Teachers Share The Most Embarrassing Thing They've Said Or Done In Class.

#1

Her nose was super clogged from a head cold, and she hate blowing my nose in front of her students.She has a closet in the back of the room that she could use to escape to release some of the pressure. At home, she and her husband joke that when I blow my nose it feels like parts of my brain are coming out too from all the pressure release.

One thing lead to another, and I casually mentioned I was heading to the closet to "blow my brains out". The students were understandably concerned.

#2

2.One teacher shared; As a camp counselor I was kind of absentminded when the kids were telling me stories one day. One told me that he had fainted once from heat stroke. While listening I was thinking out loud and said, "what if you actually died that day and we're all actually just waiting in purgatory?"

There was an awkward silence and the boy said, "Ms. Mae, I don't like that."

3.Another shared "I had a group of lazy AP kids a few years ago and at progress report time, about 2/3 were failing. I read them the riot act explaining that I wouldn't round up their grades at the end of the quarter to a D- just so they'd pass. I kept saying, "I'm not going to just give you the D, you need to earn the D". The kids held out the first two times I said it, but the third they started giggling and I heard it and we all laughed to the point of crying."

#3

4.A professor at a university, let his class go 30 minutes early because he felt a huge fart coming.

5. A teacher stated;Recently I said "penis" instead of "pieces" while reading Of Mice and Men aloud to a class of 9th grade boys. I work at a Catholic school.

One kid's response was simply, "Niiiiice."

#4

6.Teacher had a smartboard. Was teaching lesson, finished, sat down. Forgot his computer was still hooked up and went to his email, opened a chat, and began to ask whoever it was for ' another hole picture.'

He got fired two years later for something else.

7. A teacher confessed: Not so much embarrassing as confusing and concerning, but while I was student teaching last semester I was on the sidelines as the students were doing a quiz or something and accidentally said the 'f-word' under my breath. A student who was walking by heard me so I started apologizing profusely, to which they responded "That's okay. That's not even the worst thing I've heard you say." I have no idea what I said and they would not give me any other details. I still think about it sometimes.

#5

A teacher was showing a class of 8th graders how to make something out of clay and as he was demonstrating he said, "Now slap your balls back and forth in your hands."

It did turn his face red.

Another teacher expressed his distress: Most of my embarrassing moments happen when I'm teaching P.E. because I never catch potential sexual innuendos ahead of time while I am teaching.

"Ok, now everyone grab your two balls and hang onto them"

"If you don't put it in right now you are out of the game"

"You can swallow it or spit it out, your choice" (gum)

And on and on. I usually only notice when the class starts giggling, and then I have to pretend that I don't know why they are.

#6

Something somewhat similar, but incredibly smoothly handled happened during the first lecture on economics at University.

Prof stood on the little stage thing in the huge 1500 ppl. auditorium. All went well, but after like half the class there is a large popup on his presentation, some kind of apple play or bluetooth pairing thingy, that says:

"Bombshell69 wants to connect"

Many people start laughing.

Prof looks bewildered for a second, hits decline, disables something in the settings, then looks up, smiles, and says "maybe we should connect after the lecture."

Brief academic applause from the whole room follows

A Teacher shared First day of school's experience; "In my first year teaching, I was sitting on a desk and going over the syllabus. The desk tipped out from under me, resulting in me falling off. I teach high school theater and since it was the first day of class, the kids were dead silent. So I said, "guys.. Laugh! That was hysterical!" and they burst into laughter. What a way to break the ice."

#7

A teacher Was reading a story about the Victorian era where the word "corset" was used. Kids didn't know what that was, so she trotted over to the LED projector hooked to her laptop and googled "corset."

Yeah her mind was in the Victorian era, but Google was in Victoria's Secret. All those images--many of them with full nips showing--just got blown up across the wall of her classroom. And that's when the principal walked in for my quarterly evaluation.

A fourth grade teacher says that before winter break her class was making ornaments to take home. They were simple glass balls that they filled with paint. They were starting to clean up and a few boys were still working on the ornaments on the other side of the room. She yelled over to them "get your balls over here right now!" As soon as she said it she realized her mistake.

#8

A teacher shared a hilariously awkward moment: "I had just begun class, freshman comp at a community college, and was going over what the day's plan was. A student walked in a few minutes late, sat down, and pulled out his computer. Upon opening the computer, very loud moaning sounds of porn emanated into the room for approximately three seconds. Once he got it to stop, he shakily said, "I'm sorry."

I stood at the podium and said um and uh a couple of times and then, "Give me just a minute, guys." I sat stood there looking down at the podium, trying to collect my thoughts as calmly as humanly possible, so I could continue class like nothing happened. After around 15 seconds of pure and uncomfortable silence, a kid from the back of the room let out a two-syllable, guttural chuckle.

I lowered my head to behind the podium with my hands still clasping onto it above my head as I bent over and LOST MY SHIT. I laughed hysterically and uncontrollably for at least 30 to 45 seconds, emulating Stewie's ridiculous laugh from that episode of Family Guy but with far more wheezing and high-pitched squealing. The entire class started laughing with me as soon as I started"