I never had to run errands in school because the one time I was asked I ended up crying because I didn’t know where anything was and gave it to another kid in the hallway to do
My favorite teachers always gave me options. Physics was always "so long a you're not bothering others, do what you want", so I was messing around in the physics modeling software we were using. Others were "you can do some reading (bonus, big reader, always had a book with me) or do you WANT to run some errands (sure, I like wandering around), least of course was "just put your head down and stay quiet. Of the teachers I liked.
I often got rude hostility… accusations of just “skimming” it or sloppiness by “speeding” thru. Uhm no. Check my work. Me: “A minus? why the minus? I got them all right.” Teacher: “Because I told you before to slow down and not be sloppy.” Me: “I did go slower just for you.” Teacher:”Oh you think you are so smart. Keep it up with being a smart alek and I’ll send you to the principal!” Some of the teachers HATE smart kids. Jealous of the high IQ kids. i didn’t understand it back then but I can see it now. I just didn’t know why I got hostility from some teachers. I was a good well behaved kid.
Lmfaoo no she is not. While she is a wonderful human and I love her style of teaching as it humanizes kids a lot of parents would have a pure tee damn fit! They are actively trying to pass laws that will suppress and erase teachers like her
God, I hated that in primary school. It is literally impossible to have a set time for 'how long' assigned work takes. Every student has their strengths and weaknesses, and their own pace that works best for them. Mine just happened to be slightly faster than the others 🤷♀️
I’d recheck and then go up to the teacher for them to recheck because I’d be anxious about how long it took me but I also didn’t trust myself when I did recheck
Man, the day a standardized testing proctor asked me if I was sure I paid attention and I looked her in the eye and said yes was the day I first challenged my anxieties. And the joy of watching her backtrack to “and if it’s this good now, imagine how good it would be if you took your time next time” was beautiful.
I sometimes got into trouble for finishing work early, but I discovered most teachers were ok if you finished then started reading a book (which was all I wanted to do anyway), so I always had a book in my bag to bring out when I'd finished my class work.
@@roche320 that's horrible!! i understand if the work that's being done in class is to lesson homework load but i have a feeling that's not what's happening here... those poor kids i wish the school systems and all were more conducive to fostering independence and personal growth yk :( i remember i used to love love love reading in elementary and middle school and would get so excited whenever i was able to have some reading time in class!
Or they were okay with coloring/drawing/doodling. As an inspiring artist, who only wanted to do art 24/7, I loved finishing early then getting back to drawing. Math was alway interrupting my art time 😊
@@fairygrl999 i had a teacher tell me specifically i wasnt allowed to read while all the other kids were allowed to because i "Read too much" since i always finished my work quickly
Many teachers who use the errand runner method are giving kids who need to move about a chance to do so. It also empowers some children to feel important by having a task. I loved running errands!
I was tutor for hire and the errand runner. On the latter my second grade teacher had me convinced I was the best note passer-oner ever to grace her presence. She would tell me I was very trustworthy and quick. Anyway took me years to realize the errands weren’t for her, they were for me. She prevented me from boredom and also gave me some confidence, even if she was just being strategic it means a lot that she put in that extra attention and care, other teacher would make me seem like a discipline case, but the teacher I had like her made the biggest difference.
THIS.IS.IT. The last one is how I aspire to be simply parenting my children. Every person desires to be recognized &/ or encouraged when they complete something earlier than anticipated, and some students find added responsibility more of a challenge, and not a chore. I so very much appreciate your content and your humanity.
as somebody who finished their work early in elementary almost every single time, I truly loved when teacher has me do errands. I struggled with being quite and stuff so i was sent on “Missions” and it was the highlight of my day. I also enjoyed helping others. I felt useful and it helped a lot with me not disturbing the class.
When I was in elementary seeing other kids have free time would make me hurry and not take my time. I would eventually give up on the assignment or fill in random bubbles.
“Just be quiet” and “free time” were the best. I could either take a nap and wake up, half way zoned out, or I could listen to music/read a book/novel/take a nap.
the few times i finished early I had a lot of the teachers that would be rude about it, so I started quietly going on ahead on a separate piece of paper so i could cover it if they didn’t want me to go ahead. Or I would just pretend to be very interested in one of the questions. Either way I didn’t need them making me feel bad for being productive.
