Myself, living 10 minutes away from the zoo, and teaching remotely, We’re in our third year, and we don’t currently do a field trip to the “There is a lot we can learn from the zoo. “I was excited to take them all there,” he told the Today show. “Now what habitat do you think these animals live in?” he asks his class of 27 as he stands in front of the penguin enclosure. Laptop while walking around the zoo, talking to the kids about the In the video, Talcott is shown interacting with his student via his That success attracted theĪttention of NBC’s Today show, which featured him in March. Viral, attracting more than 800,000 views. Surprise virtual field trip to Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo, soon went One of those videos, during which Talcott took his students on a Small clips of lessons to his own social media accounts. Working with Talcott, he started uploading Talcott’s animated and enthusiastic interactions with his students, that Talcott’s partner, Michael Rivera-Dirks, was so impressed by He began teaching remotely from his apartment.
Talcott, a kindergarten teacher at Ella Baker Elementary in Redmond,Īlso didn’t start out seeking social media fame. One of her first videos received more than 14.3 million views, and each post consistently receives a minimum of 100,000 views. I never expected anyone would see it!”Īdams’ TikTok teaching videos quickly went viral, and her page now has more than 8.6 million likes and 403,000 followers. “I wanted to see if I appeared engaging to the students and how the lesson looked from the students’ perspective. “I posted my first teaching TikTok just to reflect on my teaching,” Adams said. Not having taught online before the pandemic, she wanted to see what her students were seeing through their screens and began recording herself. A pair of CWU graduates-each kindergarten teachers in the Seattle area-have turned to the popular TikTok video app to reach their students in new ways.īoth Mackenzie Adams (’18) and Garrett Talcott (’12) found their worlds changed dramatically last year with the transition from in-person to online learning due to COVID-19.Īdams, a kindergarten teacher at Glenwood Elementary in Lake Stevens, Washington, said she never set out to be a TikTok star, but that’s exactly what happened when she posted her first teaching video on the popular social media platform in 2020.
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