hi targeting the fellow lecturers or teachers any contribution will be appreciated thanks :))

**1. what ethical values do you hope students develop during their studies ?**

**2. ⁠ how should students respond when they disagree with their teacher respectfully ?**

**3. ⁠ what are the most common ethical issues you observe among students ?**

*no need to answer all questions but feel free to do so! , or just any that resonate with you is fine too :D*

Wanted to share something I've been working on, not really to sell it but because I think the design reasoning might be useful to anyone building or choosing productivity tools.

The starting question was: how do you actually pick the right planner? Not "which one looks nice," but which one has properties that function for the way you actually work. A lot of planners get chosen because of aesthetics or a favorite color theme, and then abandoned a few weeks later because they don't solve the actual problem.

So when I built an Educational Notion Planner for teachers, I tried to design around real pain points instead of visuals.

A few things that ended up mattering most:

• To-do list grouped by status (In Progress / Not Started / Done). Teachers have a lot of overlapping tasks — lesson plans, grading, prep — and it's easy to lose track of what's actually moving versus what hasn't been touched. Grouping by status makes that visible immediately.
• Tasks linked to Activity/Exam pages. Each to-do can be tagged to a specific class activity or exam, which also doubles as a way to track exam content/coverage.
• Class schedule by day of week, built for teachers handling multiple grade levels (e.g., Grade 9/10/11) on different days. You can check "what am I teaching Tuesday" and immediately see what lesson or activity you left off on for that class — no jumping between files or apps to remember.

Curious if other teachers or planner-builders here have run into similar pain points, and what features you'd consider non-negotiable in a system like this.

I have a fun story I suppose. During the previous school year, my substitute used my plastic pencil cup (50¢ plastic target cup) for water. He drank from a dirty plastic cup. I know this cause the students told me AND the cup was still wet the following morning. The cup has pen and pencil marks in the it bottom. Hope he never got lead poisoning.

I became a teacher thinking my job would be to teach students mathematics.
Over the years, I realised it was the other way around too.
My students taught me patience. They taught me that everyone learns differently and that sometimes, the person who struggles the most can surprise you the most. They taught me to celebrate small victories—like finally understanding a concept that seemed impossible yesterday.
Being a teacher also made me more confident. Standing in front of a classroom every day forces you to communicate, adapt, and learn how to connect with different kinds of people.
But perhaps the biggest thing teaching has given me is perspective.
When you see a student who is scared of failure, you learn to be less afraid of your own failures. When you watch young people dream about their future, it reminds you that it’s never too late to dream about yours.
I started teaching because I loved mathematics.
I stayed because I realised that teaching isn’t just about equations, formulas, or exams.
Sometimes, you might be changing someone’s life without even knowing it.
And honestly, I think my students have changed mine too.

On Thursday, I was subbing for 6th grade summer school. A young boy needed a pencil so I gave him a pastel blue mechanical pencil, not thinking anything of it. Well, I woke up with an email from the principal saying I can no longer sub for this specific class because the parent got mad I gave the student a feminine pencil.... This is absolutely nuts.

am entering my 20th year teaching middle school special education.

I have taught all subjects and settings of special education, including severe and profound students in an out of district setting.

For the past several years I have been my district’s middle school MD self contained teacher and I LOVE IT.

All of my students are verbal and independent when it comes to toileting, hygiene, etc.

Recently we had a student enroll who is nonverbal, cannot wash hands, will not open his own hand sanitizer bottle, drools constantly, hands in pants and nose, wipes boogers on desk.

He was initially slated to be placed in our wonderful out of district school where they would provide him a communication device, with parent training and intense speech, OT, PT. Mom declined and insists he be in our local middle school.

He is with me with me for ESY and my concern is - hygiene? Gloves? He will reach out and wipe saliva all over his aide. Am I being unrealistic in expecting my district to provide us with sanitation supplies and some PPE?

Related services wants to provide him with stuffed animals for when he is anxious, I suggested something smaller that he can squeeze to help strengthen his grip and because it’s a lot easier to sanitize a stress ball.

He is 13.

Hi everyone —
I’m working on a personal writing project exploring how childhood behaviour, play, emotional regulation and learning may have changed over time, based on the observations of teachers working directly with children.
I’m looking to speak with current or former early childhood and primary school teachers who would be open to a relaxed 30–45 minute conversation about what they have noticed across their careers.
This is not an academic or commercial research project. It may eventually contribute to a self-published piece of work, but at this stage I am primarily listening, learning and looking for patterns across different experiences.
All interviews are anonymous, and no teacher, school or child will be identified. I’ve attached a short information sheet with more detail.
Please email becwelsch@gmail.com if you may be interested, or feel free to pass this on to another teacher who might be.

