lessons we were doing about water, water use, water treatment, etc. 10 year old me found it quite interesting actually. The smells were a bit much though!
Oh god, being in high school and watching this makes me really feel bad for my primary school teachers. In all seriousness, teachers deserve the best this world has to offer. A lot of my teachers, especially my primary school ones, are a big factor in who I am now and I can't thank them enough for it. Teaching is a hard job, and something I feel like us students don't really appreciate (since we're too busy talking shit about the ones who are harsh markers-), especially during remote learning. Teachers are such a gift, I doubt society would be anything without them.
In 1973 we had lovely Miss Austin, who became Mrs. Graham over the Christmas holidays, and by chance I had her for two years running (combined year classes). It took my 9-year-old brain several months to cotton on to the fact that they were the same person.
OMG yes! I'm not a teacher anymore, but I did teach for 10 years over in China at a Chinese- International primary school. My kids could smell me coming a mile away every morning, carrying my McCafe coffee (wanker coffee? Yeah, I lived in Guangzhou and Mcafe is VERY much a thing there!) with no less than 3 pens/ pencils stuffed into my ponytail. And my students actually started copying me doing that, it was adorable! Teaching, good times......
“1,2,3! Eyes on me! 3,2,1! Ears are on!” That transitioned from my days as a primary school teacher and now I’m into swim teaching. But this rang so true and made me remember why I got out of primary school teaching.
...as well as inflicting UTIs on kids who haven't had time to go to the toilet that morning and have to hold their bladder contents until recess. Then they don't get an opportunity during lunch time because all the school thugs are in the loop lighting up and you are busting to go before home time and the loos are shut because the school janitor locked the look for the day after lunchtime. Or was this only in the 1970s? Yes, the tough Primary kids were smoking at age 12.
Yeah I as a adhd and dyslexic kid I hated all my teachers and my mother was a real estate agent with a problematic kid who only got paid when she sold a house … I fucken hated her pager and fucken hated her mobile phone and hated all those fucken home opens and bullshit sucking up to people she had to do . But she did it to keep a roof over our head . I so maybee it was worth all the screaming and shouting .. I’m only 38 I’m still trying to process .
A Best Teacher iIn The World Mug! 😂😂😂 123 Look at me😂😂😂 And yes i was one of those students that gave a teacher a Bath Bomb🥴 (Teachers outer voice… Aww thank you Teachers inner voice …Another fkn Bath Bomb!!!)😂😂😂😂 Thanks Jimmy 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻Loved the Brisbane show on Wednesday and it was so fantastic to meet you! You are such a great guy and so kind❤️
There are never ANY forks in the staff room - so true!!! But they aren’t really holidays, they’re time in lieu of all the extra hours & hours of work crammed into term time; or time to go to the dentist/specialist/get your tax done/car serviced, etc, OR, often when teachers get sick!
hhahaha the keys! I'm the maintenance person at a government school and when they handed me the keys to the "school", i thought it was joke. A lanyard of about 50 keys. What do they all open? I'm still searching for the chamber of secrets.
Saw your show in Brisbane on Wednesday night. You absolutely rocked. It was the best show I had seen in ages! Thank you for keeping me sane during COVID and making us all laugh looking back at it!
Laughed out loud! Especially at the next installment! !! So much negative experience with them. But also the best experience with the good one's You are the best! LOL every time! !
I no longer have a child at school so I have the envious ability not to know when school holidays are or having to plan a trip in grid locked traffic for a getaway you can't afford.
Perhaps add "lollies", "treats" and "stickers", because if a primary teacher isn't spending about a quarter of their budget on buying things for their class ...
I'm a specialist and I WISH I did the same bloody lesson all week. In theory I have 4 different lesson plans across 14 difference classes. In practice it's... 14 different lesson plans.
I have never heard the flat tire one. I am going to use that one when the volume is starting to go up. Honestly to save my voice I stopped talking over my students to be heard. All vocal attention grabbers are used when the students are quiet enough or if the volume is not unbearable yet. For times they are too loud I bought several bells and placed them strategically around the room. When one isn't in reach I use the clap sequence that requires the students to clap twice in return.
A surprisingly high percentage of this applies to secondary teachers as well! In fact, you could probably re-upload with a new title and no edits and hit the mark.
