So what goes on on a typical day as a primary school teacher you may ask? Well, thanks to me we may have the answers!
I am a primary school teacher from Galway, Ireland. By day, I have the fun task of educating the next generation of kids... by night... I'm an artist! Having a particular interest in animation and cartooning, I decided to combine the two things I'm most passionate about - teaching and drawing - and these are the results!
I draw on moments from the school nativity play, lunchtime struggles and general life working as a teacher.
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Jesus, this is true! My friend is a teacher and she met her student in the middle of nowhere during hitch-hiking in Greece!
My mother has been teaching 6th grade for 23 years. She can't escape former students everywhere she goes.
Load More Replies...I met my class teacher on the end of Llandudno pier. The poor girl was on her honeymoon!!
Friend had just been proposed to at the Iguaza Falls on the border of Brazil and Argentina..... and then she heard....'Hi Miss B...!!!! ' Child from her previous class and whole family! She teaches in Scotland!
I used to be a teacher. After a particularly long and fraught summer term, I was happily standing in the security queue at Heathrow waiting to go to Egypt, when who should tap me on the shoulder but my head teacher. Possibly a less welcome sight than the most troublesome child!
I seriously remember this feeling, running into a teacher somewhere other than school. It was surreal.
At the age of fifteen, I ran into my English teacher in the lingerie dept of a dept store. I had a legitimate reason for being there( delivering stock in my Saturday job) but it was weird to see her rummaging in the sexy underwear.
Load More Replies...haha even i used to think the same thing when i was a kid. Its funny :p
For some reason my grandsons first school holidays thought his school building was going somewhere on holidays while he stayed home, 😂
When out with my family when I was in grade school we had met the teacher at a store. I didn't recognize her at all. She didn't have her teacher hair do or glasses or her teacher dress on. No matter what anyone said to me I kept saying no and that my teacher is in school. I was a slow one right up to the fourth grade.
Now he better give them good grades ... otherwise his house is gonna get egg'd
I was the quietest, politest kid in class. One day wiped out on some ice in the middle of some random dudes driveway. I had some choice words for the guy who didn't salt his sidewalk (he was standing at his car back to me as I when on my tirade). He turned around and it was my history teacher. Most awkward moment ever. Class was interesting the rest of the year...
We ran into one of my kids teachers during Trick or Treating. LOL!
funny since one of my boys name is Liam and he answer the same thing when we asked him
Hopefully he got a teacher that is as creative as this one!
Load More Replies...I can literally feel a teacher dying every time a nothing is said on this question 😂
If asked what did you learn today in school, my son says "How to eat a chocolate"
I remember it as 'what did I learn?' And I never knew what I learned just because not everything was a Eureka moment. Thus I learned 'nothing' every day.
I get similar answer from my darling daughter, what did she do in school...just some stuff...🤦🏽
Yes! The same answer is given by my three kids every day at pick-up time. Either that or, "I can't remember".
Most don't get a summer break.. they have summer jobs to make ends meet and then go back to the grind...
Hi, Scott! Just curious, are you from the US? Your experience doesn't match what I currently know of teachers and I wanted to expand my understanding.
Load More Replies...Are you guys serious? Being a teacher is hard work and a very important job, don't make out they 'have it easy'
That's why I say we teachers don't have holidays, we have therapy-brakes, so we can pull ourselves together again to start a new school year ;)
:D hahahahaha!!!! I guess you really need them. I can't believe most of the stuff my teacher friends tell me. Kids are horrible.
Load More Replies...Exactly, Lizzy, for a teacher that's September vs June becasue many of us (I won't say all teachers because that depends a lot on the person) we don't even have weekends. We work every single day to try to make our lesson better and to give our students the best of us to let them make the best of themselves. So, no, sorry, I don't have time to recover from Friday to Monday. I wish I could! :)
Load More Replies...Have you ever been teaching primary or secondary school? Please, try. Then I'll be glad to read your opinion about teachers :)
Load More Replies...I know this too well... our teacher expected us also just to KNOW which page we were on...
And I guess you walked to school uphill both ways in the snow too huh?
Load More Replies...After I announced the page, I would write the page number on the board. I still had students ask me. I finally put a sign above the chalkboard which read, "I have already answered that question. Please ask someone who listened." Then, if asked what page, I would just point to the sign.
I remember giving a lesson intro, then setting the students off on their practical task, there would often be one who said 'what do I do, I wasn't listening.....'.
HAHAHA, story of my life. "*carefully reads out instruction multiple times* Didi, kya karne ka ( What to do?)
I still remember when one of my junior high school teachers swore in class ... best teacher ever! lol
Why does Josh look so much like a younger Homer Simpson? 200_s-5988...d69d96.gif
Oh I love it when books have "stupid" in them. Thank you author for tripping us up.
Your first two years working in an elementary school will be tough, but you'll build an immune system hard as a rock.
I'm sure some people do, but I actually had to leave my job for this reason. I was sick in a chain, one virus after the other for about a year. Ended up being so run down it made me depressed! My immune system just couldn't get used to it. I haven't had a virus since I left teaching
Load More Replies...and then they get on the bus and try to get the bus driver who drives them crazy because she did it all when she was in school and is better at being a tease than they are. . . .not that i would do that
What's your name? Luna. What's the color of the sky? Blue. What's the opposite of down? Up. Luna blew up!
My parents are teachers, they would bring home about 20 every june, and then sell them (usually to kids parents) at the end of may the next year...
I am a university professor... I relate too much to this.... I shouldn't.... but still I identify.
That's why I buy Dunkin donut gift cards, they want the stuff that goes in the mugs
Nope! The worst is when they ' make you a card' ( fold a piece of paper in half) and write ' your the best teecher' .... other incorrect spellings of teacher are available! And they don't see the irony!
