If you’re a regular blog reader, you know how much I love teachers. Usually, when I meet someone new, I can tell within a few minutes whether the person is a teacher. Teachers are just special like nobody else I know. What can I say? Who else can appreciate a teacher’s job the way teachers do?

Hey, let’s take a step back today and look at the fun, humorous side of teaching. Let’s tell some sweet, positive stories that only teachers will understand. We know who we are and what we do! Let’s hear it for teachers!

To start, I’ll modify a prompt from a famous comedian: You might be a teacher if…

  • You tell your husband to use his “inside voice.”
  • Your Christmas tree is covered with handmade ornaments–that were made by other people’s children.
  • You tell strangers to spit out their gum.
  • When you’re in the mall and a child runs by you, you stop him and tell him to walk.
  • You can’t remember the last time you read a book that didn’t have pictures in it.
  • When you’re in a store, you ask people not to cut in line.

Get the idea? Let’s have fun and share a giggle!

Your admiring blog host,

Hope

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  1. 16 Sep 2009 at 3:08 pm # 11.  Sharon

    You might have a teacher in your house if you find chalk in your dryer!!

  2. 16 Sep 2009 at 2:58 pm # 10.  Debbie

    If you see a sign on the side of the road that says “FREE” on a book stand and you stop and load up your car!

  3. 16 Sep 2009 at 2:30 pm # 9.  Shannon

    You might be a teacher if you always have a neatly folded tissue or 20 in your pocket.

    You might be a teacher if you lovingly name your gray hairs after certain students (wink)

    You might be a teacher if you hoard shoe boxes, pringles cans, coffee cans and old socks!

  4. 16 Sep 2009 at 1:29 pm # 8.  Tammy

    You’re asking the doctor’s office receptionist if you could have their magazines when they’re done so you have some in your classroom for kids to cut out pictures.

  5. 16 Sep 2009 at 11:39 am # 7.  Diana

    You might be a teacher if children are attracted to you like a magnet. I teach special education preschool. When I go to a restaurant(fast food) or grocery stores the little kids always look and smile at me! It’s like they know I’m a teacher.

  6. 16 Sep 2009 at 11:28 am # 6.  Paula

    You might be a teacher if you spend your free time searching for free things for your class

  7. 16 Sep 2009 at 11:10 am # 5.  Kim

    …you can turn anything “free” into a teaching tool.
    …while shopping over break, you have to ask the clerk what day it is. After all, you haven’t had your daily “calendar” activity time!)
    …you’ll let a friend-in-need borrow your car, but think twice before lending out your dog-eared copy of Where the Sidewalk Ends.
    …you organize a posse to go with you to the office store in order to follow the quantity limits, yet still secure enough 1 cent rulers for your entire class.

    I could go on and on. This blog is too fun! What a great warm-up for anyone leading a peer workshop or staff development opportunity!

    By the way, my husband wonders if there is to be a followup, “you are married to an educator if…”, since he resoundingly connected with the part about being told to use his inside voice!

  8. 16 Sep 2009 at 10:49 am # 4.  Jean

    you go to Wal Mart with a sticker on your shirt and a stamp on your hand.

  9. 16 Sep 2009 at 8:27 am # 3.  Amy

    You might be a teacher if you tell a family member, “that was (or was not) a very good choice.”

  10. 16 Sep 2009 at 8:04 am # 2.  Laura

    You can’t help but count heads when out with the family!

  11. 16 Sep 2009 at 7:49 am # 1.  nelida

    Fingerpaint is considered a fashion statement, when you are a teacher.

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