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Teachers Off Duty

Funniest Teaching Hacks You Didn't Know Were Legal

Teachers Off Duty

Bored Teachers

Comedy, Stand-up

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Desperate times in the classroom call for genius teacher hacks—and we've got 'em all.

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In this laugh-out-loud episode of Teachers Off Duty, Bri, Anna, and Jay reunite for a chaotic and hilariously honest conversation about classroom management, teaching burnout, and surviving the school year with a little creativity (and a lot of humor). From Jay's "girl dad" life to Anna's desk-climbing Dead Poets Society moment, the trio shares the genius hacks and hilarious fails that keep their classrooms (and sanity) intact. Whether it's using UNO cards to track participation or rage-screaming with students as a brain break, this episode is packed with real-life strategies that actually work—plus a few that didn't.

 

They dive into how AI tools like ChatGPT are changing the game for both teachers and students, and how they're learning to work smarter not harder by embracing technology without losing the heart of teaching. You'll hear them swap stories about student manipulation, mystery shopper behavior systems, the power of handwritten work in a tech-heavy world, and what happens when a student can't read their own handwriting. It's the real teacher talk you didn't know you needed.

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Teachers Off Duty - A Bored Teachers©️ Podcast

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0:00.0

I'm like nervous. I'm like guys have you ever gone on top of your desk and

0:06.0

get to get a kid's attention? Okay I have. You climbed on top of this?

0:10.0

You've like a what for a Dead Poets Society moment?

0:12.0

Yeah I talked about Dead Poets Society on it. I'm obsessed with that movie.

0:16.0

That's why she climbed in the...

0:17.0

But it wasn't cute and like happy about it. It was like, I'm raging angry.

0:21.6

I never said what it was that I was given a point because they had to learn like and watch,

0:26.6

okay, what's a positive thing where we're going to get a point?

0:28.6

What's a negative thing that she's going to get a point?

0:30.6

Yeah.

0:31.6

And if they beat me that day, they got to pick out one song at the end of class.

0:34.6

We would end class three minutes early.

0:36.6

We would jam out to a song. Trap music. Well, it had to be clean. This is one of the things that nobody taught me on

0:41.1

I first started teaching that you don't have to grade everything. I was great in every single thing

0:44.9

that they do, but I want them to have the freedom to like try. I'm going to be like, I'm just going to fail anyway.

0:50.3

The bar was low. Yeah, they were like, she never called security. She must be amazing. The house do not know me or you're new here, I am honest teacher vibes. And I am joined by two lovely people. Hello, everybody. I am one of those lovely people. I'm Anna Cobal, aka Readaway with Ms. Kay,

1:29.5

and... Jay Yoder here, Jay Yoder Comedy. I am excited to be back.

1:33.7

You're so excited. You just stuck with the ladies. I, you know, I've lived my whole life

1:37.8

with all ladies. My whole life has been all ladies. You can't run away from it. It's a little man. For me, it's normal. Yeah, I love it. He's like, this is my life.

1:44.5

I'm a girl dad.

1:45.1

At work, you're surrounded by ladies, most likely, because we're all teachers.

1:48.7

We're teachers of a female-dominated profession.

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