Data is a 4 letter word. Sick of it. Does know realize we teach children, not figures?! This all started way back with No Child Left Behind, which believe me, left plenty of children behind. We are producing test takers, not life long learners.
@@pesto12601 Thank you so much for kindly pointing out my grammatical error. I deeply apologize for omitting the correct pronoun. I will better proofread my responses for accuracy.
I teach HIGH SCHOOL students. I experience this kind of exasperation Every.Single.Day. "Place your work on the table at the front of the room. Put your Chromebooks up, and plug them in. Place your cellphones in the rack. Take the hall pass with you. Get your notebooks out. Don't touch him. Stop giggling, ffs." Every.Single.Day.
Absolutely. No rigor, very immature, ego-centric, and entitled. When school started emphasizing good data, it forgot about helping to make good people.
Jennifer Dixon stop doing that and let students learn and figure out what they need to do, not just what you want them to do on frivolous crap. I taught high school Algebra 1 Honors, advanced Algebra and Statistic Honors and AP. The first day of the school year I would have a PowerPoint presentation outlining how the classroom will function. For freshmen I was a tyrant the first 3 months of school year and then back off a little by little until my students had some freedoms like letting them drink soft drink in classroom, if they spilled it they cleaned it!!! Students want structure, they want to know what to expect when they walk into the classroom, just as we do as teachers. And don’t treat them like they are in 3rd grade, they have had enough of that crap by the time the hit 9th grade. They want to be treated as young adults in High School. Students will figure out you are trying to help them. I understand your frustration. I had students in Algebra 1 Honors that came into 9th grade functioning at a 3-4 grade level. In five years I can count on my hand how many students failed my class and failed the mandatory state end of course exams. I did not teach to the test either, the test got in the way of their learning. My freshmen would start in Algebra 1 Honors books and by second semester I was using Algebra 2 honors books for second semester. After test we would have 4 weeks left in the year so we would start trig and geometry with trig and finish touching on calculus!!!!!! Tell your students what they have to do to graduate. Bring in a guest speaker a senior from the previous year and have him/her tell them why Algebra is important for future endeavors. Students will respond when you push them and I pushed all my students HARD and they always responded. Administrators would watch my class and they would ask students questions like “do you have homework” and in one voice they would say every night and their homework were applied problems, 1-2 hours/night. At the beginning of the school year tell the students what you expect from them based on state standards. And one last thing, no extra credit! Students hear extra credit and they use it as a get out of jail free card. I never offered extra credit, period. I would always have a challenge problem on their test, which was always a very difficult problem. Surprisingly it would motivate average and below average students to push themselves. Try things and use the stuff that works and drop fancy dressing all administrators want, it doesn’t work. Last thought, don’t listen to teachers that are burnt out. Teaching should be fun and rewarding, if it’s not the case for you then try a different line of work.
@@jefftalbot83711. You are secondary, not elementary. Be aware that the two are completely different and have different regs.2. Appears you have supportive admin., not all do. 3. Feds actually require these ridiculous data collections and a school's funding often depends on it. We all wish we could just teach. The path out the door is paved with wonderful teachers both veteran and younger that are sick to death of what politicians have done in the name of fixing a "broken system".
Jeff Talbot I appreciate that your words of wisdom appear to be coming from a desire to be helpful. One of the reasons I enjoy Principal Brooks and Eddie B is that their humor is grounded in truth that only educators can fully understand. Of course, if either of these gentlemen and their students were as dysfunctional as they are portrayed, the powers that be would have dismissed both of them a long time ago. When I read a few of the comments for this video, I felt that secondary teachers were not represented, so I thought I would chime in. All of us have had the student who makes us think to ourselves “What is WRONG with you?!” If I actually spent all of my time barking out orders, nothing would get accomplished. My comment was meant to be in line with what Brooks was illustrating. I teach EC, general and honors level students (took AP training but opted out of AP Language because...boring). I teach mostly freshmen with a handful of juniors and seniors thrown my way from time to time. I am given primarily freshmen because I establish and maintain the structure they need. While I don’t treat them like they are in 3rd grade as you said, I am fully cognizant that first-semester freshmen lose their damn minds when they reach high school because they don’t know how to handle the freedom. When I have them again as juniors or seniors, they are already trained so to speak, which is awesome. I worked for a very large company for 8 yrs after graduating college and was restless. Went back to school for education licensure. I also worked my way through school, so I can confidently create relevancy for each lesson I teach. I don’t just talk the talk - I actually walked the walk. The 23 years I have been teaching have been overall enjoyable (the times that have not been enjoyable have had little to do with time spent with kids). There are times here and there, though, where I just want to grip a student by the shoulders and ask “What is WRONG with you?!”
