3 things teachers hate about marking

[@MrTocsik]

You missed one of mine, students who write "?" or "I don't know." No kidding you don't know! Rawwwrrr!

[@ItsRobinWhoTalks]

Me in math class tbh xD

[@sillysparrowness]

Yes. I've been wearing dip dyed hair for a year now. Green in the beginning, blue since november.

[@sillysparrowness]

What a lovely random question... Had to look up the english word for Kreppband: masking tape. And sometimes sticky tape as well. Except for the huge cardboard/wall paper "Don't blink" thingy, that's too heavy, so it's nailed to the wall.

[@sillysparrowness]

Just to clear things up: My hair is, in fact, dip dyed blue and, more importantly, I haven't worn a scunchie since the early nineties. I don't own scunchies. Yikes.

[@danielbakamendez]

Shes my teacher and i always thought shes like this :)

[@doctorwhotardis451]

lol

[@ceoofcringe3044]

Danbame Lucky Dx

[@Robfromnorfolk]

At school, forty years back, we all hated our teachers. Now, with your help it is possible to feel sympathy. Thank you for the laughs, they brightened up a long evening in the lobby of aa Polish hotel

[@thisisfoxx]

That ambiguous letter trick is GENIUS

[@markmiller5476]

Although I must say my teachers were great once I found out I had a problem, and any I'll feelings passed quickly, over the proceeding three years I built up so much respect and admiration for them that now I'm studying to be teacher myself. Moral of the story is be kind to kids who struggle with stuff like that, there might be more to it than meets the eye.

[@BarrySmith75]

I really love these videos :)

[@zydicious]

No, the scenes in front of her collage board the tip of her braid is blue. It's the hair itself as it's well below the band holding the braid.

[@AvorNornberg]

When you tell people to make an effort in writing. You seem to forget that those works are often written under time pressure and at the end there has to be a certain amount written to get a good grade. I can tell from from experience that whenever I had to hand in homework I needed double the amount of time to readably copy it.

[@Kalethekill]

That example. I love it.

[@AtWhatCostPodcast]

That evil laugh was the best thing ever.

[@ehkesoyo]

As a student who has been penalised by as much as 10% of the mark in all the exams of certain subjects right off the bat, I have to say, much respect for trying to understand bad handwriting! Also, how can you be sooooo cute!

[@mainagathondu3906]

This is so me! Marking is the WORST part of my career! Hilarious clip #NoMercy! 😂

[@stormclaw7351]

great video! I love it when you talk about school. Being just in the process of doing my Abitur, I can finally start looking at that from an outside perspective :D

[@Joboisahobo]

I have horribly messy handwriting myself but that is due to my dyspraxia. Luckily all through out school I was able to type up any work that was needed and I was even allowed to use a computer in all of my exams. If there are students that always have really bad handwriting, it may make sense to ask them if they could type up their work too .

[@Plottoberry]

I always have to wait too long for your videos but it's always so worth it.

[@mrkv4k]

3:20 That completely reminded me of my Czech language teacher. I made her life pretty difficult, with that writting of mine. She was really great tho, I know that she and another two of her collegues voted over my assay what it actually says, few times...

[@luthienmpl]

Some teachers aren't that much better in that department though. I had to ask several teachers to decrypt their commentaries under my exams for me and my LK History teacher was so bad that saying "I couldn't read what you put down on the blackboard" worked as a valid excuse to not do one's homework. Also, lively discussions between students when we had to take notes from the blackboard during lessons.

[@TheSockemitloch]

I love your collaboration videos with thisissfoxx :)

[@DanielConlon739]

Glad to see another video from you, you never fail to make me laugh

[@JaapZeldenrust]

Writing vertical lines with a goosefeather quill is a pain in the butt, so for words ending in an "n" plurals on "-en" were often abbreviated by placing a horizontal line above the last "n" to indicate a repetition. Other then that, I think most 13th century handwriting is pretty straightforward. The absence of a consistent orthography is a bigger problem.

[@tommgundal3213]

I whole-heartedly enjoy your videos. My only critique is on this show's abrupt increase in volume when the gameshow segment began. My girl was awoken as well as Fat Farrah the lethargic cat. Otherwise I absolutely enjoy your offerings, so much in fact that I find it rather difficult to limit myself to just two per day. Again, I thank you.

