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  • This really does sum up teaching perfectly.

  • Hi Miss.

  • Okay. You're creative. I'm creative. You like Doctor Who and Father Ted. So do I. I can't say I'm into chickens but I DO like hedgehogs. We're roughly the same age, and if I post any more messages asking you out on a date, I'm officially going to be 'creepy', so this will have to be the last one. I'm thinking of a moonlit bus ride to a romantic Burger King I know. A chocolate milkshake with 2 straws. I'll even pay! That's the kind of guy you're dealing with.I'm even on Youtube! Carpe' Diem!

  • I wouldn't mind you teaching me :) I'm guessing you're a design teacher?

  • Parents have no clue-this is the truth.Parents always protect,and kids born in the 1980s are the most protected,sheltered,pampered,s­poilt,who knows nothing selfish unempathetic people in this age of now known world.

  • Ist das die Bayrische Verfassung bei 2:38?

  • Your name is Astrid? My mom's name is Astrid, and she is also a German teacher! Hahaha :D

  • Why does it say paper jam when there is no paper jam?!

  • @panzerveps typically it is caused by an optical sensor being clogged with tiny bits of paper.

  • @Schutzenegl1 Most likely, yes. You should see Office Space. It's a catchphrase from that movie.

  • could it be that you´re from england or so???

  • Very curious about how many pupils when there are 140 teachers. :-)

  • @EnnaVic about 1300

  • you´ve got good english,but sometimes you´ve got some mistakes listen to the beginning and try to find one of them ; )

  • @egopellote Ironic, isn't it?

  • I work in an office, and I concur about copier jams.

    Somedays I feel more like an engineer......

  • 140 teachers ?!? How many pupils do you have ?

  • Why do you want to speak with british ascent? You will sound like Noel Gallagher and I Can´t understand a work he says.

  • @picolodaemao3 British English is what we learn in school in Germany.

  • @sillysparrowness Than could be easy for me to live in germany where everybody speak like Harry Potter.

  • @picolodaemao3 Can you understand Noel gallagher speaking?

  • @picolodaemao3 Cause I can´t

  • The amount of workload and working conditions are a problem in every school I think. I was suprised when I got to college about how clean everything was. In my two previous schools every toilet was disgusting. In primary school there were always spiders in the bathroom, so everyone was afraid to look up in case a spider would fall down on you. I'm not even kidding.

    I think schools should hire more assistents / non-teaching staff.

  • Two years ago I was invited to tell about my study in my old highschool. I was pretty much the ideal pupil back then (especially when I compared it to my fellow pupils), so I guess I was biased by thinking that the pupils would actually listen. They didn't. Instead they couldn't stop asking me rude questions. It was a disappointment, especially because I love learning people stuff.

  • That was spot on, especially about using the bathroom to find some peace and quiet! I'm also an English teacher, to Korean kids, and stressful is definitely the word I would choose to describe it.

  • Hi Astrid!

    A few of my friends are teachers...and (if I may remember correctly) may it be possible, that the points you mentioned are only the tip of the iceberg? We sat together on summer evenings, drank a lot of red wine (A lot of red wine always helps. Always.) and chatted about things they hate at especially the german school system.

    Your video was rather diplomatic, wasn't it?

  • @MrDonkrypton The points I mentioned are what annoys me most in the daily struggle. I obviously didn't mention any of the obstacles put in our way by the ministery of education and, rarely, my school. Like every teacher, I would have a thing or two to say about that, but to be completely honest, this is the stuff I need to block out, otherwise the anger and the frustration will get the best of me. :/

  • To empty your mind over lunch (when you don't need to work) consider the Papertoy Monsters kit book-thing ISBN 978-0761158820. Btw, I watched your Tardis video yesterday after it emerged on Facebook I'm watching all your videos in order. Loving them! I'm guessing that you're already getting the kinds of comments that Charlie described in Time To Reply.

  • i want you as my teacher!!

  • As a teacher, I can relate to everything you've said!

  • I'm wondering if posting on you tube is a good idea if you're a teacher. That's got to be asking for trouble. Oh and hiding in the toilet is a part of any job. I normally sleep or work out how much I've been paid whilst I'm there.

  • I feel guilty for all those times I've needed to see a teacher during breaks.

  • Hello? Yes. I have decided to marry you. Is Thursday good for you? Sorry that doesn't leave much time for traditional getting to know you stuff, but I'm massively busy until after 'deep learning olympics day' on Wednesday. I make pretty things for a school and can wrangle the photocopiers and would therefore make an excellent husband. Can you be at the church, say about 12ish? Until then byebyex

  • Lovely to see that teaching in Germany inspires many of the same grumps (and niceness) as it does in England.

  • As teacher that gave up - well, on teaching pupils; now part of my job is training adults in using software, and sometimes i don't see much of a difference - i *do* admire the fact that you're still that enthusiastic about it. :)

    And... yes... you are cool, *because* you are a teacher.

