When Covid became part of our daily life, we had to review many of our habits and introduce new ones, including smart working and DAD, distance learning.
In October 2020, Adam Hammondprofessor atUniversity of Toronto, in Canada, try your best to keep the human relationship alive with his students. And she does it by doing participate her cat to lessons!
A special day
As an introduction to that day’s lesson, Adam Hammond wanted to announce a piece of news of the utmost importance: it was on Wendy’s 10th birthday, his adorable tabby and white cat! After introducing Wendy on video, the professor asked the students to wish her a happy birthday!
The professor rather expected to make them smile and to bring a little levity during those difficult times, not foreseeing the reaction of a student at all, Samantha Chanthat has recorded the video to publish it on social media. Student, very moved from the teacher’s gesture, she wished Wendy a happy birthday as best she could, tears permitting!
A moment of viral joy
Samantha wanted to share this moment of pure joy with her friends and the video quickly became popular Viral on TikTokwith over 730,000 views, 200,000 likes and over 5,000 shares!
“I just wanted to share this moment with my friends. It was so unexpected! I made this video to show that teachers are human too and do their best to adapt to changes. And sometimes, they have adorable ideas to help us adjust to this difficult situation,” explains the girl.
A surprised and moved teacher
Adam Hammond was very surprised by the virality of the video: «Is it because my cat is cute? Or does it depend on the student’s reaction? Or will it be because of the strange shirt he’s wearing? », he wondered.
Wishing understand the phenomenon, interviewed several students and TikTok users, who explained that isolation due to Covid was very difficult and that this unexpected moment made them feel a real sense of closeness to the teacher.
Touched by the students’ reaction, this teacher continues to take what he calls “nice breaks”: so he often interrupted his lessons for a few minutes for show her cat again Wendy or just things of the his daily life.
A creativity and sympathy that, in addition to enchanting his students, has also conquered the web.
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