[@arscharschdolan3413]

Oh man, I got some good grades in English in Germany but I just got to know speaking to a real guy is "fricking"different! I was "hugging" "fricking" myself :D there is so much possibility to speak to people who talk their own language. so "Hug" everybody who opposes. I'm just learning by my own!

[@Sturmlied]

I have this sudden and very strong urge to visit my old school and tell all my old teachers that I am sorry....

[@TheZombieElmo]

As someone with a horrific hand writing myself (sometimes I can't even read my own notes from yesterday's meeting) I think you're making writing in a nice way sound a bit too easy. While I am certainly able to produce hand writing that looks slightly less appalling this process really takes a lot of time. Time I haven't got in an exam where I have to produce a lot of text quite quickly with cramps in my hand and all.

[@Notquitemad5]

The ending to this video was perfect XDNI love how you don't censor yourself:)

[@roheel02]

I agree, memories of doing French essays and using the same logic

[@LarsOcchionero]

This is why I made most of my essays on a computer. My handwriting is utterly illegible, and have always been, to the enormous frustration of most of my teachers... A little hint to people using computers about footnotes. USE LaTeX! It's a bit hard to learn to use it, however it handles typesetting beautifully, positions footnotes where they should be, and can be used to write even complicated mathematical equations, so your maths and science homework can be writing on computer in stead of hand!

[@girlwithcow]

Oh, this ones great XD But one question: do your students watch your videos? Do they comment on them?

[@PaulWebmasterofDune]

Astrid, thank you for being your funny and quirky self

[@ThrashinYorkie]

Welcome back - You were missed!

[@jm18306]

Here in the US teachers have just given up teaching handwriting beyond second grade. They stopped teaching cursive years ago. Either they recognize that most people communicate today by typing and view hand writing as unnecessary, or more likely they just gave up. -- So, come here: All assignments are typed.

[@langeweilevideosxD]

oooooooh I love your hair :) Especially with those coloured tips!

[@confusingconcoction]

I will have to remember that quote for when I teach! Thanks!

[@MichaelCruzCA]

As a first year teacher, yes. Just...so much yes.

[@ArphenMaethor]

oh and just to tell, i actually made one of my teachers giving up on checking my homework at all so for 4 years i did not do any homework at all and no one noticed...

[@RustyDust101]

The handwriting part reminds me of my middle school science teacher. I admit I have horrible handwriting. He returned my marked homework. He told me in front of the whole class: "I do appreciate your desire of picking up parts of wildlife, but please don't have ants crawling all over your homework before the ink is dry." He handed me my homework: failed due to illegibility. After that I quit cursive and wrote only in printed letters. Still, I quite liked that teacher (humorous British guy).

[@NeverStopMotion123]

My English teacher tends to just write "WHAT??" next to the essay and don't grade the parts she thinks of as illegible...

[@SpaceCasefy]

I have terrible handwriting and find spelling very difficult so I type things because it fixes both! Yay spell check! Also with ADD it is nice to skip around when writing essays or realizing I'm missing like 5 middle words to make my sentences make sense and not have to do tiny carrots above or in the margins.

[@JaapZeldenrust]

My handwriting looks pretty good. It's very regular, and I always use a fountain pen, so the line weight is good too. Doesn't mean it's easy to decypher. My "m", "n" and "u" all look the same, as do my "v" and "r", "z" and "2", "s" and "5", and sometimes "t" and "f". Most of the time it's clear enough from context, though.

[@neongala5]

please make more videos like these! this the kind of great stuff that i subscribed for ^_^

[@CaitlinEvelyn]

oh my goodness, my father is a teacher and i have seen so many of these scenarios play out.

[@RJP0PE1]

I loved the rage crumple

[@DownloadPeace]

Thanks for the help, and I do pride myself on asking random questions :)

[@carsegamariluz]

Oh, god the handwriting one spoke to me on an emotional level, I have the WORST handwriting, but how the hell am I going to make a good legible handwriting if I have to write three pages in just an hour? And, besides, being a left-handed sucks, because of the ink meeting your hand and then the whole page is freaking blue and so is your hand. And I'm very, very sorry for my teachers.