I loved running errands for the teacher, gave me time to get out of the class room and breath. I was always anxious from being overstimulated and need a break from social interaction. 😅 I would quietly drop things off without saying a word
Ha! Send that to Megan Trainer! Thanks Jere for being real, true, & honest. ❤ your message. Keep up the videos. I love watching u eat lunch on my lunch. As I work in an elementary life skills class & need to laugh on my break. You'd be awesome on our team. Your kids are lucky to have u MS. Chang!
You seem like you're definitely the best teacher: the one who gives well earned breaks so their students don't burn out. Unfortunately, you're a rarity, however, get up the good work, Mrs. Chang. You truly are the kind who changes lives, and touch student's hearts, it's magical what you do 💖
But don't even THINK about getting out work for another subject (or worse...another TEACHER). I never understood why ALL of my K-12 teachers we so dang strict about that.
I loved helping other kids when i was in school. My mom was a teacher and i may go into teaching myself. I've already worked as an aid for special needs students and i loved it
I teach high school students. I love to allow them the opportunity for chill breaks. These kids are always on the go and taking a minute to just look out the window and appreciate life never hurt anyone.
Just based off how i manage my team at work, i have a feeling I'd be the errend runner 🤣 "hmm well im not allowed to leave the building, but if you run over to five guys for me.."
Shoutout to the teacher who yelled at me because I was reading silently after having finished my work, and when I asked what I should be doing instead, told me to just "do the work again". God it's a miracle I made it out of school in one piece
It’s obvious you’re the last one! I don’t have kids, but I’m so thankful your students have a teacher like you 💜 you’re making a huge difference, trust and believe that!!
I liked the teachers who made me into a deputy tutor honestly. I liked (and still like) explaining stuff and I feel kind it made me understand it better
I loved the free time. Most teachers eventually picked up that I just wanted to read my book of the day, and gave me blanket permission to just start reading when I finished work, no need to ask.
My teacher is always like either help the students, put your head down, read a book, sit quietly, check your work, do the next problems or unfinished work
I've always LOVED doing errand runs for teachers, im in high school and still get SO excited for the runs. I get to roam around to find places and not get in trouble for it.
The „sit still, do nothing, and don’t interrupt your classmates with your bored presence“ after finishing early, felt always like a punishment. And I did enjoy extra work or starting homework, so I didn’t had to do everything at home while I had the time doing the school day.
I taught 4th/5th grade. They had options, but free time was always their choice! I loved it, not trying to give myself more work by telling them to do more work. They liked their down time and always preferred reading or a quiet game while they waited. They were awesome!
As someone who had undiagnosed ADHD growing up but was also insanely quick with work, "just put your head down and be quiet" was ACTUAL torture. I can be quiet if I'm allowed to read, draw, write... But to just... Sit there... I am not exaggerating. I have to dissociate to be ok.
Running errands for teachers is great for two reasons: One, depending on the amount of stuff they asked you to do, it gives you quiet time. Two, it cuts a few minutes if the class is boring, loud, etc.
Some of these are super necessary (not the sarcastic one) for children who get bored/need stimuli. If I tell some of my students to relax or take a break they’re climbing the walls in minutes.
All my math teacher says is just to not get on her nerves and that’s pretty much it so you could like walk around and play games on your iPad ( my school uses iPads) and she just lets us walk out of class if we need to use the restroom but one of her number one rules is to not throw up in her class so yeah! :D
getting a break is great 'cause it's very rare to actually get them during school I used to get breaks during spanish but sometimes I walk up to my teacher and ask questions about words or ask if she needs me to do anything like grabbing papers or smth I've actually made the executive decision to only use my off hour for schoolwork if it's absolutely necessary because otherwise I'd go crazy with all the work and whatnot
I never told people that i was done with my work, I just brought out a book. My teachers always got so annoyed with me. I wouldn't focus in class because I was reading all the time. great memories
I used to finish my work really early in 7th grade honors math. My teacher would loan me books to read. Including 1984! The whole class tended to finish early, so we ended up finishing the entire curriculum a few weeks early. He had a couple of old Apple computers in the back (this was mid-90s, so OLD, black screens with green text), so we spent the last couple of weeks of the spring semester learning how to program!
