Episode 74: Biggest Mistakes We Have Made In Our Time Teaching

Every teacher has those moments — the lessons that crashed, the behaviour calls that backfired, the emails we wish we’d rewritten, and the days we walked out thinking, “Well… that didn’t go to plan.”

In this episode, we dive into our biggest teaching fails from across our careers. Not to relive the embarrassment, but to unpack the lessons, the growth, and the surprising moments of clarity those fails gave us.

We explore:

• The classroom moments that humbled us
• Behaviour management moves that went wrong (and what we learned)
• Planning mistakes we’ll never make again
• How failure shaped us into better, more resilient teachers
• Why owning your mistakes makes you a stronger educator

It’s honest, funny, and deeply relatable — a reminder that even the most experienced teachers mess up, reset, and keep going.

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