You Might Be a Teacher If…
Posted by Hope Spencer on 16 Sep 2009 | Posted in: Inspiration and Motivation, Life After School, Meet the Mailbox®, Teachers and Teaching
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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You don’t throw anything away because someday you might need it for a lesson or teach a different grade.
You see bad behavior out in public and you give them “the teacher look”.
You tell children who are running around in a store to “use your walking feet”.
You find yourself wanting to take out a red pen and correct mistakes in letters and memos that you receive.
You correct your child’s friends grammar when they say me and so and so.
You use proper punctuation, capitals, and full words when texting and emailing.
…You know the locations of all the teacher stores in a 50 mile radius to your house but forget where is the post office closest to your home.
…You have a list of rules hanging on your refridgerator that you review with guests to your home.
…You lavel everything in the cabinets with words and pictures so that it is easy for your husband to put the groceries away.
…Everywhere you go, people ask what is all over your fingers and you reply paint as if it is as normal as nailpolish.
-you eat so fast that you’re finished before others with you begin.
-you get enough napkins at the fast food restaurant for everyone.
You can’t find names to name your own children!
you can’t name your baby because every name reminds you of someone!
you always searching for art lesson every time you make internet connection.
-you have a secret stash of chocolates for when you have “one of those days”
-your husband gets mad when you use your “teacher voice” at home!
-you never know what day of the week it is during the months of June, July, and August
You forget to “go potty” during an entire day because you’re too busy making sure everyone else has!!!
You might be a pre-k teacher if you see a child in public with his shoes untied and you have to stop yourself from stooping down to tie them.
You catch yourself singing a song suitable only for 4 or 5 year old children while grocery shopping. Later in the checkout line, you realize the Thanksgiving macaroni necklace made with your class that day is still around your neck.
You might be a teacher if…
You find yourself playing “find the letters of the alphabet on groceries” in the grocery stores when you run into your students.
When you see your students out side of the classroom and they looked amazed that you actually DON’T live at school.
You might be a teacher if you sing a “wake up” song in the morning.