Would give so much to have more teachers like you. I know how important it is to have teachers who listen to you, I spent a lot of my years in school confiding to teachers because I had nobody else, I know if I attended MSD I would’ve talked to you too, because you’re so kind and caring towards your students. You’re such a vital part of your students lives, thank you for what you do!
i'm in senior year and i want to be a 5'3" english and history teacher. you, ms. honey (matilda), and mr keating (dead poets society) are my teacher inspo
Loved this! Oh my gosh as someone majoring in Elementary Education I can TOTALLY attest to the fact that they see trough “fake” teachers! They are so much more engaged and well behaved when you are real with them!
This video could not have come at a better time! I start my first day as a first year teacher, teaching 9th and 10th grade English. I am terrified, so this video was very helpful! I’m so worried I’m not going to be prepared or be on the same track as the other teachers. You inspire me though, so thank you for giving me the motivation to do my best as a teacher! 💕💕
Be humble, plan ahead, pinterest calenders, write the month out, google docs for lesson plans, be organized, time management, where to manage paper, use a file cabinet, in/out folder, strict consistent rules (gum, water drinking, food eating, etc), know your classroom management, messages on board for what to do (list of to do's on board), writing agenda, having a warm up, cell phone policy, find out what excited them and put it in the lesson plan, whats relevant to them, research and reflect, build relationships with students, what can I do better with that lesson, why did I do that lesson, talk to veteran teachers, adapt what they are doing, follow teachers on line, conferences, connect with teachers, self care so you feel your best...even though I have heard most of this in other teacher tip videos, its good to hear it said again. I like how its very condensed, sort of an outline of teaching.
I just want to let you know, whether you see this comment or not, that you inspire me everyday. I have been following you for awhile and you truly what I love about this profession. This is my first year teaching and it has been so hard for me. I actually broke down crying watching this video. I have constantly felt as if I have failed my students and made more mistakes than accomplishments. I want to be better for my students but it’s challenging when I feel alone, upset, and like I’m drowning in the one thing I truly love. My favorite part of my day is being at school and with my students, but I feel like I could be doing more to make an impact in their day. Thank you for just continuously spreading joy and encouragement-a lot of teachers need that, especially those who don’t really have a good support system. I am thankful for you ❤️ Keep being a light in this world!
You are literally my inspiration! I’m five foot one too!😂 literally 2 years left in college then I’m an educator!! Thank you for being someone to truly look up to. I literally have the same teaching philosophy as you. We need more educators like you and I hope to become one💗
I started 2019 knowing what i want to be after i graduate, and you are one of the reasons I chose teaching. You inspire me so much. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I just finished my student teaching experience and graduated with an Art Education degree! My goal for 2019 is to change my channel into something similar to yours! I am so happy I found your channel not only for inspiration as a channel but to have someone like you as a inspiration as a person! I love your positive vibes 💕 keep going!!
I start my student teaching next week and am so nervous! You really helped ease my nerves and I am so excited to learn to be the best teacher I can be! I'll begin my first year teaching at 22 and am so excited! 😄 Thank you for being so inspiring!! 💕
I have been an early childhood special education teacher for the 23 years. I recently stumbled upon your awesome channel. I appreciate teachers like you who truly care about and respect their students. Your enthusiasm is contagious and I can see by the comments that you are inspiring the next generation of teachers! Keep up the great work! 😁
I teach kindergarten, but I LOVE your channel! I am in my first year, and I watch your videos when I feel like I need some inspiration. Thank you so much for sharing your journey and for being a light to a rookie like me!
Thank you so much for making this video. While I am predominantly a history teacher, I still teach a class or two of English each year. There is definitely a need for more teachers to share their experiences on RU-vid like you have done. Thank you sharing your wisdom and I look forward to a few more videos of your thoughts about being a teacher. Keep up the great work!
this video was wonderful! i’m currently a high school senior that will graduate in may this year and then go to a university in the fall to study elementary education. i’m beyond nervous, but binge-watching your videos has inspired me so much. thank YOU!
It’s crazy I’ve been watching your videos from the beginning and I’ve always had a passion for literature. I’ve had so many dreams of careers and always come back to wanting to be a high school English teacher. I feel like I have a lot of growth to do as a young adult in my early twenties. But the more I watch your videos the more I realize that I want to go back to school and pursue my dreams. ❤️ p.s. thanks for all the fun and inspiring and entertaining content! You make so many of your subscribers days!
Thank you SO much for your enthusiasm and encouragement for teaching! I truly needed this video since I'm starting student teaching in one week, can't wait to get to know my sweet third graders. This video made me even more pumped to get in the classroom!!
Hi! I just wanted to say that your videos are so inspiring. I’m a senior in high school and planning to major in English in college. My school does this thing where in the last quarter of school they let seniors do an internship, and I’m going to be working with a high school English teacher for mine. It is clear that you have a true passion for education and I wish there were more educators like you. You have inspired me to try something that I might have never tried otherwise. Thank you
Hi Brittany! I found your channel a couple days ago, and I love that you find time to be a teacher and make youtube videos! I'm in school right now to be an elementary school teacher, and I'm actually in the process of applying to get into the education program. Everything is due in about a month, some of it even earlier in about two weeks, and I'm feeling a little overwhelmed. It encourages me so much to see that other people have done this before me, and that you can go straight from college to teaching and be successful at it! Thank you so much for making videos.