honestly having adhd was really difficult when id finish early and have nothing else to do but fidget around, so i'm super grateful for the teachers who'd give me little errands to run or talk to me/engage me with my interests until everyone else had also finished. made me feel useful and less awkward for being a little different. ^_^
I had the problem of saying “you can play on your computer while everyone else finishes” and in 5 seconds, a bunch of kids got excited saying “we can play on our computers?!” And all the sudden there were papers filled out with all wrong answers and like, two of the kids didn’t even make real numbers just scribbles??? I then said “I have to check your work before you get free time” to “okay we’re just doing this all together”. Life of a sub.
I was either the tutor or the free time one, but by default usually free time. If the teacher saw though, i usually had to go help some people, but I actually really enjoyed helping 😊
I was the one who had to help the other students. I would finish my creative writing assignments first and then the teacher would say when the rest of the class needed their work proof-read to go to her or me. I never signed up for that.
As a gifted kid, man I wish I'd had a class like yours. We only visited gifted every few days then went back to our room. I'd love to have been separated!
But honestly in elementary school it was the best feeling when the teacher would have you run errands for them
Fr!! I always do errands for my teacher, and I always feel great after!
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I never had to run errands in school because the one time I was asked I ended up crying because I didn’t know where anything was and gave it to another kid in the hallway to do
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My favorite teachers always gave me options. Physics was always "so long a you're not bothering others, do what you want", so I was messing around in the physics modeling software we were using. Others were "you can do some reading (bonus, big reader, always had a book with me) or do you WANT to run some errands (sure, I like wandering around), least of course was "just put your head down and stay quiet. Of the teachers I liked.
Errand runner and free time have to be the best two, imo. I love just getting a break from thinking during school lmfao
The head down one also if you can get a nap in
I liked these options.. errand running you got to roam the halls and see what everyone was doing 😂
Yeees! I never got to do chores at home, so when my teacher gave me an errand it made me feel really useful!
You are the teacher every parent wishes their child had. You are an awesome teacher. More need be like you.
Thank you 😊
I often got rude hostility…
accusations of just “skimming” it or sloppiness by “speeding” thru.
Uhm no.
Check my work.
Me: “A minus? why the minus? I got them all right.”
Teacher: “Because I told you before to slow down and not be sloppy.”
Me: “I did go slower just for you.”
Teacher:”Oh you think you are so smart. Keep it up with being a smart alek and I’ll send you to the principal!”
Some of the teachers HATE smart kids. Jealous of the high IQ kids. i didn’t understand it back then but I can see it now. I just didn’t know why I got hostility from some teachers. I was a good well behaved kid.
@@beastshawnee whoa. Its not THAT big a deal. Just internet funnys
Lmfaoo no she is not. While she is a wonderful human and I love her style of teaching as it humanizes kids a lot of parents would have a pure tee damn fit! They are actively trying to pass laws that will suppress and erase teachers like her
@@adrenalineliberation because we need more robots in the near future. More Slaves... 😅😅
or the teacher who says “you’re done already?? go back and check you work!! it should have taken a lot longer!!”
This 🤣
God, I hated that in primary school. It is literally impossible to have a set time for 'how long' assigned work takes. Every student has their strengths and weaknesses, and their own pace that works best for them. Mine just happened to be slightly faster than the others 🤷♀️
@becc That and when u recheck u tend to second guess ur answers
I’d recheck and then go up to the teacher for them to recheck because I’d be anxious about how long it took me but I also didn’t trust myself when I did recheck
Man, the day a standardized testing proctor asked me if I was sure I paid attention and I looked her in the eye and said yes was the day I first challenged my anxieties.
And the joy of watching her backtrack to “and if it’s this good now, imagine how good it would be if you took your time next time” was beautiful.
I love that the other teachers are Clue characters.
