Magic dance: Chinese teacher leads students in lively daily classroom routine to decompress and make learning fun, delighting social media
- A video of a Chinese teacher’s unorthodox approach to motivating students by asking them to dance before class is trending online
- The teacher says her students feel happy and have more energy after dancing, which helps improve their mood and focus during class
A teacher encouraging her students to dance to decompress and improve focus before starting class has trended on mainland Chinese social media.
A video of the lively dance showed secondary school students coordinating closely with each other and smiling happily in Maanshan in eastern China’s Anhui province, The Paper reported.
Their teacher, surnamed Zhou, said it’s part of her routine for students to perform rhythmic dances before class.
“I love sports, so I want my students to do more physical exercises,” she said. “Before each of my classes, especially in the afternoon, I will enter the classroom five minutes earlier than scheduled and get students to dance, hoping it will prevent drowsiness and relieve some of the academic pressure on the students.”
Zhou said the students feel joyful and energetic after they dance.
“As a result, my class atmosphere is always quite active, and the students can absorb what they learn quickly,” she said.