I love this video so much. I am a junior in college and trying to figure out what grade to teach. Thank you for some insight on middle school. These kids are lucky to have a teacher with such passion for it.

I’ve always said I either want to teach 4th/5th grade or middle school. Some of my favorite teachers were my middle school teachers. I prefer the content in that age group more than high school or lower elementary (language arts).

Yes to being able to have your fandoms! I tell them everyone is a nerd about something! I find my middle schoolers are the best combo of the innocence of elementary schoolers and confidence of high schoolers. Plus, they know how to hack the district’s wifi!

I was obsessed with Lisa Frank in middle school!

I HOPE I HAVE TEACHER'S LIKE YOU IN MIDDLE SCHOOL ❤️

I honestly liked middle school. Lol. Especially my English classes. I made all A's. I also had came back from a Summer of reading books and nothing else. It drastically improved my grades.

I’ve taught 7-12th grade and I can totally relate. I’m back at the high school level and love it, but middle school gets a bad rap. The kids are so sweet and genuinely like their teachers. High schoolers can too, but they make you work for it a little more. 😂 As long as YOU love your students, that is the right grade to teach.

I’m substituting in the middle school and love your ideas. Your perspective of empowering kids are great! Your students are so lucky to have you as their teacher, you are an amazing teacher.

I am A middle schooler and I get obsessed with a lot of random things, I am really funny, I think. The quote thing happens a lot in my school. I would love you as a middle school teacher. I feel like you would be a great teacher for my school. Love your channel. I really want to be a teacher when I grow up and you are really inspiring.

I’m in 8th grade and it’s so cool to see teachers like this. I thought only elementary teachers are like this and I love to see teachers so excited to teach

You're awesome- listening to you really takes me back to Middle School! Thanks for sharing the perspectives

We just moved to CA and I am trying to decide if I will go back into middle school or move on to high school like I always planned... but this just reminded me of all the reasons I had so much fun with my sixth graders. Fangirling was something my students and I did on the reg!

Thank you for this video! I love teaching middle school! There are some things I don’t like, but every job has room for improvement! Hanks for the positive light on our kids!

I'm going to school right now to teach 1st through 8th grade (I hope to be a middle school teacher) and these types of videos you make get me so excited!

It’s great teaching an age that are able to see things from someone else’s point of view like you mentioned. My perfect age group is 9/10 year olds, but at the moment I’m challenging myself by working with younger (7) of course every class has its own vibe anyway! Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I love the pastel colour scheme of your room. I bet the kids appreciate having an inspiring work environment!

Great video!! I can tell you’re a fantastic teacher. Your students are so lucky to have you. I absolutely hated middle school when I was in it, because I felt so awkward and self-conscious and confused. When my own kids got to be middle school age, I was shocked by how cute and funny they and their friends were! Now I’ve starred substitute teaching and I’m considering becoming a full-time teacher. I’ve only substituted at one middle school class so far, but I was surprised by how much more I enjoyed it than the elementary class I substituted for. Middle schoolers have this awkwardness and lingering innocence about them that is just so stinkin’ adorable and hilarious! It can be a difficult age for a lot of kids, especially girls, so I think teachers have so much opportunity to have a positive impact.

Thank you for this! I’m starting as a middle school English teacher this year, and I was looking for some words of encouragement❤️ Super scared AND excited!!

You make a compelling point to move to middle school! I love my elementary littles and how goofy they are, but I really love how funny my 5th graders get right before they leave me! I get so sad that most of my K-5 kids don't understand my sarcasm!

Everything you said is true! Love, love, love being a middle school teacher!

I needed this tonight! I am new to the middle school scene this year and am feeling overwhelmed after 2 weeks. Tell me it gets better! :-)

LOVED THIS VIDEO! I am a senior STEM education/ Math major and when I graduate my certification will be Math 4-8 and almost daily I get asked “Bless your heart... but why middle school?” You hit the nail on the head! Middle Schoolers are at such a unique and interesting point in critical thinking development, and their sense of humor is everything!