First year high school teacher here who LOVES your channel! I don't live nearby any of my teaching friends who are also in their 20's, so it's so nice to watch someone like you on youtube who just gets it. Thank you for these videos- your positivity always inspires me!
I am a teacher myself, and you are seriously such an inspiration! I hope to one day be a teacher like you. I love your energy and positivity always. Sending you love from near you, Miami!!
As an incoming teacher, I know this video will be a reference that I will be rewatching over and over! Thank you for all your advice-your truly an inspiration and I would love to meet you one day!!!
Currently an Education major at FSU! You inspire me so much and I can’t wait to become a teacher. Hopefully I can open up and be as positive as you are in your classroom! Thank you for all the helpful videos. You’re amazing :)
So helpful. thank you so much for this! I’m a freshman and majoring in elementary education. I hope to inspire and impact my future students just as much as you do❤️
I start my student teaching internship semester next week and I can’t tell you how much I needed this video!!! My placement is not the one I wished for but I can still go in open minded and learn so much!! 8th Grade Science, here I come!
I can’t tell you how inspiring you’ve been to me. I’ve wanted to be a teacher my entire life and with the scary world we live in, this kind of positive and encouraging outlook on life and learning is so so refreshing and inspiring ❤️
I’m so happy I found you on Instagram! I’m in my 3rd year teaching and I love your videos! Your positivity is contagious and you make me want to continue improving in this profession of ours! Thanks for sharing your journey with us!
I’ve been feelinh really down this year as I’m a first year teacher who feels like she doesn’t know what she’s doing at all. You made me feel so much better with this video and I plan on referring to your tips frequently!! THANK YOU ❤️
I am so thankful I have found you on Instagram. I am about to start the second semester of my first year teaching theatre. I think your channel was a breath of fresh air. I have felt lately that I am not the best for my students in resources and materials. I have all of these fun ideas, but honestly, finding a good theatre curriculum to teach is hard in Texas.Being a new year I have so many new ideas and things I want to improve on. Thank you for making videos like these. You never know what will happen in the first year until you are in that room with the door shut by yourself with those students. Thank you, Brittany for making these videos and being a light! I am so thankful for you and your heart for others and your students!! ❤❤
Thank you for making this! I'm starting student teaching in the Fall, and I'm very nervous about my first year teaching in the future. Thank you for being YOU! 💓
I love how she truly cares about her students and about their learning! Some teachers Don’t really care if the students remember it as long as they do well on the test and stuff, so it’s very nice to see a teacher like you that puts in 120% effort into your work!❤️
Thank you for sharing! I graduated in May with my English ed degree and it’s been SO hard to be one of the only ones in my program (many of whom I considered sisters) without a full time teaching job. I’ve been getting good experience subbing and tutoring. You’re such a light! 💛💛💛
Thank you for this!!! I just finished my first semester of college and I am planning on being an English teacher as well :) watching how passionate you are makes me feel so inspired and excited!!❤️
I am doing an alternative certification program right now and it is opening so many opportunities in high school since I graduated with a BA in Math. I’ve always wanted to be a teacher and have done several volunteering opportunities. I am so scared to get into the field, I feel way to young to teach high schoolers, but I thank you for your advice and encouragement!! This video was so needed ❤️
I started a new RU-vid Channel, and even though I've teaching for many years, I forgot most of this stuff. It's become commonplace for me, so thanks for reminding me. I'll be watching.
Brittany, I just shared this video with a group of my future teacher friends. This was super encouraging and made me super excited to get my career started. We each have about 1 yr and a half to go till we’re teachers. Thanks again for the positivity and authenticity that you share in each video!
YES GIRL! ❤️ I’m a first year ELA teacher in 4th grade and this is ALL SO TRUE. My goal this semester is to be more consistent with behavior management, get organized, and create more engaging lessons! I got in a rut last semester and your channel has helped me stay positive! I appreciate you!!!!!
I love your channel so much!! ♥️ could you make a video about student teaching and your experience plus tips? I'll be student teaching early childhood a year from now and I'm extremely scared and nervous and just stressing out even now.
Brittany- I want to help other teachers! Me- I am 12 and I still watch your videos just because you are so positive and you bring joy to my day. Love you!😙 Be you and just keep what you are doing❤🐣
I teach 11th grade English. Having a routine, expectations, and rules is so important. My students do bell work every day and I come around and stamp their bell work log. They know if their work isn’t done, they don’t get a stamp and they lose points. I have been doing that since the first week of school and I don’t get complaints.
