Building Interest In Teaching!

I am starting out this week's teaching reflection with the positives. So, it went awesome! I think that using TikTok is a great strategy to spark student interest because of its popularity in our culture right now. I feel like this is a great way to connect on the same level with the students. Being able to find content on popular platforms that connects to your lessons is a great way to build interest around your subject.

On to the negatives, I feel like this interest approach could be overused and then start to come off as corny or like I am trying to fit in with the cool kids. I realize that this can be a great way to build interest but maybe only using this approach once or twice a semester.

I will plan to use this TikTok interest approach probably one time in each of my classes during my semester of student teaching. This will allow my students to have the opportunity to experience this approach and I will use it for lessons to create a fun environment for the lesson.


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