#taposting

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I told my students they're allowed to be creative and don't have to be factual when writing about themselves in German because I keep getting questions like "what if I don't have roommates or what if I don't have hobbies" and I'm like guys just make something up! Have fun! I won't fact check you!

So now I am grading homework where a student is claiming to be from North Korea and his hobby is tax fraud

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one time my supervisor wanted me to find a metaphor for what teaching is like for me and I said that I feel like a hospital clown - like I'm making a fool out of myself but for a good cause. and she thought it was the most ridiculous thing she ever heard and kept laughing about it and I was like. dead serious. because I remembered how instrumental hospital clowns were to my well-being when I was hospitalized as a child.

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my students keep using AI to do their language homework and I don't know how to explain to them that they should care more about actually learning the language than making mistakes

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there is a 1 vowel difference in German between feeding and eating something so I'm using my mum's very funny slip of the tongue as an example in class now

"grandma ate squirrels" vs "grandma fed squirrels"

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one of my PowerPoint slides is just German pronouns and neopronouns. I'm the Republican nightmare.

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Inserted our class mascot into my first class presentation

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teaching my German students only the most important things like "die gerade Linie ist gottlos und unmoralisch" (straight lines are godless and immoral)

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my students have to compare two celebrities they know and it really seems like they're dissing them it's so fun to read.