    No. There is *nothing* wrong with cuddling a chicken. ;)

  • See, if ANY of my high school teachers built TARDISes and knitted what looks like the season 15 doctor who scarf I would have probably enjoyed it waaaaay more. Never the less, while I hated my high school education, I respect what it gave me and I can't call it out for being deliberately horrible towards me. (Well I try my best.)

  • OH MY GOD A CHICKEN!

  • .....but ultimately lost the fight.

  • Could only think of you yesterday as I nervously slid my original score into our college photocopier... I fought valiantly,

  • A broken copier can only be broken. It can never be fixed.

  • My school recently adopted a new policy, "no household appliances in your office", after a teacher in another school burnt the toast in her toaster TWICE in one day, both times causing the fire alarms to go off. I've had a microwave, bar fridge and expresso machine in my office for years, and there is no way I was going to go without them, so I hid them with boxes etc around the office. I feel like James Bond when I go to make a coffee and pull the expresso machine out of the filing cabinet =.=

  • @gibgezr lol Your life is so exciting! XD

  • Ha! Mitte Februar fängt mein erstes Praktikum (Physik) an. Die Computer, das Lehrerzimmer, die Sammlung für die Physik und alles ... da kommst du aus der einigermaßen ausgestatten Uni und denkst du bist im Mittelalter angekommen. Kannst keine Youtube-Videos zeigen, keine Präsentationen ... bin zwar immernoch gespannt, ärgere mich aber auch. Schöne Videos. Sowas sollte mal einer für Physik machen ... hmmm

  • Oh my GOD those stupid blinking copier lights!!!

    But don't you feel AWESOME when you pull paper out of five different crevasses and manage to slide stuff back into place and emerge, battered and bloody - er...ink-stained - from having FIXED IT?

  • @omsoqvx Oh yes! And even better: casually help out a collegue who can't fix it secretly feeling all full of yourself! XD

  • @sillysparrowness Yes! The casual, "Let me help you with that" (adding silently) because I am the MASTER. And it's SUCH a good (and much-needed) ego-boost for the rest of the day! (Oh, coping...) LOL I'm not even teaching right now, but you brought back SUCH strong memories. :p

    I love how I found your videos because you built a TARDIS, then ended up here. Very nice range of awesome video content. ;)

  • Tja als ich mal Nacharbeit machen musste, war der Kopierer wieder kaputt (im Sekretariat) xD bzw. Tinte alle, ich weiß nicht mehr genau, was das Problem war.

  • lol the PTA is going to have a field day with this^^

  • Haha - broken copiers. I've worked at three different institutions now, and not a one has had a working copier. WHY IS THAT?!?!

  • oh gott gegen deine schule wirkt meine ja top modern :D

  • ...and broken copy machines... :-D

    I am very lucky indeed to dwell in a room with only three more colleagues, two computers a fridge and a microwave.

    ...GOD! I will never be able to work in any other school than mine.

  • 1:27, the chicken; Absolute, perhaps unintentional genius!

  • @YoungJim409 Ah, I'm glad someone noticed. Not unintentional at all! I cast my chickens very carefully! :)

  • @sillysparrowness I can imagine that interview: The stern interviewer on one side of the desk, Mr. Cluck there on the other, and a large bottle of hot sauce sitting there entirely by coincidence ;-)

  • @sillysparrowness ooooh I noticed, I noticed too! :D

    in the teaser already ;)

  • why do you call them pupils where i live they call people who attend school students

  • I love the mini rant in the tags!

  • I feel exactly the same! Are we twins?

  • And I tought my school was low budget... I won't complain about how slow our computers are at least we have some.

  • How to deal with stress: hide in the bathroom. Worked at the age of 6, still works at the age of 16 :)

  • @TheSim1derful

    I really love blackboards-I always go to the ones in the old buildings at my school when I have a particularly difficult math proof...

  • My University just built a brand-new Engineering and Computer Science building about three years ago and only put blackboards in every classroom (no white boards or Smart boards). For some reason this appeals to me. I think it's because I only had blackboards in grade school. Takes me back.

  • A German English teacher who socializes with chickens and knits Doctor Who Scarves? Brilliant!

  • You said in the comments of another video that your students aren't likely to bump into your youtube channel. But what about your colleagues? I have in mind the obvious and serious risk of those forgotten toilettes to become crowded after the publication of that video....

  • School is a terrible way to have to waste your childhood. I reckon I would have had a crush on you though, Frau Lehrerin.

  • That's so crazy. My school is like idinafan1's and I also happen to be 17. So primitive. :p Of course I'm exaggerating. "You know how sometimes you lose the feeling for how pathetic exactly something is or isn't because it's simply part of your reality." YES. You're still in touch though, I mean, you recognize there might be something wrong with that. ;p Love your videos. C: Hank from the vlogbrothers sent me.