[@meinTraumschloss]

I've always been the girl with the beautiful, accurate "as if you printed it" handwriting. And my teachers always used my essays to show the class "how to do it right"- I found it quite annoying, never realised how happy they must have been while reading it;-)

[@cobalt49]

LaTeX is frustrating as hell to use. I was always envious of the people who could make it work for them. I ended up writing out my equations on paper and scanning them into my documents. That or copy them out from Mathematica.

[@RememberTheTrees]

Agreed. I love it.

[@the0siren0of0night]

Haha!!! My sister has the same trouble. And I am guilty of illegible hand writing myself, but my other sister has the 'neatest' hand writing in the family and I can't read it. I can read my own, but not hers and vice-versa

[@Kaziklu]

I have bad handwriting I felt bad for teachers, it was not ledgible when on tests and exams because it took too long to make it ledgible. But it is what happens when you move many times and you never get taught how to because no school sticks to the same schedule. You have to kind of wing it. Sadly most people don't have that excuse. Now I just print.

[@ajubvj]

Sometimes kids have horrible handwriting because their fingers actually lack the strength to push the pencil around accurately. I was like that in the second grade and spent a lot of time squeezing on a rubber ball: which fixed the problem. Other times it's just a lack of co-ordination which is much harder to work on. There are entire schools of exercise to work on your extra-pyramidal ganglia (large muscle co-ordination) but little for your pinkies (which is handled elsewhere in your brain).

[@GONEmypurpleflapjack]

You could always ask them to type the essays.

[@windpotato]

My teachers have told me for my entire life my handwriting's awful, heh. I can do decently if I've got time, but if I'm rushing out a homework or an essay test, I can't possibly take the time to make everything nice. So, sorry about that, every teacher I've ever written an essay for.

[@rmcbeigh]

The game show bit was brilliant!!!!! how do you feel about printing verses cursive ?

[@markmiller5476]

I have disgraphia and I didn't find out until I was 15, I tried really hard to write well for my teachers but it hallways ended badly. And writing causes my physical pain so I was literally hurting myself for my teachers only to get marked down and yelled at.

[@NickCasey]

Her last line and all of a sudden the weather alarm goes off. It was hilarious, you prolly had to be there though

[@TheCoryKid]

It seems that the solution a lot of teachers have to the problem of illegible handwriting is to force students to type all their work. But then students never have to opportunity to improve their handwriting, because they're almost certainly not going to be doing it on their own time.

[@chanlizzie]

Is the end of your hair dyed Tardis blue? I love it!

[@RobertHeslop]

Oh yeah! I'm going to keep that in mind!

[@weaverssystem]

And, on the other hand, I got a degree where the entire principle of coursework was boiled down to a single exam at the end of the semester. Literally the only grade. Three hour exams. Guess what the method of choice was for questions? Yes, indeed, the essay. I have to say - they did ask for it.

[@TheRabbleChorus]

I am trying to do marking RIGHT THIS MINUTE and ping...up pops the notification about this video so of course now I am distracted and HAVE to watch it!

[@990abbas]

finally a video.. i missed you :)

[@andrewtongue7084]

Which only goes to prove: We are only human - I'm left handed - so deal with that, ha !! ;D (& yes, my handwriting is legible). Thanks for another fun five minutes' worth, Astrid :D

[@Mrmannyguy]

Your videos make my day

[@seanpullen4031]

:-O someone swore. My terrible handwriting always prompted immaturity from my teachers, like loads of exclamation marks, underlining and bubbles. It was very creative of them!!!!!!!!!!

[@hmshark]

This is phenomenal! I love it!

[@HaploidCell]

Of course you are right. To an extend. I have seen samples that were presented to me as "mediocre", but were all but unreadable because of parchment + 700 years + poor scanning technique :D

[@cjashworth]

This made my day. Game show = hilarious.

[@Bammarjackass]

I used to put the odd curse word in my typed essays, just to see how vigiliant my teachers really were in marking. Not a single one ever got picked up!