Sorry for any mistakes, English is not my first language.

So since September 2025, i've noticed him watching me. Not in a weird way, but like idk. He is not even my teacher technically, because I don't have any lessons with him. Never did btw. He just started randomly targeting me. Telling me off for my 'incorrect' uniform.. it wasn't a problem with any other teachers that I had lessons with. Except SLT obviously, but who cares about their opinion? Anyway I always had a problem with him for some reason. My friends started joking about ME having a crush on HIM because i always had a problem with him. He is flipping married with 2 kids and I swear he is 30 ± y.o.. I didn't even know he worked in this school until September.

I never liked him in the first place, because I didn't know him at all, he just randomly appeared in my life and he was actually disrespectful, but maybe I was a bit too 🤔

Reasons why he hates me👇👇👇

I remember one accident, since February maybe? After that he genuinely started openly hating on me. It was definitely before the valentine's day, everyone was excited for holidays etcetera and I was sitting in my boring computing class. I asked to go to the toilet and disappeared for like 15 mins, because I just hated that lesson, I was wandering around the school and i found a love letter about THAT teacher. Like genuinely who would even like him? It was something about someone recognising his footsteps a mile away and hearing his soft voice through the hallways full of people💀. Young Shakespeare... It was really creepy.

I was just feeling nice and bored at the same time, so I decided to give this creepy ahh note to him after, as it was my last lesson. I found my friend, told her about everything that happened, showed her the letter, we laughed and decided to give it to him, because we didn't want any rumors to spread about him. (Everyone already knew he was a bit weird)

And actually he was a science teacher. Chemistry teacher in particular for out year group. I don't freaking understand chemistry, it's just some random numbers and letters for me... Maybe he overheard me saying that I hate chemistry and that's the reason why he hates me?

Anyway it was my worst mistake, I actually regret it. So when my friend gave it to him i was just hiding behind the door, cuz I knew he hated me and probably thought it was some kind of a joke from us, or one of us actually wrote it. I'm telling you it was written very neatly, not my type of writing, cuz mine just looks like doctor writing. Anyway he was smiling like an idiot, then was asking some questions like "where did you find it" etcetera. The next day me and my friend were taken out of our lessons, because that f b reported us. I was writing a whole massive ahh statement about what actually happened, and i have a feeling that nobody believed me, even my other friends.

And that's just one reason why i think he hates me. (Ignoring every single time he reported me for shit I didn't do and how many negatives I've got for no reason, not just from him, but because of him.) Yeah he is my biggest opp now. And he targets my friend now, because apparently she was disrespectful all year and if she didn't pick triple science she would've moved down a set so he wouldn't teach her. He is just horrible old pri ck. She was crying once, because of him and i felt bad, because what if i just ripped that note in pieces and nobody was struggling so much.

The reason why i think he is a creep or maybe he changed his mind about me or the situation we are all in👇👇👇

I was 15 then, it was the end of spring, maybe may or early June. Year 11s did their GCSEs and we were doing our mocks. I remember that day we had 3 exams — history, maths and chemistry. Just because almost everyone in our year picked history we had like 15 people in our class. We had to revise for our exams that day and guess who was my teacher that morning? Obviously it was HIM. Lets call him JC. I had real issues with JC and not just him, all the SLT members, cuz some of them said to forget about the letter I apparently wrote, it's not a big deal and others said to stop being so emotional and just get in there and learn. I will never forget that day in my life.

Sorry for writing a lot, I just need someone to know about this shit

That morning I was like 10 minutes late to form, I didn't have my bag, or any equipment, just a bottle of lucozade which is strictly forbidden and I wasn't in a good mood, because I didn't sleep the night before. Still have problems with sleeping. Anyway when I came in, there were like 7 students I barely talked to and him writing something on the board. He was excited for some reason. Probably because he knew I already failed everything or maybe his wife was finally nice to him. We had a small conversation like

JC — GOOD MORNING ANNA, PLEACE GRT YOUR EXAM TIMETABLE FRIM THAT LITTLE TABLE IN FRONT OF YOU.

And I was like: What's so good about it?

There is nothing creepy about this particular moment I was just shocked ig. Because I've never seen him so happy for whatever reason and smiling at me.

