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Teacher on TikTok shares ‘genius’ trick to make sure her students pay attention

Making sure your students are actually reading the instructions on their assignments. Several teachers are showing off a new method for doing just that. The teaching hack, as explained by TikTok user The Creator Educator, involves hiding an “extra,” sillier task in the instructions of a quiz.

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Being a teacher during a pandemic presents all kinds of new challenges.

One of the big ones? Making sure your students are actually reading the instructions on their assignments.

Several teachers are showing off a new method for doing just that. However, the trick is dividing users, with some calling it “genius” and others saying it could never work.

The teaching hack, as explained by TikTok user The Creator Educator, involves hiding an “extra,” sillier task in the instructions of a quiz. That instruction is to meow like a cat — out loud — during the assignment.

The TikToker, who teaches elementary school, recorded the results of her instruction-reading test during a math quiz. Slowly, a few of her kids started responding.

As several kids meowed, some students seemed baffled by the situation.

“Why was everyone saying ‘meow?'” one student asks through the video call.

“Ooh, why was everyone saying ‘meow?'” The Creator Educator responds. “Who can tell me?”

As one of her students explained, it was “a test to see who was listening.”


As The Creator Educator explained in her caption, she got the idea from another teacher on TikTok, who many commenters identified as the user Mrs. Sannon. In her version, students received bonus points if they meowed on their test — but apparently, more than 90 percent of them failed to do so.

The method earned praise from parents and teachers on TikTok, with several users commenting on The Creator Educator’s video that it was a “great idea.”

“Love this,” one user wrote.

“My high schoolers would start meowing just because others were,” another joked.

Others were more critical, saying many students might feel too nervous to make a strange noise out loud during a test.

“Sounds good except my son has anxiety that won’t allow him to do that,” one user wrote.

“My social anxiety said no thank you,” another added.

As Mrs. Shannon explained in a follow-up of her video, she also wrote in the instructions that students could type “meow” in the chat if they were too nervous to speak aloud. She added that some people had called her method “degrading” even though she specifically picked the word “meow” because her students know she loves cats.

“Please remember a 30 second video does not tell the whole story,” the teacher captioned her clip.

 

[Not Really Here]

This bitch is retarded, they already have tests to find out if the students are paying attention, they're known as "standardized tests".

 

[Immortal Technique]

more than 90 percent of them failed to do so.

I would guess a large portion of that 90% aren't willing to embarrass themselves for the amusement of the teacher for her TikTok.

We had a teacher do something like this, but didn't try to embarrass his students. The instructions basically told you not to answer any questions until you get to the end of the test. When at the end of the test it told you to hand it back to the teacher, so basically all you had to do was write your name and turn in a blank test and you got full credit.

 

[Jimjamflimflam]

Another Pulitzer prize worthy article in the series "Teacher does thing on tiktok". I can't believe people say journalism is dead these days.

 

[WonderWino]

In other words the test revealed which students proved they are morons and belong in special ed by actually following the instructions and the ones who kept quiet had enough sense to realize they were being tested and fucked with

The results of this test don't show what this teacher thinks they do, which speaks volumes as to the competency of said teacher

 

[MediocreMilt]

I'm so glad I'm not in school anymore.

Forced Zoom calls into your bedroom is just utterly creepy.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

This isn't genius. It's disruptive.

 

[Pentex]

The TikToker, who teaches elementary school, recorded the results of HER instruction-reading test during a math quiz.

Of course.

“Ooh, why was everyone saying ‘meow?'” The Creator Educator responds. “Who can tell me?”

As one of her students explained, it was “a test to see who was listening.”

1. Obedient workers for the mines.
2. Obedient soldiers for the army.
3. Well-subordinated civil servants to government.
4. Well-subordinated clerks to industry.
5. Citizens who thought alike about major issues.

Glad to see the Prussian Model is still alive and well in American education.

 

[Dutch Courage]

WTF? Am I actually seeing people claim that "social anxiety" prevents their kids, who are safe at home, from saying "meow" into their microphones?

Memo to parents: if uttering "meow" is too stressful and causes too much anxiety for your child, then put the child in a burlap bag, padlock it shut, weigh it down with rocks and drown him in the ocean. If "meow" triggers you and turns you fucking autistic, then forget life. You are too fragile, and you have nothing to offer society. We have too many people in the world as it is, time to start drowning the dead-enders.

 

[A Welsh Cake]

So uh,
Did you teach them anything?

 

[byuu]

WTF? Am I actually seeing people claim that "social anxiety" prevents their kids, who are safe at home, from saying "meow" into their microphones?

It's just a gay way of saying that the kids don't want to make an ass out of themselves in a call with their peers.

"Meow like a cat" seems like one step removed from "Bark like a dog, slave"

 

[Kheapathic]

I would guess a large portion of that 90% aren't willing to embarrass themselves for the amusement of the teacher for her TikTok.

We had a teacher do something like this, but didn't try to embarrass his students. The instructions basically told you not to answer any questions until you get to the end of the test. When at the end of the test it told you to hand it back to the teacher, so basically all you had to do was write your name and turn in a blank test and you got full credit.

I remember having a test like that from time to time; it wasn't really worth a grade as much as it was the teacher trying to demonstrate why it's important to read everything / follow instructions.

Another time I had a teacher who had 4 versions of a test; test was a fill in the bubble and each version of the test had a solid line of A-B-C-D for the right answer, depending on which version of the test you got. Doesn't help it was Biology and a lot of the wrong answers were things that sounded similar or were mispelled; so while the class is going through the test, we're all getting paranoid as shit because you'd never have an answer sheet that's a solid block of A's or whatever letter. Bitch still had the temerity to fail most of us on it; because paranois wasn't an excuse or something.

 

[Slimy Time]

We had a teacher do something like this, but didn't try to embarrass his students. The instructions basically told you not to answer any questions until you get to the end of the test. When at the end of the test it told you to hand it back to the teacher, so basically all you had to do was write your name and turn in a blank test and you got full credit.

Oh I remember one of my teachers doing this during one of these "life skills" classes when I was young. Everyone probably laughed it off as a silly task but now older it illustrates the point well. Read the paper/document in it's entirety before you sign or start jumping up and down.

 

[TFT-A9]

Did this bitch literally rip off the Super Troopers joke and call it a "genius test"

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

I guess it doesn't take much to get praised these days.

 

[Penis Drager]

I would guess a large portion of that 90% aren't willing to embarrass themselves for the amusement of the teacher for her TikTok.

We had a teacher do something like this, but didn't try to embarrass his students. The instructions basically told you not to answer any questions until you get to the end of the test. When at the end of the test it told you to hand it back to the teacher, so basically all you had to do was write your name and turn in a blank test and you got full credit.

This sort of thing isn't really all that abnormal. I had a teacher who put it in the instructions to put a star at the top corner of the test sheet.
I am officially convinced tiktok was a Chinese psy-op to retarderate the rest of the world.

 

[CWCissey]

I'm reminded of that joke about the professor that failed his entire class of med students because he sucked his middle finger after shoving his index up a cadaver's arsehole.

 

[LordofTendons]

This kind of shit is how I ended up in detention writing manifestos.

 

[TFT-A9]

This kind of shit is how I ended up in detention writing manifestos.

The few times I got sent to detention/study hall I spent it finding ways to fuck with the aide whose job it was to watch us. That and writing things like "PRINCIPAL DOYLE'S MOTHER SUCKS COCKS IN HELL" on school property.

 

[Penis Drager]

I'm reminded of that joke about the professor that failed his entire class of med students because he sucked his middle finger after shoving his index up a cadaver's arsehole.

what?