Yay! Thank you for this. I will be certified to teach 6-12 in a couple semesters and whenever I tell people that I'll be teaching middle school or high school, I always hear such negative responses about middle schoolers (high schoolers too, but more middle school). It bums me out and sometimes makes me second guess my soon to be career! Heading over to watch Christina's now!

I’ve always wanted to teach middle school. Getting my Masters in Secondary education to teach Middle School humanities. I can’t wait! So glad I found your KZfaq channel!!

I watched you planning on your EC planner and then stumbled onto this video. I teach middle school as well and couldn’t have agreed more on what I love best about my kids too

You’re awesome! Your middle school students are lucky to have a cool teacher like you. I work with HS students and it’s definitely a different experience. Thanks for sharing.

Point 5 is so on point!!

I'm sharing this with my other secondary teacher friends. :) You managed to voice what I remind myself of every morning.

The fights are the best though, I laughed my ass off of one I remembered a long time ago

your classroom is so cute and organized!

I️ taught middle school 8 years then switched to PreK for 3 years, and now 3rd. I’m planning to go back to middle school next year!

Thank you for this

I have been a Middle/Junior High School Paraprofessional for 8 years, and even though I want to teach Elementary Education (side note: I finish my Master's in 11 days! Yay! 😀), I have built a positive rapport with students in middle school! 😀 Thank you for your continued inspiration and encouragement! 😀

Thank you so much for this. I just accepted a job to become a 1st year middle school French teacher, and I made the mistake of checking comments from teachers online, and they all said "DON'T DO IT". It made me so nervous. It's good to see that there are positive points of view out there!

Thank you. I needed this. The last 3 weeks of school have been the hardest since school started this year. (nowhere near last year--my first year--though.) I've been feeling like my 8th graders were gunna kill me--litteraly sat down on the floor mid lesson because I was just done and over the behavior. Your school and my school sound like night and day environment wise, but the stuff about the kids was very good to hear.

I love this ! Simply because I'm gonna be teaching 5th-13th grade and I LOVE the differences. Granted, 7th and 8th graders can be scary but I like how you're able to witness the differences in grade forms and how kids become teenagers which then become young adults. I love it. Each grade has their own pros and cons.

Thank you I needed that

You should do a video on advice for people who want to become a middle school teacher/advice for new teachers. I work as a teacher assistant in a middle school and I’m working on getting my teaching license. I would love to teach middle school level language arts. Before I got this job I was very nervous about working with middle schoolers because I would always hear the worst. Since working in one and getting to know the kids, I absolutely love it! I am open to working in other grade levels but this is definitely my favorite! One thing I really like is most of them really like to help out even if it’s something small like straightening up the room, passing out papers. All the points you made are very accurate. Most of the kids have a lot of passion about things and it makes them so happy when they get to express that in what they learn. I also see at least half a dozen of my students every single day even when their class isn’t that day, and every single time they say “Hi/good morning miss *my last name! How are you” or if they’re too far away they always smile and wave. In most of the classes especially the larger ones, there’s at least a few students who always ask when he or she isn’t working if I or the main teacher need any help. And when I do give him or her something to do the kid (and often a few classmates they get to volunteer as well) do awesome. Some kids who get to class early or come in during their lunch period when they’ve eaten will just find something to do like fix the chairs without being asked and it’s great because one class currently has 58 kids! That means lots of chaos so being organized is crucial for any hope of being productive

Middle school is where it's at. Props for making this!

You're my favorite Teacher KZfaqr 😊

Love this video! Your hair looks great by the way!

I know that this is an older video, but let me just say, teachers like you are the reason why I’m excited to enter sixth grade (ahhh, middle school!) this coming August. Throughout causing myself and family extraneous stress with entering and entirely different school and social environment, it’s a comfort knowing that encouraging staff, like yourself, are truly committed to what we get out of those dreadfully awkward three years! P. S., I screamed when you mentioned Hamilton. Gosh, I love that musical!