After a long day of teaching after 23 years, I couldn't even get through this video - just makes me feel like a fool that I chose teaching as a career. As if I could ever make a difference.
OMG yes! I was so waiting for the "reading in my head" part! Also, yes you should have kept on going even if you finished the first page. That is why it says keep going in big bold letters at the bottom of the page. That was my conversation with a student on Friday!
Oh my YES. I was a parent volunteer throughout my kids elementary school days. Between time tests and grading illegible writing on tests to trying to memorize a kids handwriting because they will NOT put their name on their papers! My kid is in high school and I sometimes sub. Those same kids with the illegible printing are no better and our school system remediate should writing!
So glad we don't do this in high school. It is stupid. I don't care how long it takes for a kid to read something, as long as he reads. No wonder high schoolers hate reading!
In my elementary school parents volunteered to help with the school and they would help do these tests. We had some very involved parents, my mom included, and we got to know them. I remember them calling us in the hall one at a time to do the tests with us while our teachers got to keep teaching and the parents got to see their kids and the other students and be involved with the school. I also think we tended to behave better for them than for our teachers who we were with all the time too.
I always like it when they have to take a bathroom break, or need a drink, or tell me this is going to take forever. Well...10 minutes later, we finally finish.
I've been watching your videos for awhile. I don't have kids. I'm not an educator. I just find you very funny. However, reading the comments and seeing other teachers say this really is what it's like, makes me very worried. They say children are our future. That is frightening, lol. Keep up the great work, and the great videos.
When i was in high school i assisted the first grade. Some kids were wizards and some were not. I never did timed testing but it surely would have aged me. This was in 1974.
NO system is perfect.... Nobody learns the same way..... You want to individualize education: HOME SCHOOL your kids or pay for a PRIVATE teacher. Otherwise... HELP your kids learn, BE a parent and PARENT, LEARN and GROW together!!
Why you doin this before lunch, honey? You know that child is distracted and obviously adhd. Give that child a chance to refuel and be ready for focusin.
Funny... perhaps the child couldn’t read the words because of the balanced literacy tier one plus the reading recovery intervention that was given to him/her? Maybe the teachers need some better curriculum and LETRS training. Fascinating that once again you choose to make fun of struggling readers.
Melinda Mansfield I don’t think he is making fun of struggling readers, just showing the rest of the world the hoops we are forced to jump through and take our kids with us. 😢
Melinda Mansfield in no way is Gerry making fun of any students' reading skills. I substitute teach all grade levels preK to high school and at every level there are students who ask all kinds of questions, make all kinds of comments on the same lines as Gerry made in this video. Many of those students are students who have the ability to undertake the work easily but choose instead to focus on avoiding the work by asking/making distracting questions or comments. Then there are the many students who simply refuse to do their work. No data is collected on those students.
@@suzanneedmonds1566 and just maybe we need to stop narrowly and arbitrarily defining children and how children learn, and stop defining that with ridiculous labels.
The way he looks hopeful every time he mashes the button! 😂
This is EXACTLY what it's like! Do this 60 times and see how sane you are! 😫
Sounds like you need a "derlicious grape beverage" 😁
GERRY....... YOU NAILED IT!!!! And of course every state’s administration wants to have data on this crap........
