Most people who teach do so because they love it; the passing on of knowledge and the chance to watch people learn and flourish is something that all teachers live for. However, after many years, there are parts of the job that you'll see changing. Mostly yourself. Here, we take a look at just a few of the signs which show you've been teaching for way too long. 

You're making the cheesiest jokes

When this all first started, you were only a few years older than the kids you were teaching, and you definitely wanted them to still think you were cool. Now? Well you stopped caring what the kids thought years ago, right? Let the cheesy puns and the not-quite-there memes flow. The kids might not laugh, but you do, and that's all that matters at the end of the day. 

You let those silly comments slide

When you were new to the job, you felt fiercely protective of your profession, and comments such as "at least you get all the holidays" and "you get to finish at 3pm" would send you into something of a mini rant in defence of teachers everywhere. Now, though, it's easier to just let these things slide. After all, you know how hard you work, and it doesn't matter who thinks otherwise. 

You become an expert at multitasking

Lunch time can be something of a hectic rush for some, but for the experienced, it's an opportunity to get so much done. While you're eating your lunch with one hand, the other will be busy making the most of not having a class around to distract you, whether it's marking exams and essays, making lesson plans or trying to find a way to resolve issues, you can multitask with the best of them!

You really resent the internet

What ever happened to grammar? The internet has heralded the age of knowledge, where it's easier than ever to find out anything you need to know, but kids seem to allow facts to go in one ear and all you've ever taught them about grammar to pour out of the other. Changing "u" to "you" and marking "their, there and they're" wrong multiple times every day leaves your blood boiling, and it's all thanks to the internet. 

And don't even mention smartphones!

The internet may be intensely irritating when it comes to robbing kids of their skills with the written word, but it's got nothing on the smartphone. When you've got a class with 30 kids, and all of them (wrongly) think they've got the spy skills of James Bond as they try to disguise the fact they're using it during lessons, you start to wish the iPhone had never been invented.

Your teaching methods become ever more inventive

As you get more confident with the material you are teaching, it can become easier and easier to get a little bored of it, but that's where you can get more inventive. And many do. If you are not feeling the history lesson you need to give for the tenth year in a row, you might start inventing roles and cast the class as the main players in the story. Anything to make it fun, for yourself as much as them!