![]() And while those embarrassing moments may make you want to bury your head in the sand à la an ostrich, the best way to get over them IMHO is to share your story. “The kids were thrilled, but I was so embarrassed,” Beshore said.Chances are you’ve made a complete fool of yourself at least once in your life. I managed to get to school early on test day so that I could copy my masterpiece, but the only copier I knew about in the building was broken.”īeshore found out that the repair guy was coming eventually, but it would not be in time for her test, and she has to cancel her first test in her teaching career. “I took so long to make it, however, that I found myself behind on copies. “This test was absolutely perfect,” Beshore said. She wanted to make sure her very first test was perfect, so she spent hours pining over each question and toiling over the answer choices and writing responses. “I had just finished teaching my first unit of British Literature. “My first year as a teacher the high school was on 44th Street where Glenwood is now,” Beshore said. So imagine English teacher Angela Beshore’s humiliation when she messed up on her first one. One of the big parts of being a teacher is giving assessments to your students. She didn’t really apologize or anything either.” “She made me show her my badge and everything. “I soon realized it wasn’t a joke,” Zaremba said. The cafeteria worker came down and asked Zaremba where the teacher was, to which she laughed at. “I had won a door decorating contest, so a lunch lady was coming down to give me my prize,” Zaremba said. But in her first year teaching, an adult actually did not believe that she was a teacher. When she found out, she was extremely embarrassed and felt bad for doing it so often.īeing one of the younger teachers at the school, Zaremba often gets lost among the sea of kids. ![]() The student asked her if she knew what it meant. ![]() One day a student asked her why she had been making that gesture so much, which she thought was a weird question. ![]() I was unaware of it, or I had forgotten,” Molina said. “Well, in American culture, this is an offensive gesture. It was a simple motion in which one brushes their fingertip upward along their neck. One of the gestures she had picked up in her time in Argentina was used to express “I don’t know”. “I started teaching here at GlenOak, but I had been living in Argentina for 17 years and picked up some gestures that are not used in English/American culture,” Molina said. Spanish teacher Silvia Molina had an awkward moment when she came to the United States. “I know it is not a unique story, but embarrassing nonetheless.” “I know that this happens to everyone, but I was amazed that my zipper was down for almost three hours before anyone told me,” Cribbs said. “Unbeknownst to me, I had forgotten to zip my pants when I was done.”Ĭribbs said that no one said anything for three whole periods about his mishap, and he taught for the entirety of periods 3/4 and 5 before a student hesitantly brought it up to him. “One year I had my planning period during 2nd period, and I would go to the bathroom before needing to be back in class to begin my 3rd period class,” Cribbs said. Government teacher Matthew Cribbs had a classic embarrassing moment one year after a planning period. “I didn’t vote him for Outstanding Senior because I thought he was on the list by mistake.” “It kind of backfired on him,” said Zaremba. She eventually discovered that he was actually in his last year of school when she went to finalize grades, and that everyone had tricked her for months. “I started telling my other classes, too, that I thought he was a senior, and nobody corrected me.” “Everyone was telling me he was a junior, and I realized I must’ve just messed up,” Zaremba said. Senior AP student Matthew Garfinkle and his classmates devised a story about how the reason he was taking AP as a junior had to do with a schedule change, which is not too far from the truth. One of physics teacher Annie Zaremba’s most embarrassing moments occurred this year, when she was duped into thinking one of her students was a whole year younger than they really are. And that does not exclude some of the teachers of this very high school. Whether it is falling, slipping up on your word or forgetting someone’s name, we all have those times. Because that one embarrassing thing you said on your first day of third grade is keeping you up.Įmbarrassing moments happen all the time. You are in a cold sweat, tossing in your sheets, and want nothing more than to just be able to fall asleep.
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