It’s funny how most of us imagine a classroom to be the place where all the serious business happens.
In reality, it’s where hilarity is turned up to the max—from funny typos on the board, to photocopying skills running errands, to plain absurd incidents that do happen more often than we’d like to think.
But this time, we're gonna turn the cards around and let the teachers share their fair amount of awkwardly funny accidents that have happened at school. In the end, they are humans too.
And what can be more human than failing on duty, like accidentally using a glue stick as a Chapstick in front of a class of little giggling devils?
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Teacher Fail
Sorry Class, My Dog Ate Everyone's Homework
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The classroom is one heck of a tricky business, especially when you’re the one in charge. And even though being a teacher is generally regarded as a rewarding profession which has probably one of the biggest influences on our future generations, that doesn’t mean it’s not stressful.
In reality, incidents and accidents in a classroom are part of their daily bread, and it’s up to the teacher to manage the situation and not to let it escalate. Sometimes the incidents are indeed harmless and even mood-lifting, but other times, with 20 people in class, things spiral out of control.
A Science Teacher
My middle school science teacher uttered probably the only thing I've ever remembered from his class: "If you look at this pattern, it looks like the orgasm exploded." Um. I've never seen a human being turn that shade of red before or since.
Teacher Fail
The name of my band is called 'The Floppy Clocks'. Obviously named after the Dali painting. But I get it could be misconstrued?
I Thought It Would Be A Good Idea To Buy My Class Of Year 5's Some Heart Shaped Balloons - Apparently Not
That’s why every teacher has to have a few classroom management strategies at hand. Rob Plevin, a teaching expert who specializes in noisy class solutions and teaching techniques, suggests a couple of useful tips to get everything under control.
First, as a teacher, you shouldn’t ask "why?” “Asking a student why they have or haven’t done something is an extremely confrontational and threatening way of approaching and almost always results in more conflict,” he suggests.
Second, Rob urges teachers to create a diversion: for example, redirection of attention to a demonstration or something else happening nearby, a change in activity, or a story or joke. “Any off-topic question should do the job or, if you’re more adventurous, you could change your behavior and do something they aren’t expecting."
This Professor, Who Sent A Rude Email Because He Thought Everyone Skipped His Class. It Was An Online Class
He's a professor, which I assume he is at a university. How does he not know that it should all be online? There's usually faculty meetings and orientation that go over these details.
That Time I Made Fake Snow With My Students And It Looked Like Bags Of Coke'
Third, if a student is behaving ill, remind them of their past success. He suggests trying this by asking: “Remember how well you coped last time this happened?” or “Hey, I saw you behaving impeccably this morning. Come on, get back to your true self.”
Other strategies include offering support, staying silent, offering them space, and using your sense of humor. It’s incredible what a powerful tool humor can be in stressful situations and it can immediately lift the edge off the whole classroom.
How Is Your First Day Going?
1st Of Many Teacher Fails: We Were Going To Play Hangman But Then We Realized That Was Inappropriate... So We Came Up With A New, Original Game Which We Called “Beat The Balls.” Then We Chose The Word “Grassland” And Well This Is Where We Ended Up
Welp. I Killed The Class Pets Today
Depending on the age of the children, it can be used as a teachable moment
Throwback To That Awkward Moment During Student Teaching
Human anatomy is inappropriate in some places. But as far as I know, many kids have a private parts phase. Right after the " pee and poo is hilarious" phase. It is exploring, they are becoming aware of girls and boys not being built the same. And they have no shame about it but love the reactions of adults to it. Would work of famous artists be covered if they show private parts? (The answer is yes, in some places/schools). But hey, grow up. We were all born naked.
How's Your Day Going? If I Had A Dollar For Every Time I've Locked My Class Keys In My Room, I Could Quit My Job. No Worries, I'm Innovative And A Problem Solver. I Always Carry A Tool Kit In My Car...
High School Teacher Remote Teaching. Our Platform Generates Unique Classroom Codes For Each Course. For My Course, I Have To Screenshot And Send "Jizzin' To God" To All My Students
Teacher Fail
I bet chapstick glues better then today's glue stick. I remember the days when duct tape actually stuck to things.
It's May, And We're All Here. What More Can You Ask For?!
Bad Photocopying On My Behalf. The Year 6’s Found It Hilarious
Teacher Fail
When You Get Into The Prep-Room And Feel A Storng Smell Of Lamb And Wonder Where It Comes From And Then You Find This Amazing Bloodpool Behind The Cart Where You Placed The Dissection Organs To Let Them Thaw Well, It's Alright! We Learn By Doing Mistakes. We Definitely Need To Buy New Intact Boxes To Our Lab Though
My First Ever Class As A Teacher Is About To Begin, All Notes On The Laptop
Heh, mine did it 30 min before a projection on an event, it finished 2 minutes before it was time to go.
'from My Son's Preschool Wall ... They Are J's ... Right?'
I'm Proud Of - Accidental Swear Word In The Findaword - Teacher Of The Year!