This teared me up! I have got truckloads of paper, tucked here and there.
from the urban dictionary: Frube n. (abbrev. fruit + tube) obscure yogurt snack in an "easy-open" flexible plastic tube. sent under because it foolishly attempted to promote healthy eating amongst young children, and 50% of the time was unopenable by hand. :D
Parents - don't pack things in your kid's lunch that they can't open themselves. Pack something else.
What's your second name Rebekah mines heather freshwater
Load More Replies...A German answer was: The Coca Cola trucks..........
Load More Replies...I know! Most kids just like the presents they dont care what any celebration is for;)
Had worse, 1st time i had a tooth getting loose i was scared and jumped in the middle of the class screaming and crying about it...
Sees this in July: (*Screams internally*), Sees this in August: (*Internal screaming becomes internally deafening*)
My birthday is in August and I always hated when this happened at stores
Load More Replies...I loathe this ever since I was a child! I understand if you are from the south because some schools start in August. But I had worked in Walgreens for 2 years and NO ONE appreciated seeing seasonal products displayed so early.
Lucky Strike had advertisements in Germany saying: Fröhliche Weihnachten (Erster) Merry Christams, (first one), they were shown in June....
Load More Replies...I saw a back to school commercial on June 27, the day before school even ended!
I always knew as soon as Independence Day (July 4th) came around, the fun was over!
I feel like whatever job you have set in the school even a student, you always find that sign ‘50% of Back To School Sale’ at least somewhere in your break and you always break down.
What gross thing made the shoelace wet? Not rain, it's a dry day.
Load More Replies...This is so true for 2017. Haters downvoted you because your comment hit too close to the spot for them. Bad parenting.
Load More Replies...Then I have to remember to wear the watch XD some of us are hopeless and that's okay.
Load More Replies...Also works with "Mommy, I can't find [insert whatever is just in front of him/her/them]"
And the following question from the kid: "How did you know where it was?" <-- My 5 year old, everytime I find his "lost" item(s) :D
Load More Replies...Hey' don't feel bad kid. I've lost items that are still in my hand. "Oh god! I can't feel my phone in my pocket! WHERE'S MY PHONE!? WHERE'S MY--" (*looks at hand*) "...For someone who's studying Computer Science, I'm a pretty dumb person..."
I've done this while on the phone to my husband. "I can't find my phone, I had it here 2 minutes ago!", "Honey, how are you calling me?" Oh.
Load More Replies...Garfield says something similar: "I'll rise, but I refuse to shine."
But now, I want to know how the story between Sophie and Adam ended up :)
My tip for anyone going into education is to look after your pens. They need to teach that at teacher college. 10% of your day is pen management. Mostly trying to find one.
go ask the Administrative Assistant...these things always fall into the realm of what AAs learn on the job.
But why not though? If the curriculum doesn't cover basic IT. Then take it as an elective. Technology is not scary.
Yes I agree! It must included into all teaching degrees ! AND it should MAKE us indispensable 😂
No, thats my job. I am an electronics technician.
Load More Replies...If I’m arguing with my siblings like that, it’ll go on until I say THEIR argument, and in the heat of the moment, they say mine. And I always end it in either: “thank you for agreeing with me” or “I guess I was right”
Normally kids wait for a response to the teacher to see who is the winner of the outcome xD
All of my kid students ALWAYS point out that my hair is blue, every day :).
The same here. Plus "I think purple is your favourite colour. Do you want to know how I know? Cause your hair's purple!"
Load More Replies...I had to be a sub for a year o my god . I often change haircolour/haircut. The kids would come just to say to me"i liked it better last week"
This reminds me of that one time my math teacher said her birthday was one day after mine(2/24) and this girl asked how old she is and she said "23" and the girl shouted, "THAT MEANS NEXT YEAR YOU'LL BE TURNING 24 ON THE 24th!!!!" and my teacher said "yes, I'm aware"...we were in 8th grade
Add parent teacher conferences, class parties, and field trips, and you will know why teachers age quickly!
Omg my sister has some (she's a gymnast) even though JoJo Siwa annoys the f***k out of both of us.
My sister is obsessed with Jo Jo and her bows and shae a gymnast too
Load More Replies...Bro legit, she is the only person who can get away with being childish at her age. Anyone else will be teased and called childish
Load More Replies...It's just missing the fidget spinners and slime, then it will be a complete representation of the trends. ;)
When i was in kindergarden, there was this substitute teacher who we called 'the tooth fairy' (i literally cant remember her real name) bevause whenever she came, one of the children would lose a tooth and no one knew why :)
Did the smart a*s kids have "accidents" around stairs?
Load More Replies...Those are great. Looking simple (but hard to draw, I know that) and the eyes are very expressive. Keep it up!
Me (teacher): This is a pen. This is a pen. THIS! is a pen. Pen. Pen. P. E. N. Pen. Puh, eh, nuh! This is a pen. What is it? Student: Uh. Red!
Nice job! I, too, teach primary. This is very honest and real. Thank you for sharing and I look forward to your first book.
You should really make these into gifts...tea towels, mugs, pictures - they'd sell :-)
I now play darts against my old maths teacher from 15 years ago,I'm so glad he retired his maths is terrible
Those are great. Looking simple (but hard to draw, I know that) and the eyes are very expressive. Keep it up!
Me (teacher): This is a pen. This is a pen. THIS! is a pen. Pen. Pen. P. E. N. Pen. Puh, eh, nuh! This is a pen. What is it? Student: Uh. Red!
Nice job! I, too, teach primary. This is very honest and real. Thank you for sharing and I look forward to your first book.
You should really make these into gifts...tea towels, mugs, pictures - they'd sell :-)
I now play darts against my old maths teacher from 15 years ago,I'm so glad he retired his maths is terrible
