Some students sometimes show all the colors to their teacher. Timothé Curado, who teaches physics and chemistry at the college, has compiled the best anecdotes in his book “Great teacher gems”.
During their career, any teacher will agree that they have already experienced funny situations with their students. Some young people, sometimes without meaning to, create memorable moments by giving an unexpected answer, making a remark or being caught lying. For many teachers, students are the most unpredictable beings there are. Precisely, Timothé Curado, who teaches physics and chemistry at college and shares the daily life of his profession on social networks, has compiled in a book all the anecdotes that have marked him (“The super pearls of teachers with Timothé Curado @timthc” Mango editions). Here are the ones that surprised us the most when reading the book:
When it comes to entertaining the class or having a little power, some students will stop at nothing, even if it means arguing with their teacher. One day, while this physics-chemistry teacher was giving his students oral exams, he was caught by one of them yawning. “I thought I had done it discreetly, but not sufficiently (…) The student interrupted: – Sir, tell me if I make you want to sleep. – Oops, sorry, you can continue. She continued his oral with a slight smile on his lips, like most of the others” comrades, he explained in his book.
Another situation, another anecdote. This time, it concerns the famous pieces of paper that students send each other at times hoping not to get caught. Timothé Curado had the good (or bad) idea of intercepting one of these words and was more than surprised by the content. “The student who sent it turns red, begs me not to read it and throw it away. (…) I read the message and at that moment, I hesitate between bursting out laughing or not . On the paper, we could read “did you see the teacher’s ball?”. The student didn’t know where to stand and his classmates were laughing.he recalls.
It is well known that most schoolchildren have a vivid imagination, and do not hesitate to put it to good use when they cannot do an exercise. “Sometimes, students prefer to justify themselves (…) Question: Convert 15 x 10³ cm into m. Answer: Sorry sir, I know the answer, but I’m too tired to look for the information in my brain. But, in true, it’s simple.” They also mobilize their imagination on strike days at school. “To avoid coming to class, they sent an email to the teachers to find out if they would go on strike, specifying that they only had this class during the day because the other teachers were on strike. When I received this email, I didn’t think about it and I told myself that I would move the class so as not to have them come for two hours. But it was a little later that I discovered the deception, when a teacher told me. ‘informed that I was on strike, when not at all (…) They had done everything to ensure that no teacher came that day. he notes.
Finally, some students excel not in class, but in the art of lying. “The year I was the fourth grade head teacher, I tried to see the parents at least once a year. I had a hard time for one student in particular since he told me that his mother did not speak French at all and that his father was abroad Despite the various words that I was able to put in the correspondence book, I did not meet the mother during the first parent-teacher meeting. So I called (…) and as he told me that she didn’t speak French, I was very articulate and I spoke very slowly to make sure she understood me. I was very surprised when she did. replied… – Yes, I am her mother, but why are you talking to me like that? She spoke French very well…”, he says in the book.