My favorite movie
@@mschanggifted Me too! It’s the funniest movie ever!
@@mschanggiftedoh my gosh same!! I knew you were cool, but now you’re like, COOL cool!!
I thought I was the only one that noticed! I did Clue for a ballet performance!
I was going to say that lol
Just remember not to be the sarcastic teacher: it's invalidating and just makes you feel like shit
I sometimes got into trouble for finishing work early, but I discovered most teachers were ok if you finished then started reading a book (which was all I wanted to do anyway), so I always had a book in my bag to bring out when I'd finished my class work.
My current school doesn't want us to allow students to even read a book. They're expected to continue with other work or study.
@@roche320 that's horrible!! i understand if the work that's being done in class is to lesson homework load but i have a feeling that's not what's happening here... those poor kids i wish the school systems and all were more conducive to fostering independence and personal growth yk :( i remember i used to love love love reading in elementary and middle school and would get so excited whenever i was able to have some reading time in class!
Or they were okay with coloring/drawing/doodling.
As an inspiring artist, who only wanted to do art 24/7, I loved finishing early then getting back to drawing.
Math was alway interrupting my art time 😊
@@roche320 that just sad
@@fairygrl999 i had a teacher tell me specifically i wasnt allowed to read while all the other kids were allowed to because i "Read too much" since i always finished my work quickly
Theres also the "doubter" that tells you to go back ajd do it again because thry dint believe lol
Many teachers who use the errand runner method are giving kids who need to move about a chance to do so. It also empowers some children to feel important by having a task. I loved running errands!
I was tutor for hire and the errand runner. On the latter my second grade teacher had me convinced I was the best note passer-oner ever to grace her presence. She would tell me I was very trustworthy and quick. Anyway took me years to realize the errands weren’t for her, they were for me. She prevented me from boredom and also gave me some confidence, even if she was just being strategic it means a lot that she put in that extra attention and care, other teacher would make me seem like a discipline case, but the teacher I had like her made the biggest difference.
THIS.IS.IT. The last one is how I aspire to be simply parenting my children. Every person desires to be recognized &/ or encouraged when they complete something earlier than anticipated, and some students find added responsibility more of a challenge, and not a chore. I so very much appreciate your content and your humanity.
as somebody who finished their work early in elementary almost every single time, I truly loved when teacher has me do errands. I struggled with being quite and stuff so i was sent on “Missions” and it was the highlight of my day. I also enjoyed helping others. I felt useful and it helped a lot with me not disturbing the class.
When I was in elementary seeing other kids have free time would make me hurry and not take my time. I would eventually give up on the assignment or fill in random bubbles.
You are the best. I wish I could move to your state so my son can be in your class. Your the best!
Man! I spent more time with my head down on the desk more than I did with it up.
I've learned sarcasm when they present a small achievement like finishing work early actually hurts the child, it's better to just be gentle ❤
“Just be quiet” and “free time” were the best. I could either take a nap and wake up, half way zoned out, or I could listen to music/read a book/novel/take a nap.
the few times i finished early I had a lot of the teachers that would be rude about it, so I started quietly going on ahead on a separate piece of paper so i could cover it if they didn’t want me to go ahead. Or I would just pretend to be very interested in one of the questions. Either way I didn’t need them making me feel bad for being productive.
Or the "You should go over it and look for mistakes."
This
I loved running errands for the teacher, gave me time to get out of the class room and breath. I was always anxious from being overstimulated and need a break from social interaction. 😅 I would quietly drop things off without saying a word
The sarcastic one made everyone feel so bad about themselves, I’m glad you recognize the correct reaction😂
Ha! Send that to Megan Trainer! Thanks Jere for being real, true, & honest. ❤ your message. Keep up the videos. I love watching u eat lunch on my lunch. As I work in an elementary life skills class & need to laugh on my break. You'd be awesome on our team. Your kids are lucky to have u MS. Chang!
Thanks. I got lots of hateful comments from that Meghan Trainor video
You seem like you're definitely the best teacher: the one who gives well earned breaks so their students don't burn out.
