Dressed As Superheroes, This Teacher Is Definitely Making His Online Classes Fun

Now that the superheroes are locked-down as well, they are using their superpowers to teach kids online. Don’t believe us? Check out this enthusiastic teacher who has been dressing up as different superheroes to entertain his students during the virtual classes.

Meet Jorge Manolo Villarroel, a teacher at the San Ignacio Catholic School, whose superhero dress-up virtual classes are pumping energy into the students. The 33-year-old is an art and Zumba teacher, who lives in a poorer neighbourhood of the Bolivian capital and his students range from 9 to 14 years old. In his virtual classes, he’s sometimes a Spiderman, sometimes a Batman, sometimes the Flash, and sometimes the Green Lantern.

Jorge’s classes have received so much love from the students that siblings fight for the laptop screen to learn from this costumed teacher. “They arrive in the virtual classes before me and the first surprise is to guess which superhero will appear on the screen,” he said.

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Speaking of why he chose the dress-up, he explained, “It’s time for us to open up to their world, which is through chat (the modern style of conversation). When children speak, they can be limited, but in the chat, they expand, they become the teachers and show me the usage of (tech) applications.”

Jorge’s efforts have inculcated the excitement in kids for the classes. Each of his class has a minimum attendance of forty-five students, who look forward to guessing the superhero he’ll be dressing up as on that particular day. 

For his classes, he makes the costumes himself. “I had to improvise since, with the quarantine, I couldn’t get out.” Also, his students have been helping with tech-related problems. “Hey, teacher! You have to anchor the image. Go to the screen of your cellphone and look for a small one,” he quoted one of the students advising him.

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What a great way to make a strong bond with the younger generation, isn't it?