[@w8fg]

You are awesome! Loving the videos

[@MrAltheArtist]

This is so funny!! I'm afraid i do the first two but luckily my handwriting is okay! Now I will end up possibly changing my ways after this, but our English teacher blames the inconsistency of the English language for your first point, if it isn't a really easy word anyway, haha:)

[@sown1star436]

In my experience, illegibility in handwriting can work for you. I had a teacher at the end of the year tell me the reason I had made 90's and 100's all year was because she couldn't read my cursive. I would like to think at some point a professor picked up one of my essays and just mumbled "Oh what the shit is this".

[@Mipyh]

JUST AWESOME.

[@BadSensation]

That video just made my day!

[@Kalethekill]

The handwriting thing bothers me when teachers get super angry. I had college professor pretty much fail me because my handwriting... I spent forever trying my best to make it neat(it's difficult for me) and it was still not good enough.

[@RobertHeslop]

No I'm worried, I start my first job as a teacher in 2 weeks in a country where their alphabet isn't a Latin-script based language and I'm teaching English resulting in essays ...

[@morganbawtree]

I think she is wearing a blue scrunchie in the marking scenes is that what you are seeing?

[@ThePlasticModeler]

"Bad handwriting can influence the grade" - yups: if I can't read it, it's wrong.

[@ItsRobinWhoTalks]

"I'M GOING TO FUCKING KILL YOU!!!" DAMN, I usually don't pay attention to vulgarity but looking at you as a teacher of younger pupils, this made me laugh out loud!!

[@hempev]

Your handwriting looks very nice - you must have been trying hard for the video.

[@TheDaiDave]

so true.

[@CidVeldoril]

The letter thingy can happen anywhere.Yesterday I was just sitting in my office in Mülheim, Germany, reading an email I just wrote..wait a sec. That doesn't look right. Thankfully I have a blue box shaped thing which is very much bigger on the inside - the "Oxford Dictionary"!Oh wonderful, wonderful dictionary, I will love and hug and praise you forever. :D

[@PoundTheAlrm]

i'll bet you were a great and funny teacher

[@RobbieMelvin]

I'm so sorry about the handwriting. I keep a notebook for myself. I struggle to read my OWN handwriting. It has gotten so much worse in the many years since grade school.

[@mchammer401]

oh my gosh the ending of that illegible handwriting skit made me snort! I'm not a teacher, but I do tutor students who are learning English, and it can be difficult to decipher their writing, especially on top of grammar and spelling mistakes. I give them a break because they are learning the language still, but my high school teachers used to take 10% off the grade, and we would have to hand in another copy as well if it was completely illegible (I know this 'cause of my bad handwriting) :)

[@ericlarosee6390]

I can just imagine my poor teachers all doing this when I had to write in cursive. I still write in pen, which I really shouldn't. Am I a bad person in the eyes of the essay gods?

[@sillysparrowness]

This is a sad story, but: I do so much marking that I know all of my pupil's handwritings in no time! (I get it though, it IS annoying, just not for me.)

[@DracoWolfclaw]

I go through 3-4 "Red Pens of DOOM!" a semester.....sigh

[@todayisokay4075]

I have an exam tomorrow, now I'm self concious and might make any of these mistakes ahhh I'm scared... (I still love your videos though)

[@cobalt49]

I was the person with bad handwriting. This problem has only got worse because now I barely ever have to actually use a pen (thanks internet!) so when I do the result looks like some form of ancient cuneiform.

[@BloggedLifeNina]

grading is one of the things i never wanted to do which is why i don't want to become a teacher. the actual teaching part doesn't seem so bad.

[@MidasStorm]

I agree with everything in this video

[@HaploidCell]

My poor teachers. However, while my handwriting is bad, I always copied from the kids in class with the really aweful, almost code-like hand style. Like, I can read almost ANYthing now. Except for my uni pals who study history. They have mandatory classes in medival handwriting decypherment (no. really.) and they take that out on me. 13th century monks really were taking the piss.

[@gp2k00]

Insertion -- it that like a footnote?

[@MrChief101]

Should be a real game show-- plenty of material to work with for years to come.

[@MyNameHere101]

If you pause at the very end of the video while she's crumpling the paper (hiLAAAARiOOOUUUUS!) and just play, pause, play, pause, you get some very entertaining faces.

[@drekhomie]

oh the teacher I never had

[@NarwhalofConfusion]

omg, she dropped the f-bomb