Data is a 4 letter word. Sick of it. Does know realize we teach children, not figures?! This all started way back with No Child Left Behind, which believe me, left plenty of children behind. We are producing test takers, not life long learners.
@@ruthresetar5940 "Does know realize we teach children, not figures?!" - I see someone else who's been "left behind".
@@pesto12601 Thank you so much for kindly pointing out my grammatical error. I deeply apologize for omitting the correct pronoun. I will better proofread my responses for accuracy.
dumboli0321 send them this ! Lol
@ruthresetar5940 you can ignore trolls who can't interpret typos
OMG my child just had this testing and I’m positive at least 5 children in her class had this EXACT same experience. 😂. Gerry is the best !!!
Yessssss! Oh my gorsh! So true! Thank you for understanding the struggle
I teach HIGH SCHOOL students. I experience this kind of exasperation Every.Single.Day. "Place your work on the table at the front of the room. Put your Chromebooks up, and plug them in. Place your cellphones in the rack. Take the hall pass with you. Get your notebooks out. Don't touch him. Stop giggling, ffs." Every.Single.Day.
Absolutely. No rigor, very immature, ego-centric, and entitled. When school started emphasizing good data, it forgot about helping to make good people.
Jennifer Dixon stop doing that and let students learn and figure out what they need to do, not just what you want them to do on frivolous crap. I taught high school Algebra 1 Honors, advanced Algebra and Statistic Honors and AP. The first day of the school year I would have a PowerPoint presentation outlining how the classroom will function. For freshmen I was a tyrant the first 3 months of school year and then back off a little by little until my students had some freedoms like letting them drink soft drink in classroom, if they spilled it they cleaned it!!! Students want structure, they want to know what to expect when they walk into the classroom, just as we do as teachers. And don’t treat them like they are in 3rd grade, they have had enough of that crap by the time the hit 9th grade. They want to be treated as young adults in High School. Students will figure out you are trying to help them. I understand your frustration. I had students in Algebra 1 Honors that came into 9th grade functioning at a 3-4 grade level. In five years I can count on my hand how many students failed my class and failed the mandatory state end of course exams. I did not teach to the test either, the test got in the way of their learning. My freshmen would start in Algebra 1 Honors books and by second semester I was using Algebra 2 honors books for second semester. After test we would have 4 weeks left in the year so we would start trig and geometry with trig and finish touching on calculus!!!!!! Tell your students what they have to do to graduate. Bring in a guest speaker a senior from the previous year and have him/her tell them why Algebra is important for future endeavors. Students will respond when you push them and I pushed all my students HARD and they always responded. Administrators would watch my class and they would ask students questions like “do you have homework” and in one voice they would say every night and their homework were applied problems, 1-2 hours/night. At the beginning of the school year tell the students what you expect from them based on state standards. And one last thing, no extra credit! Students hear extra credit and they use it as a get out of jail free card. I never offered extra credit, period. I would always have a challenge problem on their test, which was always a very difficult problem. Surprisingly it would motivate average and below average students to push themselves. Try things and use the stuff that works and drop fancy dressing all administrators want, it doesn’t work. Last thought, don’t listen to teachers that are burnt out. Teaching should be fun and rewarding, if it’s not the case for you then try a different line of work.
@@jefftalbot83711. You are secondary, not elementary. Be aware that the two are completely different and have different regs.2. Appears you have supportive admin., not all do. 3. Feds actually require these ridiculous data collections and a school's funding often depends on it. We all wish we could just teach. The path out the door is paved with wonderful teachers both veteran and younger that are sick to death of what politicians have done in the name of fixing a "broken system".