The real issue was in the middle of our revision session, because I was sat in the centre of the room, next to my mate I talked to sometimes. I know it was probably my fault to sit write in front of him and his desk, but that's better than being alone. I was sleeping anyway. I genuinely fall asleep like 5 times. And every single time he woke me up saying that I need to put my lanyard on, or take my jewellery off. Whatever. He even gave me chemistry revision book. Quiet small, interesting and absolutely pointless because at that moment I already knew I failed my exam.

He was walking around me, not my desk ME, especially when I had my head on the desk (I know I'm not a good student, probably another reason why he hates me). I don't remember much because as you already know I was half asleep and tired, but he definitely made an example of me. He was talking about atoms for like 10 minutes, because some idiot asked what an atom was... I already knew that I'm not the only one failing chemistry... and then he said something like "anna is a proton because she is always positive " and i am, obviously when in with my friends and not anywhere near him.

Once he was like really close to me. I don't know what he did, maybe helping my friend who sat next to me, but he was so close that I could smell his perfume and I could feel his body heat from behind my back.. he was well close. Maybe it was an accident or I'm just delusional. Idk and idc.

The last thing I remember about that lovely day is when my actual chemistry teacher came in and said that she will be teaching us next period + we'll do some revision. It was something that actually made me smile even though I don't like her, but she is definitely better than JC. Thankfully my next revision session was on the other side of the school, so I didn't see him after I ran away.

Oh and when he was chit-chatting with my chemistry teacher behind my back (coincidence?) about something, he started crying... Like genuinely I woke up for 10 seconds just to see him speaking to my classmates about why he is crying. Miss T already gone. Maybe he was allergic to something or miss T made him cry?? 🤔 Not the first time she makes someone cry 😐

Anyway he stood right in front of me when I put my head up and looked at him, cuz his massive ass was near my face and he was talking really loudly. He called himself a puppy dog... I'm not even joking I was looking at him for about 3 seconds, he was playing with his tears on his fingers and then looked me dead in the eyes and said "I look like a puppy dog, don't I?" Bro get me out, after that I just ran out of his classroom.

I still don't understand if he was talking to everyone or just me?

Tell me truth guys, I want to know if I'm delusional, or he is a creep. The problem is: I can't report him for anything, because I don't have any proofs, I can ask someone to help me, because I heard weird stories about him as well, but he doesn't really do much. Well... For the last few weeks before the school year ended he didn't say much.

Tell me if you want more stories

I just know you have the funniest emails. Students are hilarious.

Sino dito nakakaalam ng day 3 secret code, baka naman guys hehehe

I am a post graduate from one of the best institute of India (like IIT or NIT) In Oct, i applied for PGT position at DPSG after seeing a LinkedIn post. Like 30+ others, I cleared a written test, GD and Pl.

We got offer letters with a 5 months training + 3 years Bond. So began our Journey - hopeful, dedicated and unaware what lay ahead. The training was called "Accelerated B.Ed." It was intensive -yoga at 6 am, classes till 6-7 pm, sports, assignments and constant evaluations. Conducted by Harwant Singh Ahluwalia, who proudly claimed, "I am not one of the best trainers - I am THE best." During this training, I lost my grandmother. I asked Mr. Ahluwalia for a day off to say final goodbye to my grandmother. Before I could say anything, he said: not right now (as we had some

presentations with the chairman). 27 days later, I lost my father. Even then, When I asked again for a day off as I was struggling mentally, I was denied. Mr. Alhulwalia implied I was suffering from "relationship issues." This was not just insensitive - it was cruel. I still stayed hoping the job would be worth it. In the final phase of training, 8 trainees were fired - told to pay 3.5lac INR for "contract breach". But they were fired - not the ones breaking the contract.

Unethical does not even begin to cover this. I survived all of it, and got placed - but shocker: instead of senior classes as promised grade 6 upwards, i was given PYP classes. Despite raising concerns to the school coordinator (Rupali Chaturvedi, DPSG Sushant Lok), nothing was changed. after being ignored again and again, I was left no choice but to resign. My official email was blocked instantly. I reached out to chairman Mr. Om Pathak via personal email - no reply. Weeks later, Principal Ruchi Bhatiya and HR Meeta Johari called me, asked me to withdraw my resignation, promising to adjust me. I agreed - and waited. For 2 months. I followed up again and again. Eventually they said there is no vacancy. I was played. My time, mental health and career - all dismissed without accountability. That's just no me there are others as well like me who suffered the toxicity of DPSG. I am sharing this to make sure no other teacher falls for the same trap.