I loved this

Love this! Someone has to teach them. Better to have teachers that actually care about them than teachers who would rather be somewhere else. I'm in Australia and I am primary (elementary) trained but have taught junior high (grade 7 to 10) for over 10 years. I often get comments from other teachers that year 9 is a waste of a year. These same teachers complain when they get kids in year 11 and don't know as much as they think they should. I feel like saying "how about you take a few classes and teach them properly then" I agree with everything you said. There is so much to love about these year levels despite the challenge they bring. On a side note, I feel like teaching year 9 Maths on a Friday, last period is the extreme sport of teaching. Hahaha!

im so going to do the quote wall thing :D

I’m about to start teaching 6th grade language arts, which is a change since I’ve been an itinerant teacher for the past 8 years. I’m so excited. Last year I had a 6th graders say, “I like this character because he has plot security! There is no way the author would kill him off!” I thought it was such a cleaver insight and so succinctly stated from a young mind!!

This is inspiring! Thank you. I teach sixth grade and love it. You can see our classroom in action making math movies on my channel doing Breakoutedu math adventures. I've never seen students work so hard in all my 15 years teaching- especially middle school aged students!

love this video. I am laughing at the "I teach middle school" response you get because I am starting to realize that may be the response every teacher gets no matter what grade we teach LOL. ALSOOOOOOO I LOVEEEE that you love Mimi she is my all time favorite!!! Alsooooo I love that you both are telling people the amazing things about middle schoolers to help erase any negative stigma. Alsooooo props to you for teaching middle school because I think middle school teachers are magical people with magical fairy super powers! Thats all :)

this was helpful! I’m currently doing my teacher observations & I never thought about observing a middle school, but this opened my eyes (: I would think it’s a lot to teach about 6 period classes a day

That's exactly the reason why I love teaching freshmen! They are so funny and not that serious yet.

I have a year 8 class (8th grade) and can relate to what you're saying. (In Australia high school is 7th-12th grade) great video 👍🏼💖

My major currently is for middle school mathematics (I switched for a few reasons...one of them being that I spend a year less here in college...) and all of the staff (like my advisor) for the school of education here at my college are thrilled about it. I think I'm one of a handful in my year doing middle grades education.

They say middle school throws you steps on u and then spits on u I’m going to middle so I’m TERRIFIED! Ugh!!!

Kudos to you! I hate middle school and would never be able to teach there

Please make a video about your clubs. That would be great.

Ok i just saw this video and your energy makes me wanna go back to school to be a teacher. Btw the human rights club thats a awesome idea :)

I soo relate!!! I sub sometime at elememtry school, but I easily get board. With the high schoolers they seem "so serious". But middle school make me laugh, smile. And give me suggestions on what color I should buy my next wig..lol

Hamilton that is what got me

I love teaching middle school, my husband taught and coached high school for years and always thought I was crazy.

I'm gonna subscribe... just a vibe. Can't wait to watch more videos. I'm thinking to be a 7tg grade teacher... maybe English/language arts. I feel like it's my sweet spot for age group.

God Bless you for teaching AND enjoying middle school! I taught MS for 6 years and I prefer teaching high school 100 times more . BUT, I really hate teaching Freshman/9th graders - it may be even worse than teaching 7th or 8th graders. Seniors and Juniors are my sweet spot ... Thanks for the great content!

Teacher: I love middle school Me: ESKAAAA SKSKSKSKSK turtlesss scrunchieesss

When I accepted my current job I was a bit scared because I never taught middle school, but to be honest I am so happy I am teaching it. It's true what you said that you can start to see their personalities form and how its interesting to see them make their friends. When I have to do 7th grade dismissal the girls always hug their friends when they are leaving and I think that is so cute. I also have many girls that are "fan girls" lol when I told one of my classes that I love all things Hello Kitty, Little Mermaid, and Kawaii most of my students were so excited and ever since that I have two girls that come to my classroom every morning and give me a hug and tell me how nice my hair or outfit looks. I've been told that as long as you relate to the students they will warm up to you and that is so true. I'm loving middle school and plan on staying in it :).

