The Weirdest Attention Getters Teachers Have Used in Class
Teachers Off Duty
Bored Teachers
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🗓️ 8 March 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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They also get real about the teaching grind: ADHD teacher life, why "I'll wait" doesn't always hit, building relationships before management can work, and how admin can make or break a school. Plus: tour life updates and why you need a laugh break ASAP.
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| 0:00.0 | Do you use attention getters? |
| 0:02.0 | Yeah. Mine are a bit ghetto. Like songs, like calling responses to all be like, this ain't Texas. And they were like, woo. Oh. Yo, that had a choke cold on my school. Everybody, water falls. Nothing I learned in college as far as like classroom management and things. Like it did not work. And you actually went to school for education. Me and you were both alternate route. I would have to write, like, 20 to 25 pages of lesson plays. To do what with? Well, I was student teaching at the time. Oh, my gosh, we don't have that much class time. Sometimes I'll play dad. The kindergartners love it. Oh no. Dementstration. |
| 0:38.3 | Boom, little depth drop. |
| 0:39.3 | And they get my death drop. |
| 0:40.3 | B, B, B, B, B, B, B, O L. |
| 0:42.3 | Shut up, no. |
| 0:43.3 | I just got real frustrated one day if they weren't listening to me. |
| 0:45.3 | I just walked up and started talking to the filing cabinet. |
| 0:47.3 | Spell of tea. |
| 0:48.3 | I love you. |
| 0:49.3 | I'm like, Miss Rich, can you hold this? |
| 0:51.3 | Yeah. Especially if it's a phone, mm-mm. The phone's nowadays too expensive. |
| 0:55.4 | Your phone, nice and in their mind. |
| 0:56.3 | They have to find my phone in the classroom. |
| 0:57.7 | Sometimes I was like, everybody's up. |
| 0:58.7 | Yes. |
| 0:59.3 | I was so fed up. |
| 1:00.7 | I quit up. |
| 1:00.7 | I quit. |
| 1:01.2 | I quit. |
| 1:01.3 | What was going on? Hey, best friends, welcome to this week's episode of Teachers Off Duty. |
| 1:20.4 | If you're new here, I am Brie, aka Honest Teacher Vibs, and I, for the third week in a row am joined by some |
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