Each English Trainer Will Relate to This Pre-Winter Break TikTok

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!

@educatorandrea

They were ✨not✨ cool. #fyp #teachersoftiktok #teachertok #teacherlife #tiktokteacher

♬ You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch – Thurl Ravenscroft

What was your favorite part of Andrea’s TikTok? Let us know in the comments.

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