I would love to have a teacher like you!! you are so passionate about your job!! you inspire me, as a 16 year old, to be a passionate teacher when I grow up!! 💛
I love you and your channel so much! You are such an inspiration! I’m currently in a Master of School Library Science program to become a teacher librarian certified for k-12th grade. Currently I work as a learning support assistant and am gaining so much valuable experience already in all the classrooms and grades I work with. Watching your videos provides a lot of insight from an educators perspective as well your positivity! I enjoy elementary age but I noticed as well that I work very well with older grades perhaps even middle school. My hope is to become a school librarian for the future and or also become certified as an English teacher as well for middle school since I love reading and teaching students literary elements and writing.
I came across your channel yesterday as I’m starting my student teaching at the end of this month and I have not stopped watching your videos. Thank you SO much! You are such an inspiration.
This pumped me up so hard to jump into the full-time segment of my student teaching in a little over a week!! I had a lot of worries about planning and organizing lessons and doing everything by myself for the first time, but listening to you share all of this gave me confidence that it will get done and that I will succeed!! Love you Brit!! 💕
I was just hired as a middle school math teacher and I'm both excited and terrified! I got certified though an alternative method, so my degree was just in math, I never did any student teaching. This will be my first time ever with a classroom of my own and videos like this make me feel more confident :)
Ugh, I so needed this! I can’t wait to see your video about student teaching. So far, my student teaching experience at the middle school has not been amazing... the thing that’s really pushing me through is the fact that I get to teach high schoolers after I finish the middle school!
I have so much respect for you, Brittany. I'm so glad you made a youtube channel so that we can all follow along in your journey :) Although I am not a teacher, I'm considering working as a school psychologist in the future, so I think it is really valuable to hear teachers' tips and skills. I think this channel will really make a difference in the future of education because you're inspiring a lot of young people who will become teachers in the next few years!
I LOVE SEEING THIS. Starting student teaching this spring and I’m so nervous. I love watching your videos and makes me less nervous and more excited 🥰♥️
Thank you so much! This was so needed for me right now! My student teaching field experience was unfortunately interrupted because of the COVID-19 pandemic so I was stressing over if I was ready to apply for a certified position or apply as a teacher aid to gain more experience that I am missing :)
I've never wanted to be a teacher until I started college. I went in thinking I was going to do athletic training for a university or MiLB team, but now I want to be a high school athletic trainer and health teacher! If you asked me a year ago, I would've never wanted to step into a classroom and teach. Never say never yalllllll.
I absolutely loved all of these tips! I just finished my credential program and should start teaching in August. I have been starting to feel a little nervous about starting on my own! But with these tips they have made me feel a little better and that everything will be okay. & I honestly can't wait to get to have fun in the classroom like you! Thank you!
I'm actually about to go teach in Korea and, while I'm beyond excited, I'm so scared!!! But this video was so calming and reassuring so thank you, from the bottom of my heart!!!!
I really really love this video! I am currently a education major, junior year student and I am so excited yet so scared for my first year of teaching. This video gave me so much advice. Thank you❤️❤️
So so appreciative of your videos! Going through student teaching is such an amazing experience but I always wonder if I’m doing what’s best for my students.
If you still happen to be watching the comments (or if anyone else wants to chime in), I have a question about one of your tips! I did find this video really helpful; I'm working as a English teaching assistant in Japan with no prior experience (I have an English writing/editing degree but never took any teaching-track courses), so any extra info I can find online is super helpful. My question is this: you say to be yourself in the classroom, which I totally agree is a more authentic experience, but I'm personally really reserved, shy, and calm. In this case, is there even a benefit to being myself in the classroom? I've tried to be more outgoing but it usually just comes off as awkward, I think, because I really don't know how to do it lmao. If anyone has advice or perhaps teaches successfully with a similar personality, I would love to hear from you! Thank you for the helpful video!!
Great tips! I have taught before, but I struggle the hardest with organizing (papers mostly). Although you spoke about this in this video, could you do a separate video on how you organize things in your classroom? I would love to learn more about how you do this! You’re the best, and I love watching your videos!
This is so cool, I’m in my 20s and I’m going to school to become and English and Arts teacher and I stumbled upon this video and I’m glad I did. I had a teacher like you who was bubbly and positive all the time. So cool 😎
How do you deal with behaviour management? Or students who are completely disengaged and dont even want to participate in the fun activities? I build a connection with them but when it comes down to work they still dont do it. Love your videos so much thank you!!
Since I was 7 I knew I wanted to be a teacher. last 3 years I spent working alongside amazing teachers in 7 schools and 5 countries. In August of 2018 I started my journey to be a qualified teacher and I can't tell you how much I have learned already! I am only 19 but like I said I have had a dream of being a teacher but more specifically opening a non-profit for the poor and disabled in Pakistan since I was 7 years old. I have gotten A LOT of hate for wanting so strongly to be a teacher esp from teachers but there are teachers like you that encourage me to pursue my dream.
I love your channel so much!! I’m currently student teaching in an autism support classroom and a 10th grade world history room. Yesterday my mentor teacher was out for the day and the sub made a comment about thinking I was a 14 year old. Safe to say I was a little offended considering I’m almost 23 years old. I’m short and tiny just like you and although I love my high schoolers and see our closeness in age as a positive thing, I’m so tired of being mistaken for one of my students by other staff!