Unfortunately, you're a rarity, however, get up the good work, Mrs. Chang. You truly are the kind who changes lives, and touch student's hearts, it's magical what you do 💖
But don't even THINK about getting out work for another subject (or worse...another TEACHER). I never understood why ALL of my K-12 teachers we so dang strict about that.
I loved helping other kids when i was in school. My mom was a teacher and i may go into teaching myself. I've already worked as an aid for special needs students and i loved it
The last one is always my fave cuz it's an incentive for finishing and not a punishment lol
I'm the break kind, I love rewarding the kids when they work thier hardest. As the saying goes, "Work hard, play hard."
I teach high school students. I love to allow them the opportunity for chill breaks. These kids are always on the go and taking a minute to just look out the window and appreciate life never hurt anyone.
Just based off how i manage my team at work, i have a feeling I'd be the errend runner 🤣 "hmm well im not allowed to leave the building, but if you run over to five guys for me.."
Don’t forget the one that says check your work or the one that says to read
My glorb hun, wish you had been/ could be my nephews' teacher. You definitely care, and deserve to be in said position.
My class LOVED being the tutor so much
I loved the errand runner and the helping other kids. Also the sit there and read was nice too.
Shoutout to the teacher who yelled at me because I was reading silently after having finished my work, and when I asked what I should be doing instead, told me to just "do the work again". God it's a miracle I made it out of school in one piece
always make sure to check that tutors finished work though! can imagine the horror of them going around showing how they got the wrong answers LOL
The last one fits the most for you for sure.
It’s obvious you’re the last one! I don’t have kids, but I’m so thankful your students have a teacher like you 💜 you’re making a huge difference, trust and believe that!!
I liked the teachers who made me into a deputy tutor honestly. I liked (and still like) explaining stuff and I feel kind it made me understand it better
The last one = my favorite (:
Running errands was my favorite thing to do at school lol.
Samee
I’m in middle school Its still my favorite thing because I have ADHD and not allowed to move in class so doing it makes me feel less twitchie
I was always the tutor, I’d go around helping everyone else
I loved the free time. Most teachers eventually picked up that I just wanted to read my book of the day, and gave me blanket permission to just start reading when I finished work, no need to ask.
I loved the errands, and free time. But also lowkey the extra work. It just made me feel smart lmao.
My teacher is always like either help the students, put your head down, read a book, sit quietly, check your work, do the next problems or unfinished work
I've always LOVED doing errand runs for teachers, im in high school and still get SO excited for the runs. I get to roam around to find places and not get in trouble for it.
The „sit still, do nothing, and don’t interrupt your classmates with your bored presence“ after finishing early, felt always like a punishment. And I did enjoy extra work or starting homework, so I didn’t had to do everything at home while I had the time doing the school day.
As you get older putting your head down is godly in class
I taught 4th/5th grade. They had options, but free time was always their choice! I loved it, not trying to give myself more work by telling them to do more work. They liked their down time and always preferred reading or a quiet game while they waited. They were awesome!
I just love that you know she is always the last one
The sarcastic one 😂
The last two are the best teachers
As someone who had undiagnosed ADHD growing up but was also insanely quick with work, "just put your head down and be quiet" was ACTUAL torture. I can be quiet if I'm allowed to read, draw, write... But to just... Sit there... I am not exaggerating. I have to dissociate to be ok.
I liked being the gopher kid, you get to go for this and go for that but you always felt important helping out
Anakin beating up Clovis sped up is way too good 💀💀💀
Running errands for the teacher was awesome! At least a nice chance to stretch your legs and maybe say hi to a friend in another class
i have had every single one of these teachers lmao
Running errands for teachers is great for two reasons: One, depending on the amount of stuff they asked you to do, it gives you quiet time. Two, it cuts a few minutes if the class is boring, loud, etc.
The “read a book teacher” has left the chat
last one is the best type of teacher out there
Some of these are super necessary (not the sarcastic one) for children who get bored/need stimuli. If I tell some of my students to relax or take a break they’re climbing the walls in minutes.