Jeff Talbot I appreciate that your words of wisdom appear to be coming from a desire to be helpful. One of the reasons I enjoy Principal Brooks and Eddie B is that their humor is grounded in truth that only educators can fully understand. Of course, if either of these gentlemen and their students were as dysfunctional as they are portrayed, the powers that be would have dismissed both of them a long time ago. When I read a few of the comments for this video, I felt that secondary teachers were not represented, so I thought I would chime in. All of us have had the student who makes us think to ourselves “What is WRONG with you?!” If I actually spent all of my time barking out orders, nothing would get accomplished. My comment was meant to be in line with what Brooks was illustrating. I teach EC, general and honors level students (took AP training but opted out of AP Language because...boring). I teach mostly freshmen with a handful of juniors and seniors thrown my way from time to time. I am given primarily freshmen because I establish and maintain the structure they need. While I don’t treat them like they are in 3rd grade as you said, I am fully cognizant that first-semester freshmen lose their damn minds when they reach high school because they don’t know how to handle the freedom. When I have them again as juniors or seniors, they are already trained so to speak, which is awesome. I worked for a very large company for 8 yrs after graduating college and was restless. Went back to school for education licensure. I also worked my way through school, so I can confidently create relevancy for each lesson I teach. I don’t just talk the talk - I actually walked the walk. The 23 years I have been teaching have been overall enjoyable (the times that have not been enjoyable have had little to do with time spent with kids). There are times here and there, though, where I just want to grip a student by the shoulders and ask “What is WRONG with you?!”
@@jefftalbot8371 Try teaching a regular class and not an honors class and see how it goes. The students are very different.
Rolling!Perfection at demonstrating how teachers feel while working with the students. You nail it every time!!!!
Every. Single. Day!
After a long day of teaching after 23 years, I couldn't even get through this video - just makes me feel like a fool that I chose teaching as a career. As if I could ever make a difference.
For a great time...watch a Gerry Brooks video...lol! Love your stuff man. This totally made my day. So truuuue!!
I wish I could like this about 50 times!
Before I retired, we had to do DIBELS testing for reading 3 times a year. This was a throwback memory.
The DIBELS test is difficult to administer
Still using it. Just progress monitored today.
Marr Blankenship your memory... some poor teacher’s current reality smh
What are DIBELS
Marr In Memphis hated Dibels
You are hilarious. Bravo - great video!!
I can so relate to this.
This kind of nonsense from people who have never taught in a real situation with real children is destroying our education system... 🤦🤦
Exactly.
Don't follow the curriculum; you know what to do. Life skills; street smarts ; and common sence without cell phones or calculators.
OMG yes! I was so waiting for the "reading in my head" part! Also, yes you should have kept on going even if you finished the first page. That is why it says keep going in big bold letters at the bottom of the page. That was my conversation with a student on Friday!
O...M...G! You need a ton of Advil.🤣🤣
Oh my YES. I was a parent volunteer throughout my kids elementary school days. Between time tests and grading illegible writing on tests to trying to memorize a kids handwriting because they will NOT put their name on their papers! My kid is in high school and I sometimes sub. Those same kids with the illegible printing are no better and our school system remediate should writing!
🤣 Just did this today!!🤣 I like his stopwatch better!
Very real- and not very helpful. It is required, but not a great way to evaluate reading.
Oh goody. That QRI Busy Beavers is as noticeable as Johnny Appleseed. 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
I'm not a teacher but I love your videos. This one reminded me of every time I tried to help my grandson with his homework.
She’s bored stiff. Her creativity is taking her places she wants us to go! It’s horrible we have to force these kids into that box!
So glad we don't do this in high school. It is stupid. I don't care how long it takes for a kid to read something, as long as he reads. No wonder high schoolers hate reading!
Have been waiting for your next video for ages😊
Gerry you are always right on the mark!
In my elementary school parents volunteered to help with the school and they would help do these tests. We had some very involved parents, my mom included, and we got to know them. I remember them calling us in the hall one at a time to do the tests with us while our teachers got to keep teaching and the parents got to see their kids and the other students and be involved with the school. I also think we tended to behave better for them than for our teachers who we were with all the time too.
I always like it when they have to take a bathroom break, or need a drink, or tell me this is going to take forever. Well...10 minutes later, we finally finish.