I get the same response when I tell people that I teach middle school. In fact, I will be retiring at the end of the year from middle school.

I graduated middle school this month.

We don't have separate middle schools in Australia. Some P-12 schools have a junior, middle and senior sections, but not separate campuses. I taught Yr5 in a "middle section" and my Year 5's were amazing. I teach Year 3 and 4 now, and what you say about your middle schoolers is exactly how I feel about my school babies. They are funny and smart and self-motivated and problem-solvers. They haven't gotten inappropriately sassy yet, and I adore them. So far they're my favourite year level. I would happily be a Year 3/4 specialist for the rest of my life...but that's not going to happen. Truly, I'll love whomever gets put in front of me, but 3/4's are amazing.

Oh dear! I've totally done that, assigning the wrong page for homework! Hahaha

this just reemphasizes the fact that i want to be a middle school teacher! :) im 25 lmao

Hay quá

I am a middle school teacher!

i am going to show this to my ss teacher

messy messy desk??! lol no way

Would you ever go back to high school? My degree is 6-12 and I'm torn between which lever I'd rather teach

I’m going into 8th grade

Where do you teach? Charter, public, or private school?

I got in trouble on the first day of school with my US history teacher and my athletics coach came to class, and sat next to me the next day..... 🤦‍♀️ 😂 My athletics coaches treat us athletes like their own kids and tolerate nothing from us. The thing is I didn’t even do anything that serious.... these 2 kids wouldn’t let me see the paper in a GROUP project so I didn’t get to do anything besides a maze paper (I’m in 8th grade) and she started yelling at me about getting a zero and giving all of my other group partners a 100, and I got a little.... frustrated. Then she emailed my coach about my “unacceptable and completely utter” behavior.

Hi, My name is Aisha I’m currently getting my masters in education and I’m struggling with picking what grade to teach how did you choose between secondary and elementary?

Can you make a video on Middle School teacher struggles? Teachlikeagirl has no videos, hmm

Do you ever deal eith physical fights among middle schoolers?

you definitely nailed one thing!! middle schoolers never see the negative side and never take no as an answer

Could you do a video about if you middle school teacgers can tell if we are on there period and is it weird when girls ask for pads and tampons

Honestly I don't like my first period teacher he can't operate a simple laptop or celluar device he says figure it out yourself if we're stuck on something like we learned this last year. I'm calling you out Mr. M

she probably teaches at an A school

Me too! 7th grade especially. I have an ELA resources website: ELAHwy.com

Problem solve abstract problem solve

I would honestly never teach middle school. Ever. I would rather be poor, starving and homeless than deal with the vicious little brats they can be at that age-i have not a single happy memory of middle school because of how people treated me so i have zero patience or tolerance for the behavior middle schoolers display towards eachother. Bully someone, you will wish you never met me, and bullying is very common in middle school-and i don’t look good in orange, so i think i’ll stay away from them if i can so i don’t end up smacking someone upside the head for being a bully

Oh dear g o d Good thing you aren’t a substitute-

It's certainly awesome being young and beautiful. But, what if you're a 50-year-old male career changer? My guess is things are different insofar as ageism in hiring, and other factors.

If you to cool for middle school why are you teacher

“Teach like a girl” lol how can you not? When teachers in elementary through middle school is predominantly women by and large. There’s a huge lack of male teachers. We have all this push for women in all these male dominated fields but absolutely no push for getting more men in these fields. I can’t stand to hear teachers that are so partial to females when boys are struggling. Dressember, fangirling, Ariana grande, mostly everything you said was favoritism of girls. Sorry to rant, I appreciate your insight but more teachers need to be aware of the discrepancy.

I teach in a primary school in Australia, but in our area we go up to Grade 7, I absolutely love my Grade 7s ❤️ There is something awesome about 12 year olds, I think they're adorable hahaha