Don’t forget the
“ double check your answers”
“ are you sure you’re done”
“okkkk if you say you’re done”
All my math teacher says is just to not get on her nerves and that’s pretty much it so you could like walk around and play games on your iPad ( my school uses iPads) and she just lets us walk out of class if we need to use the restroom but one of her number one rules is to not throw up in her class so yeah! :D
Honestly i loved finishing my work early just to run errands for many of my teachers. You are awesome, you bring back so many memories
For the errand running teachers: please write it down!! I loved running errands, but if I got more than 1 instruction, I completely forgot them
😂 that’s fair
I love it when they gave us options
“You finished quick. Did you double check your work?”
You rock Ms. Chang. I wish you were my teacher way back then.
I was always the errand runner .😅
You are awesome.
Honestly who doesn't love free time
The fact you just named 3 of my teachers 😭😂
i literally had all those teachers, the errands running got me laughing. just spot on ahaha
I love the last teacher those where the best times about to graduate bring back them memories
you forgot the: "I know I'm your last lesson of the day, you're free to go if you finished!"
Hearing my name was a jumpscare
getting a break is great
'cause it's very rare to actually get them during school
I used to get breaks during spanish but sometimes I walk up to my teacher and ask questions about words or ask if she needs me to do anything like grabbing papers or smth
I've actually made the executive decision to only use my off hour for schoolwork if it's absolutely necessary because otherwise I'd go crazy with all the work and whatnot
Last one is the best one
I never told people that i was done with my work, I just brought out a book. My teachers always got so annoyed with me. I wouldn't focus in class because I was reading all the time. great memories
I loved the tutor, errand runner and free time parts so much.
I used to finish my work really early in 7th grade honors math. My teacher would loan me books to read. Including 1984!
The whole class tended to finish early, so we ended up finishing the entire curriculum a few weeks early.
He had a couple of old Apple computers in the back (this was mid-90s, so OLD, black screens with green text), so we spent the last couple of weeks of the spring semester learning how to program!
I'm a teacher. I always go with "errand runner" and "free time." :)
Even high school students love running errands!
This is too accurate I'm honestly terrified
honestly having adhd was really difficult when id finish early and have nothing else to do but fidget around, so i'm super grateful for the teachers who'd give me little errands to run or talk to me/engage me with my interests until everyone else had also finished. made me feel useful and less awkward for being a little different. ^_^
The last one and the head lay is the best out of them all
You forgot the “great! Try solving them a different way!” Lmao I’m in high school and my teacher still does this
I loved running errands for teachers, I did it ALOT in high school.
I had the problem of saying “you can play on your computer while everyone else finishes” and in 5 seconds, a bunch of kids got excited saying “we can play on our computers?!” And all the sudden there were papers filled out with all wrong answers and like, two of the kids didn’t even make real numbers just scribbles??? I then said “I have to check your work before you get free time” to “okay we’re just doing this all together”. Life of a sub.
And then there's my middle school teacher "it's too early, you probably went too quickly and made some mistakes, reread it"
The errand, the tutor, and the breaks ones are top tier. Best feeling in the world to have all the other kids look at you in wonderment
Free time after you finish your work teachers >>>>>>>
I was either the tutor or the free time one, but by default usually free time. If the teacher saw though, i usually had to go help some people, but I actually really enjoyed helping 😊
errand running >>>
Were those the names of characters from clue? Or was it just me?
Nah. 100%.
Yes they were
I usually tell em to just chill unless it's a kid who becomes distracting. Then they become my helper
The first one is honestly just every middle school math teacher out there
The errand runner and free time is the fun ones. I also liked when my teacher asked us to help her do stuff
I was the one who had to help the other students. I would finish my creative writing assignments first and then the teacher would say when the rest of the class needed their work proof-read to go to her or me. I never signed up for that.
Then the one teacher that automatically goes:
“You’re not done. No one else has finished today”
As a gifted kid, man I wish I'd had a class like yours. We only visited gifted every few days then went back to our room. I'd love to have been separated!
The clue names omg!! Our highschool is currently doing a production of clue, which I’m in, and that made me irrationally happy
No way. That’s awesome. It’s my all time favorite movie
You make my day MS Chang. You are Awesome MS Chang.❤️❤️
I love the errands that teachers gave me