Just For Fun: The Little Things That Drive You Mad

Lynn How

Lynn is the Editor at Teacher Toolkit. With 20 many years of key teaching and SLT experience, she has been an Assistant Head, Guide Mentor for ITT and SENCO. She loves to create and also has her own SEMH and team mental well being weblog: www.positiveyoungmind.com. Lynn…
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What are the tiny things in college that make you twitch?

I’ve compiled a record of 25 little niggles that have bothered me throughout my operate in universities. Not ample to be a main problem, but quite possibly plenty of on some situations, to be the very last straw!

25 ‘niggles’ all teachers comprehend

1. Pupils who attempt to educate you how to use your individual ICT gear.
2. The dried-out whiteboard pen.
3. The classroom whistler you can not location.
4. The question, ‘Can I go to the bathroom?’ adopted by ‘Will you provide the essential again?’
5. The assembly that could have been an email.
6. A cancelled lesson observation you about-organized for (this is in fact a large detail).
7. Photocopier queues 5 minutes right before the lesson starts off
8. The word pedagogy said wrongly (ped-ee-gog-ee). Ditto the word genre (gen-ree).
9. An erroneous apostrophe (prepared by a instructor).
10. Particular vs Pacific.
11. Full moons and windy times – just take include!
12. Other people’s Pinterest lecture rooms. Do they even have a life?
13. There is only decaf espresso still left in the staffroom.
14. Glue adhere wastage, shortages and these lacking a lid (leading suggestion: use a sharp knife to minimize off the dried out little bit).
15. Inexpensive glue sticks in which the sheets tumble out after 3 months.
16. Pupils who randomly overlook out internet pages in their books.
17. Pupils’ use of a knife and fork.
18. Your vehicle getting blocked in when you want to go household!
19. Pencils that are only 3cm extended.
20. When you test to shake the printer cartridge back to lifestyle, then the ink goes all over you!
21. Putting a swimming hat on a child, multiplied by 30.
22. The pupil who has to touch the smartboard each time they walk past it.
23. That guardian who ruins your day.
24. Owning to guide a last-minute assembly.
25. The faculty business supervisor who doesn’t trust any person with their stationery.

It didn’t take prolonged to occur up with this checklist of 25 very little issues and I could conveniently obtain 25 far more! What would you include?

Whilst most staff encounter the very same get the job done difficulties, not anyone is fixed to one room all working day with 30 pupils with a restricted funds …

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