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[Ihavenolips]

There are specific moments in a classroom in which I realize that I am no longer teaching adults at the college level. I really know that I am teaching children when ...

1) Students are more fascinated by pulling on my arm hair than by learning adjectives and adverbs.
2) Students break into full blown fist fights over Pokeman and Maple Story characters.
3) Students start crying at the beginning of class when you take away their Ramen noodles.
4) Students offer you dried squid and silk worm pupae as a gift.
5) Students can solve all conflicts and heal any wounds by playing a simple game of Kai, Bai, Bo (rock, paper, scissors).
6) Students climb on my back like a monkey and make me carry them across the room.
7) Students jump on top of tables and chairs to announce that they are not Babo.
Students run around the classroom with wet toilet paper all over their face, shouting "I am ghost boy, I am ghost boy".
9) Students hide under the table when you try to persuade them to practice their vowels.
10) You go home from teaching with marker stains on your shirt, melted candy smeared all over your tie, and your clothing smelling like the play-doughy hands of children.

And....

[captain kirk]

You joke around about how Uhn Gee likes Ben, and Uhn Gee starts bawling, head down on the desk. Five minutes later everyone's saying 'teacher, koh pee!'. Look at Betty whose got her chin up, no blood yet. Then a dribble. Open the door and yell to the receptionist and boss, 'koh pee! tissue nose plug, stat!'. Betty returns with a paper plug hanging out of her nose, smiling, back to Let's Go 1, no interruption in the flow.

Say, 'hey, hamsterface!' to a guy playing tug-a-war with a guy the other side of a classroom door. No reaction, he's concentrating all his strength on the doorknob. Couldn't call an adult student 'hamsterface' and not get a reaction.

Hyper today, are we? Nibbling up an eraser into little bits all over he table. Desist. Then ripping bits off the textbook. Told to desist. Then playing with my watch. Yelling answers like there's a fire. Gotta be a kid on fire like that. An adult I'd worry

[SuperHero]

You wake up in the midlle of the night screaming

Why Me? Why Me! Life Sucks, Why Me!

[Grotto]

You find yourself learning how to make balloon animals to reward good students.

You understand the true power of a sticker!

You can talk while being petted like a cat by several students and not get upset.

You concentrate a months worth of lesson time to teaching them it is alright to blow your nose and to cover your mouth when you cough

You have mastered coloring, pasting, wordsearch puzzles and can glance at a connect the dots and see what the picture will be

[shawner88]

When kids stick their fingers up your butt and you just laugh it off.

You get a kick out of kids drawings of poop. In fact you can draw poop pretty well now too.

You eat poop for breakfast!

[Toby]

A girl pees on your lap.

[PEIGUY]

they try to look down your shirt at your chest hair..

[Toby]

[pet lover]

...You have to stand inside the bathroom with your face averted to listen for activity to be sure that they really did go to the bathroom before class and won't ask to go within ten minutes of opening the book. (John always lies and says he went.)

...You have to tell the students to stop kissing each other.

...You walk inside the room and there are no students in sight but certainly in hearing--they are all under the table giggling madly.

...When they are practicing their penmanship and have to fill an entire line with a certain letter, they each hold up their papers and call out, "Is it pretty?" after every single letter until you desperately beg them to just finish the line and THEN show their paper.

...You get all sorts of little "gifts" dragged from the depths of their bags.

...You do the hokey pokey and shake it all about.

...When they are seated properly on their chairs, they can barely reach the table.

...They never sit on the chairs, they squat so that they can somewhat reach the table.

...Your leg gets greeted with a huge hug every day and sometimes you get a kiss just above the knee.

...Out of self-preservation, you have learned not to be ticklish.

[kermo]

You are greeted by "Annyeong Has-- Hello!" more times than you could count, and you say hello approximately 900 times per day.


(Wow, thanks you guys.
This post made me giggle, and reconsider what I judge to be a "reasonably controlled" classroom.)

[peppermint]

When you hear "I love you" a jillion times a day-

[Chillin' Villain]

[Yangkho]

...when you look forward to work every day.

[OiGirl]

You are reading a book about anger as two students beat on each other.

(Either children or convicts...)

[Dawn]

You've got well over 1,000 books in your apartment, but most of them are only 24-32 pages with full-color pictures on every page.

Your favorite authors have pen names like "Dr. Seuss" and "Aliki."

You catch yourself singing "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" as you clean house.

You've seen every Magic School Bus video ever made.

You utter the words "Did you wash your hands with soap?" more often than "Hello!" in the average day.