It Was My Substitute Teacher’s First Day On The Job, And This Is What We Walk In Class To. Dry Erase Markers On A Promethean Board Isn’t It Yall
It is a brand of 'Smart Board' You can write on it with special pens and then screen shot what you have written.
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At least the sub taught the class. Lol All of my substitutes just read the names on the roster wrong and got on their phone until the bell rang. Lol
I had an English sub once who used her fingers to wipe off the white board pens from the white board which created a giant smudge. My actual English teacher loved to keep everything neat and tidy so our whole class was cringing and and whispering to each other that she wouldn't like it. We then had to point out the whiteboard cleaning spray that was clearly labelled and the wipe to clean it off. We spent 15 mins explaining to our sub that we had to keep the class room really tidy. That was a lesson that I will never forget. It seemed to last about 3 hrs instead of 1
I'm sorry but sub teacher should've been instructed or at least left with a clear sticky note to not use sharpies - it's not her/his fault
No... a promethian bourd is basically a computer screen. You are not suppose to write on it at all.
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Honestly, what was wrong about chalkboards? Except for the dreaded Chalk Finger teachers would get. Smelly dry-erase markers, unenvironmental disposal of same, chemicals for spray cleaner, see-through glass boards that show every flaw on the wall if you were lucky enough to think of how dark you wall is before the contractor mounted it, c**p technology...
my IT is so bad that sometimes i forget about the delete button and use typex on the screen.
Ordinary rubber pencil erasers might take that off. I had something similar one time. OR there is whiteboard cleaner spray if you have time to shop. Bonus tip: if you accidentally write on a whiteboard with a regular marker, write over it with whiteboard markers. WB markers simply have an extra chemical that let's them be erased easily. When you write over permanent marker with wb marker ink, it erases off the whiteboard easily.
Can we talk about the 3rd-grade level cursive writing? I can just see students at the back of the class squinting to make it out. It's hard to do cursive on a vertical surface so just print for Pete's sake.
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I'm 40. Old enough to teach but too old to be a student in this class. It looks like a dry erase board. That wasn't all that long ago. You know, in the 90 s..before we were all stupified by the internet.
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Well That Didn't Go As Smoothly As Planned . My Bean Bag Refill Finally Came In After Being Back Ordered For Months And Refilling It Seemed So Simple Until This Happened
Refilling bean bags is *much* harder than it appears, and those static-y SOBs are impossible to clear up too. Good luck with that.
Oops, Bad Spelling
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My worst ever experience when I was a teacher was standing in front of a class of 15 (post 16 year old) engineering students, all lads, when the elastic on my skirt went and it fell down. Luckily I was also wearing leggings. I just said "well it's not the 1st time my skirt has been around my ankles" kicked it to the side and carried on the lecture.
Omg that's a badass teacher right there... Also that joke 😂😂
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This was pretty fun, but then I realized that these teachers have to go back to teaching physically in the midst of a pandemic, and that too in the worst affected country.
First (and only) day sub teaching 2nd grade. Wiggly "bad boy" finished his work because I told him he could do some artwork, so he makes a paper airplane, launches it just as the principle comes in, it hits her right between the eyes, and I say "Oh, S***t."
redeeming note: it was an awesome paper plane, decorated superbly, I wish I still knew that kid.
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Yeah, been there, done that...sat in on the grievance meetings... -Dr M, retired educator
One of my teachers made the mistake of allowing us to start a conversation about prom after we finished a discussion about a book about a school shooting called 19 Minutes. This kid in class, out of nowhere, says “19 minutes prom”
We all make mistakes. Just gotta learn from them. However, the ones made in front of kids are awful. They have a hard time letting it go. Accidental flops= a weeks of being reminded of it
My worst ever experience when I was a teacher was standing in front of a class of 15 (post 16 year old) engineering students, all lads, when the elastic on my skirt went and it fell down. Luckily I was also wearing leggings. I just said "well it's not the 1st time my skirt has been around my ankles" kicked it to the side and carried on the lecture.
Omg that's a badass teacher right there... Also that joke 😂😂
Load More Replies... This was pretty fun, but then I realized that these teachers have to go back to teaching physically in the midst of a pandemic, and that too in the worst affected country.
First (and only) day sub teaching 2nd grade. Wiggly "bad boy" finished his work because I told him he could do some artwork, so he makes a paper airplane, launches it just as the principle comes in, it hits her right between the eyes, and I say "Oh, S***t."
redeeming note: it was an awesome paper plane, decorated superbly, I wish I still knew that kid.
Load More Replies... Yeah, been there, done that...sat in on the grievance meetings... -Dr M, retired educator
One of my teachers made the mistake of allowing us to start a conversation about prom after we finished a discussion about a book about a school shooting called 19 Minutes. This kid in class, out of nowhere, says “19 minutes prom”
We all make mistakes. Just gotta learn from them. However, the ones made in front of kids are awful. They have a hard time letting it go. Accidental flops= a weeks of being reminded of it