Proof that F&P balenced literacy, running records, etc are developmentally inappropriate. Child doing what comes to mind, teacher frustrated.
The world, and me, need Tiffany ....
Is this real? Are teachers having to go through this with the stop watch?
Yes
Oh, yes
Yes.
Yes - while simultaneously monitoring 23 other students!
Jennifer Martin YES! Pulling individual students out to do the assessment with the other kids at their desks doing “seat work.”
Giggled the whole way through!!! Felt like I was back in school.
My blood pressure was going up and up and up during this.
I've been watching your videos for awhile. I don't have kids. I'm not an educator. I just find you very funny. However, reading the comments and seeing other teachers say this really is what it's like, makes me very worried. They say children are our future. That is frightening, lol. Keep up the great work, and the great videos.
Lol! Sooo true! 🤣
My life. When people ask what I do I think I will just show them this video.
When i was in high school i assisted the first grade. Some kids were wizards and some were not. I never did timed testing but it surely would have aged me. This was in 1974.
On point again
Lol. The accuracy!
I function the same way when being tested while hungry.
And then the state says you are not doing enough
NO system is perfect.... Nobody learns the same way..... You want to individualize education: HOME SCHOOL your kids or pay for a PRIVATE teacher. Otherwise... HELP your kids learn, BE a parent and PARENT, LEARN and GROW together!!
00:07 You lost me at "Watch Stop."
beteeho Same! 🤣 Reminded me of my daughter saying beltseat instead of seatbelt.
Oh my stars 🌟 ‼️ I thought it was just my class 😂🤣😂🤣
Oh. Y gosh! A cannabis investing ad at the end of the video? Too funny!
This is hilarious!!!! 😂😂
Reality!!!
This is true but the passages we read are way harder than Billy loves cookies.
OOOOMMMMMGGG this is exactly how it goes and then you have admin looking for their data...demanding their data for Data Days!
And that is why I do not do elementary. Periot.
And the rest of the class is........
Jack Wahl Exactly.
Jack Wahl talk amongst yourselves children.
OMG!! 🤣 Welcome to my life! LOL!!!
Spot on.
This would make me drink but not Pepsi or milk !!!!!!!!!!
Oh. My. Word........ 😵😱🤪
every time
This is SO for real!
Principal. Gerry, how's that progress coming lol
Ok...do a video on dealing with high school students. LOL!!!
Where can I buy that
My teacher has pictures of u and her at this place with Mrs Tecter and everyone do u remember??
I wish i'd had you for a principal, I would not have gotten some many licks in school. hahaha
Not an exaggeration
Glad I don't live this reality. Sorry all who do. x
I'm so glad I decided not to be a teacher.
Every. Day. 😂
Why you doin this before lunch, honey? You know that child is distracted and obviously adhd. Give that child a chance to refuel and be ready for focusin.
We have to get them when we can.
Seriously. When it is flu season heaven help us!
@@kristaltickle2740 Are you serious???? There is no good time to treat children this way!!!!
🤪
Hi Gerry plz notice me
How to teach the love of learning. Who comes up with this crap???
Funny... perhaps the child couldn’t read the words because of the balanced literacy tier one plus the reading recovery intervention that was given to him/her? Maybe the teachers need some better curriculum and LETRS training. Fascinating that once again you choose to make fun of struggling readers.
Melinda Mansfield I don’t think he is making fun of struggling readers, just showing the rest of the world the hoops we are forced to jump through and take our kids with us. 😢
Melinda Mansfield in no way is Gerry making fun of any students' reading skills. I substitute teach all grade levels preK to high school and at every level there are students who ask all kinds of questions, make all kinds of comments on the same lines as Gerry made in this video. Many of those students are students who have the ability to undertake the work easily but choose instead to focus on avoiding the work by asking/making distracting questions or comments. Then there are the many students who simply refuse to do their work. No data is collected on those students.
@@suzanneedmonds1566 and just maybe we need to stop narrowly and arbitrarily defining children and how children learn, and stop defining that with ridiculous labels.