Letâs face it, we all make typos and misspeak! We just hope that we do it around our significant others or friends, not in class or in an email we send home to parents! Unfortunately, thatâs not always the case. We recently shared funny student typos, but we notice educators are willing to throw themselves under the bus with their own funny teacher typos and misspoken words, too. Weâve shared some of our favorites below, but weâd love to hear yours in the comments.
Public information made âprivateâ
I made a typo Iâll never emotionally recover from.
by inTeachers
âLast week I gave a presentation on the internet. I misspelled a word in âpublic information system.â You can guess what I misspelled.â âSidhlairel
That one time you wish autocorrect worked
âI teach English as a foreign language. During lockdown, my face-to-face classes went online, and the very small ones at 6 years old were accompanied by their parents. So, sharing my screen, and with all the parents watching, Iâm typing in the names of animals as Iâm pronouncing and theyâre repeating. GOAT. HORSE. DUCK. Of course, D is right next to F on a keyboard.â âDishPidge
Proofread!
âPro tip: Proofread all emailsâeven when youâre short on time. It never occurred to me how close the T and the G are on the keyboard until one fateful day. ReGards,â âMrWhiteICT
I think weâve all misspelled this one
âI accidentally wrote activitities on the board once. Thankfully my observation was the next class.â âBamBiffZippo
Beat. Itâs just beat.
âWell I told a class of seniors that âGawain just beat off Lancelotâ once so thereâs that.â âBroiledturnip
Break out rooms, make out rooms ⊠is there a difference?
âI told my online students I was going to put them into âmake out roomsâ (instead of break out rooms). Not one snicker or acknowledgment. I didnât bother correcting myself. They werenât listening anyway. đ€â âlouiseah
Letâs not resort to violence!
âI once told my high school class if they treated my substitute badly again, sheâd take names and Iâd send them to the hospital myself. Then I froze. Mentally I was like âdid I say hospitalâŠor principal???â I was stuck frozen.â âsea_monkeys
Know your audience
âI once told trumpet players to âshake that D.'â âaslottedspoon
Those darn last syllables.
âI had a friend giving a presentation to a high school class and said genital links instead of genetic links.â ânnavotineb
That light works differently!
âOnce when reading to my class I read âflashlightâ as âfleshlightâ and was fortunate enough that nobody noticed.â âReadertheRed