    Essle

  • Yup

  • broken copiers ... epidemic

  • This made me laugh so much... My school pretty new. We have atleast 40 computers in very corridor and there is a corridor or two for every subject ( it's a very big school). Also I haven’t seen a blackboard in a classroom since I was about 6 years old (I’m 17 now), my school has interactive projectors that act similarly to computer screens but allow you to write on them too and all the data is assessable via the computer on the teachers desk. Hehe, I’m so lucky. :)

  • @idinafan1 Yes you are. I kind of hate you. ;)

  • I can begin to comprehend what you mean. I have a friend who taught math and science on a reserve in northern Saskatchewan, and prepared a lesson plan for two days in advance, for a class of 20, just to have 1 to 3 people show up for class. He left because of it.

  • Teachers are the most important people ever. Really.

    But the problems is,too many stupid people try and become teachers(they eventually do get recognized as teachers by many but to me remain stupid people) :P

  • That better be a Tom Baker scarf.

  • @missmollygrue It is. You better be able to tell me which one? :P

  • @sillysparrowness Did he have more than one? I know that the incredibly-hard-to-find one was knitted by Madame Nostradamus.

  • @jeanluc6430 3 at least. Different seasons, different scarves.

  • 1:40 acutally, as a pupil, I say "school would be so nice if it weren't for all the pupils" also. Too many stupid people.

  • i love that leather jacket. It really suits you

  • Most schools, that I know of, do not have sinks. I remember getting water for the sponge in the drinking fountain. Not necessary hygienic now that I think about it...

  • @vNamuie: german schools are different that way. They don't spend any money on technical devices, eg. whiteboards, computers and it's better this way. The 20 year old overhead-projectors we had presented a struggle for most teachers already. :)

  • “One of the hardest things for students to learn is that a teacher is human; one of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them."

    --- Alan Bennett (The History Boys: A Play)

  • Eek... I am glad I went to school in Australia. In my high school, every kid had a personal school laptop, we have electronic boards as well as white boards... work was emailed to kids not copied and handed out... and my school was just a rural public school.

  • @oritreesan Nice.

  • @Commodore93 Yes. Yes! How would you... you need water to clean the blackboard!

  • @sillysparrowness We used to have blackboards, but we didn't need water to clean it. We just wipe off the chalk with one of the erasers(well, it was technically a chalkboard but as far as I know, they're the same thing.) My school district only has dry erase boards now, though.

  • @sillysparrowness We have whiteboards (dry erase) and the math buildings have Smart Boards.

  • @sillysparrowness My school is almost completely smart boards now. Rarely do we have any blackboards.

  • "broken copiers" I know the feeling...

  • I wish you were my teacher...

  • Oh dear, I have great sympathy for your school's condition. ):

  • I totally get why you put "broken copiers" 4 times! You can't do ANYTHING without it! Loved this video, glad I'm not the only one who felt overwhelmed while teaching (and I wasn't even teaching in a "real" school) Very honest and brave.

  • I would have imagined that the pupils would pose the biggest problem.

    They are the reason I would not enjoy teaching:

    I used my old school as a shortcut (it was raining) and all of a sudden I was knee-deep in 5th graders.

    As I walked by one of the little squirts told the young female teacher (she must've been starting out) to "open the fucking door, bitch."

    And she blushed, tugged in her head and DID IT.

    She didn't say anything - she just complied!

    That day I decided NOT to become a teacher.

  • @HaploidCell No. Noooo. I love my pupils!

  • The job of the teacher is not an easy one, I see.

    I study at university ATM and I have some friends who want to become teachers because of the "easy lifestyle".

    I am going to forward this to them :D

  • @Commodore93 You have to clean the chalk of the board after the lessons. That is best done with a WET sponge. If there is no sink it is kind of hard to get the sponge wet.

    In theory, you could let the entire class spit on the sponge - but that is just nasty.

  • Students don't hate the teachers, students hate the homework. Personally, I would love school if I didn't have to do homework.

  • Oh goodness, how happy I am that I found this channel. I've learnt so much by watching so few videos. I wish you could be my teacher!

  • That was great, I want to see another one :D

    I know... I'm greedy...

  • Go School Survival!

  • This is probably the only teacher that sounds cool.

  • You would love my school, we have 5 computer centers, people who take care of copies, a large teachers lounge and teachers have 3 bathrooms...I really liked your video because it showed me the other side, ho teachers see their day, but It also showed me my teachers have it way easier than you...for starts no broken copiers. Great video, can´t wait for the next one. :D

  • My sister teaches high school in California and she had switched to different school districts due to what you've stated... So that's why there tends to be a sofa in women's restroom,to be use as a refuge?

  • "Lucky you"

    haha

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