What r/Teachers is talking about this week

I’ve been teaching for a long long time and I’ve been teaching freshman for most of my career. Freshman are always a bit helpless, but I swear this current crap of freshman has got to be the least...

Going to make this short and sweet. Told a class to shut up because they were shouting over the announcements during a real shelter in place. Told kids to quiet 3x before it escalated to a “shut...

It's our midterm exam week. Today in my exam, a student reported another student teaching to my proctor. My proctor saw him constantly looking down between his legs but couldn't find a phone or...

I had a kid out sick this week, from my biggest class. I didn't release how much he derailed and distracted others. Holy cow. But for that week, that class learned so much more than they ever...

A couple of weeks ago I posted about a kid who stays up all night on his tablet. Here's the update. I tried to give ideas. I talked about bedtimes. I talked about the importance of school. I tried...

I’m a first-year teacher, so I was in high school only a few years ago. When I was in school, kids would get kind of embarrassed to be caught on their phones or off task. They didn’t necessarily...

What is going around the internet that young kids are moaning for no reason? It is driving me nuts. I have a second and two third grade classes that it never fails that at least one student moans....

My worst class was being a little extra today. And, it got to a point where one kid took another kids notebook, which led to that kid throwing something at him. I didn't yell, I just glared at...

It finally happened to me. Something happened on Friday that changed my perspective of my decision to be a teacher. I am teaching a mixed class of 7th and 8th graders Art & Exploratory Media. The...

For me, it’s the intense scrutiny of taking time off. The other day, our principal told the staff in a meeting that if we take a sick day for a doctor visit, to make sure we ONLY go to our...