ESL Teaching

A "job" that many grifters, low-lifes, simpletons and garden variety retards do while living abroad as an expat. Many, if not all, of those that are currently teaching ESL have failed astronomically in their home country. This includes financially owning themselves by getting one of the many useless degrees offered by today's university. An incompetence to use any job-hunting website. It also includes burning a variety of bridges with all of their friends, associates and family members. And finally, it includes a general sense of running from all responsibility due to a severe case of arrested development.

Ironically, many of their students, ESL Speakers, are trying to have a better life, work hard and take life head on.

Blue-haired coffee shop barista: I double majored in English Creative Writing with an emphasis on poetry, and general Philosophy, and I've had it. I've been working here for 6 long years. Too long, too long. Next week, I'm moving for an ESL Teaching job abroad for $800/month. It's GOOD money, and allows me to save each month to pay off my $120,000 of student debt.
Engineer, former friend: That's great.

by Former Expat October 14, 2022

Anti-teaching

The form of teaching that does the opposite of normal teaching. Makes you more dumb instead of smart.

That teacher has perfected the form of anti-teaching with how bad they teach.

by Biggest man October 3, 2023

Curtain Twitching

When tweakers are looking out the window

Darcy was so tweaked out of her mind she couldn't stop curtain twitching

by Lydia916 April 5, 2024

Anti-teaching

A teaching method in which one demonstrates a negative example so as to persuade people into living the opposite way

SNL's "Matt Foley" uses overly physical anti-teaching so that the teenage characters would make a vow to never smoke pot ever again in their lives

by o23gfh December 6, 2024

reverse/hypocritical teaching

Refers to where a schoolteacher requests his students to tell him the answer to a English/history question, math problem, etc. ("Now --- who can tell me what the answer is in this case?", or "I want you to fill in the blank on your page there, to tell me what the answer is")... not only does this strange behavior indicate that the teacher is apparently not qualified for his job, since **he** seemingly doesn't even know the answer himself (plus maybe the question is even too difficult/advanced for his students, if even he --- as an "educated grownup" --- doesn't even seem to know the answer; perhaps he should therefore not even be asking this excessively-advanced question of his much-younger/less-learned students), but it also directly flies in the face of his otherwise strict policy of never answering a question that a student asks **him** about a particular example on a test, but instead insisting that the student laboriously toil to find out the answer for himself.

Disgruntled second-grade student: I wish they'd let us have a better-informed teacher --- she expects US to supply HER with knowledge many times every day, rather than HER teaching US, the way she's supposed to! Talk about reverse/hypocritical teaching --- where'd SHE ever get her teacher's certification, anyway, if she's THAT dumb and uneducated?!??

by QuacksO February 17, 2017

an attempt at teaching

most substitute teachers

wow that was a fun an attempt at teaching

by sun tzu_closerelativeofgenghis December 23, 2021

In my 20 years of teaching.

If you ever hear your teacher preface a speech with this sentence. You done fucked up. It is over. You are finished and will never see the light of day again. The heinous crime you have committed by blasting loud Indian music while the substitute was teaching would have catched up to you eventually. Now you must run hide and maybe even hide.

In my 20 years of teaching. I have never seen a more disrespectful class.

by Diggy Bick March 9, 2023