Sometimes I feel like @educatorandrea, a high school English teacher on TikTok, is using secret camera footage from my teaching as content inspo. I already felt that way watching her videos about the difference between teaching elementary and secondary. But I audibly gasped watching one of her most recent videos today.
In the TikTok, Andrea walks us through the familiar and painful awkwardness of justifying a common classroom decision to an administrator.
Giving in to a class’s plea to watch a movie during finals
When you’re nice and established on another planet in your mind, an admin walks in …
The startle is real.
With perfect posture, you suddenly launch into an ad-lib doctoral thesis on The Grinch
It’s the hand placement for me. I call these my nervous paws.
And cruelly, your students, for whom you have toiled and sacrificed so much, WILL NOT BE COOL ABOUT IT.
Honestly, admin walk-ins for any reason should come with a mandatory 30-minute warning the week before a holiday break.
Check out Andrea’s TikTok and follow her below!
