For the Love of teaching is a podcast brought to you by teachers data, we say teachers hours each week by bringing them quality downloadable teaching resources for their classrooms to make your classroom Buzz go to teach stutter.com Sometimes teaching can be tough but working with students also gives us countless opportunities to smile Joe Dombrowski AKA Mister D is a teacher and comedian who always finds the lighter side in teaching. This is Friday fun. He's with mr. D Hi mister D. Welcome back to Friday fun. He's my favorite Australian Braun. How are you today? What an honor so it's not Kylie Minogue. Oh my God. Yeah. Hello. That was beautiful welds on I guess I guess you're right. You're the second. I'll handle it. I'll handle it. Okay. I love you chose like the gay. Like you were really into your audience. I love it. Do you guys have do you guys have a guy I can let that like I guess Lady Gaga might be the America share. Oh, yes, of course share Lady Gaga Whitney Houston. We have a lot of deeper. Oh, yeah, I will say that. I've been obsessed with Australia for a while because when I was 12 years old, I watch Priscilla Queen of the Desert for the first time and I still obsessed. So hello, what are you writing? Export. Oh my gosh. Okay. Now let's we've been talking about famous performers. And I think you've got a story for me because you've just given me the tagline music concert. So ever do you do music concerts like you do like holiday concert exactly. We have a Christmas. We usually have like a Christmas concert and the children will sing all the Christmas carols and Christmas songs. So we do a lot of the same thing to every I've taught in five different schools and in every school that I've taught in every single grade has their own concert. So it's like well, this is Had great times there and it's in yeah. Yep, there they happen all the time. So when I was teaching fourth grade, I had the concert coming up and I had one kid who was very he's got he was me as a little kid just like very full of energy. It's like all extra perfect. There you go. You're all over the walls. Always trying to get a lap always pretending to fall down like he was mr. Look at me. Look at me look at me and the concert was coming up so I didn't want to single him out. So I get everyone, you know. Very very real talking to about like the professionalism of the Fanta and how you you know, you don't want to steal the Limelight from anybody else and everyone's there to see everybody and their parents are going to be looking at all the kids. You don't want to steal the scene and all of that and he really liked it because I kind of like angled it towards like this is what great performers do and he's like, oh cool, you know, so I thought he had it in the bag we get to the concert. Everything's perfect first song. Right second song great third song great fourth song. He rips off his shirt the buttons just go pop pop pop pop pop. He starts thrashing his head like a hair band metal band from the 80s and start busting out on his air guitar in the middle of the audience and did not spot for the entire song the entire time. Oh my gosh, but what can you do like that kid amazing? What a great confidence child, right? And do member would you remember when we were talking a couple weeks ago about how you don't forget your we always forget student names. Yeah, I will never forget his name because of that because I remember is the concert was done. I said, oh that is so funny. I love it. I just left yeah able to identify with him because you know, sometimes you see something like a little Sparkle something in a student and even though they're doing like the wrong thing you just think it's so interesting. Earring because you like I never want to crush that spirit. I know and that's the thing too. Like I as a teacher always my favorite ones were always the weird ones the wacky ones. The one that nobody can figure out like those are the students who I connected with the most and Connor for sure was one of those kids. Yes. I am. I reckon that's the same with me like some of my more. Yeah challenging students that I found like, oh my sometimes I want to rip my hair out with them, but there was so endearing to me and I just yeah, I'll never forget them because they're just there. If they've got a quark there's something there different from the crowd. So yeah. Yeah. Yeah extra be Connor be the weird. What do you say erase? Your weird green grapes here. We are baby. There it is. That was a perfect lat. Good job. Thanks for coming in today to join me on Friday Funnies. I'll see you next week. Thank you. Happy Friday everybody. Thanks for joining us for Friday Funnies. Don't forget to subscribe to For the Love of teaching on your favorite podcast app to get updates on all the latest episodes.
Ever had a kid in your class who takes any opportunity to be extra? Maybe it's big spirit fingers in the choir, perhaps it's an unplanned concern soloist, or just a really enthusiastic dancer in the play. Mr D had a student in the end of year concert who stole the show, and Mr D was nothing less than impressed!Mr D is coming to Australia! Check out ticket info and dates on Mr D's website so you don't miss out!He's a teacher. He's a comedian. He's officially one of Ellen Degeneres's "favourites". Joe (Mr D) Dombrowski is here to brighten up your week with his infectious laugh and hilarious stories. Brace yourself, because when it comes to dishing the dirt on teaching, kids and life in general, Joe doesn't hold back.Join us in our new For the Love of Teaching Facebook group, where we chat about the podcast, feature live vids of guests, and talk teaching!Don't miss an episode! Have you subscribed to For the Love of Teaching? Don't forget! It means you'll be the first to know whenever a new episode is released.For the Love of Teaching is a podcast by Teach Starter. We make quality, downloadable teaching resources that save teachers hours of time and make their classrooms buzz! See you next week for another dose of Friday Funnies! 