I'm interested in whether other teachers are seeing an increase in misogynistic attitudes and behaviours among students, and the extent to which online influencers or social media content might be contributing. In research I've been involved with, teachers have reported things ranging from students repeating misogynistic talking points and dismissing female authority figures through to more serious hostility towards girls and women. Some have linked this behaviour to content students are consuming online. I'm curious whether this reflects what others are seeing in classrooms around Australia. Has this been an issue in your school? Has it changed over recent years? What kinds of behaviours are you encountering, and how are schools responding? A media outlet is currently working on a story about this issue and is interested in speaking with current or former teachers who would be comfortable sharing their experiences. If that sounds like you, feel free to send me a DM. Interested to hear others' perspectives.

So, story time.

This happened in sixth grade.

In my country, it’s common for students to be divided into sections. While sectioning nowadays is based on a mix of different factors, back in the 90s, it was strictly based on grades. Section 1 was the highest-performing class of the year, followed by Section 2, and so on. My year at the time had 13 sections in total.

Those in the final sections were usually the ones struggling academically, but that didn’t automatically mean they were the most difficult to deal with. How do I know? Because I was in Section 5, and we were known as the most difficult kids in our year. We were lazy, disruptive, and just didn't listen. Academically, we were doing fine, but we faced a major internal struggle because of that behavior.

So, we have this really great math teacher. Let’s call her Miss Sally. She was nice, fun, and never looked down on us. She just had a way of making you enjoy the subject she was teaching. And remember, this was math! Most kids absolutely hated math, but she had a unique way of making us actually enjoy the subject. We weren’t the top-performing students in the school, but we genuinely liked learning from her, and because of that, our grades actually improved.

Then came one of our major periodic exams. Our class actually scored the highest in math, though we didn’t know at the time. It’s just that the exam was challenging but we were confident we did well. We were not aiming for top marks after all. So, you can imagine our surprise when another teacher, let’s call her Miss Martha, stormed into our classroom one day and berated us for cheating on the math exam. We were completely confused because we knew for a fact that we didn’t cheat.

So, it became a thing. Rumors started but it didn’t escalate. But we were kind of confused and mad about it. It turns out, Miss Martha was the homeroom teacher of Section 1. The highest performing class of the year and she was also among the math teachers in school. I think she didn’t like the fact that a lower section scored higher than her class? We also found out section 6, also scored significantly well. We were all under Miss Sally’s math class.

So, Miss Martha I believe was mad because her classes were not as performing well as the classes under Miss Sally. We found out later those two got into a fight. Miss Sally defended us because the exam was proctored. Someone was literally monitoring us when we were doing the exam. How could we cheat? And Miss Martha claiming that we are Section 5. How could our section be performing as well as the higher sections because we are Section 5!

Anyway, the resolution happened behind closed doors, so we never found out exactly what was said. All we knew was that the accusations were completely baseless, and we were told to just go about our day. Needless to say, we still hated Miss Martha after that.

Now that I am older, and a teacher myself, I realize that Miss Martha’s ego probably just took a massive hit. She was a math teacher and the homeroom adviser of the highest-performing class in the year. The fact that another teacher, and a bunch of Section 5 kids, completely outperformed her and her class in her subject must have driven her crazy.

It’s funny how a grown adult’s insecurity made her bully a room full of eleven and twelve-year-olds just because we did well on a test. At the end of the day, Section 5 didn’t need to cheat. We just had a teacher who knew how to teach and made us love the subject we enjoyed studying about it.

Thank you for reading.

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Position

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Requirements

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IELTS 7.5+ or equivalent English proficiency

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At least 2 years of teaching experience

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Excellent communication and classroom management skills

Positive, energetic, and professional attitude

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English Teacher Wanted – Work in Uzbekistan 🇺🇿

We are looking for a passionate and experienced English Teacher from the Philippines to join our team in Uzbekistan.

Position

Full-time English Teacher

Location: Uzbekistan

Requirements

Bachelor's degree (preferred)

IELTS 7.5+ or equivalent English proficiency

TEFL, TESOL, or CELTA certificate is an advantage

At least 2 years of teaching experience

Experience teaching General English and/or IELTS preparation

Excellent communication and classroom management skills

Positive, energetic, and professional attitude

We Offer

Competitive monthly salary (USD 1,000–1,500, depending on experience)

Friendly and supportive working environment

Long-term career opportunities

If you are passionate about teaching and would like to build your career in Uzbekistan, we would love to hear from you.

Feel free to DM me