Who are the ‘Tiktoker’ teachers giving advice to college students?

With thousands of followers on TikTok, they joined “Estadão” in Lousa’s POV series to teach students about testing strategies

THE TikTok is a social network that has opened up even more space for different niches of content production: from “ordinary” people, who show their daily lives, to professionals from the most diverse areas who promote science and demystify myths. As a network aimed primarily at young audiences, education-related content has become more frequent, with students showing off their study routines and teachers teaching in a relaxed manner.

Carol Jesper, Victor Polillo, and Lucas Moreno are some of these teachers who teach not only in the classroom, but also on cell phone screens. With thousands of followers on TikTok, they joined the Estadao in the series Lousa’s POV to give advice to university students in this “tense” period of many tests and important decisions.

But who are the teachers? tiktoker?

Carol Jesper

Carol Jeser (@portugueselegal) is a Portuguese language teacher and author of textbooks, such as That’s not what I meant (Maquinaria, 2024), on the interpretation of the text. He also has a Masters in Education from USP.

In his profile he explains the grammar and interpretation of the text in everyday contexts. “TikTok carries a little bit of that stigma of a dance network, or a short video network, and I brought 10-minute videos to TikTok that analyzed misinterpretations of the lyrics, and they were very well received videos , with a lot of involvement,” he says, celebrating the exposure to a wide audience.

But TikTok wasn’t Carol’s first platform. Long before the network existed, in 2021, the teacher created, together with a friend, “Português é Legal”, initially on Facebook and, over time, migrated to other applications.

“I really wanted a space where I could talk a little bit about the Portuguese language from a more realistic point of view, deal with the real language, the language we speak and, at the same time, also teach the norms a little bit. There are norms simple to teach, simple to learn, that many people haven’t had access to, and often people have stigmatized writing or speaking because of lack of access,” he explains.

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He also wanted to have a different approach to what he saw on the Internet: “I thought it was a bit harmful the way I saw the Portuguese language presented on the Internet, always with decontextualized rules, with a lot of educational terrorism, making people who don’t they know the rules they feel less intelligent, less worthy of being listened to, so I also wanted to convey the idea that no one should be silenced because they don’t master formal conventions.”

“I love being an Internet teacher,” she says.

Originally from Minas Gerais, she moved to São Paulo to study Literature at USP. Even before college I was already passionate about the Portuguese language. “It was at school that I realized this affinity, so it was a very natural path to go to the Faculty of Letters, and there I discovered that the grammar of the Portuguese language was not what I thought, it was not just the grammar, which it was a misconception that school gave me and that it tends to put in a lot of people’s heads,” he says.

During college he became a teacher and then began working at a Portuguese textbook publisher. She left the classrooms, but did not detach herself from the students or the teachers, she says, while preparing the teaching materials used in the classroom, she now also works at the Department of Education of the State of São Paulo.

Luca Moreno

Lucas Moreno (@moleculando) teaches chemistry through everyday situations: from how to get the smell of garlic off your hands and why onions make us cry to how to prevent bread from becoming hard the next day.

A graduate of the Federal University of the ABC (UFABC), he chose the profession because in addition to his good performance in subject tests at school, he also had good teaching skills to teach his colleagues. He says that having had great chemistry teachers influenced his decision, and that they ultimately became a point of reference.

“I had excellent chemistry teachers who made me understand the subject well and this made everything easier for me. And, as a result, I started doing well in my exams, which gave me the motivation to continue having fun with chemistry. chemistry I have always found the experiments interesting, as chemistry is present in our daily lives, I began to explain chemistry to many of my friends, I began to make some friends understand it”, he says.

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The decision to start making videos on TikTok came during the pandemic, when Lucas realized the need to digitize some professions. There he found himself, and says he received a lot of support from the social network: “it is a platform that invests a lot in education”. Today he also works on other social networks.

“What I like most about my profession is being able to make people realize their dreams. A student who meets you on the street and says ‘I saw that series of lectures’ or ‘I took your chemistry class and I was able to get through the university I wanted, or the course I wanted,’” the professor says.

Vittorio Polillo

Mathematics teacher Victor Polillo (@professorvictorpolillo) publishes, on his TikTok profile, videos in which he plays recordings of other content creators, who question the public on the street about basic mathematical calculations, explaining how to perform the proposed calculations and how to get there in the correct result. On YouTube he creates videos that teach how to solve the entrance exam exercises.

He says he chose teaching before choosing mathematics. In fact, he even tried to be an engineer, but he didn’t like the career, and he ended up changing paths and majoring in mathematics at USP.

“I always identified with my degree first, then I identified with mathematics. I gave private lessons and also helped my friends when I was at school, because I always really liked the exact sciences,” he says.

Victor also entered the world of the internet during the pandemic, when he started making videos to help his students in the pre-university course where he teaches. “And then I got on TikTok, started giving quick tips and everything, and it worked,” he says.

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“What I like most is the exchange with the students, the feeling of doing something good. There are many students who say: ‘professor, you helped me a lot, you made me love mathematics more’, which is a subject that people usually don’t like very much”, reports the professor.

As for making the videos, he says the satisfaction comes from being able to reach people he couldn’t reach in person. “This allowed me, for example, to close private lessons and to approve students in selection processes in Portugal, Switzerland and everywhere else,” he says.

Source: Terra

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