“It was really trying to put out content that I wish existed when I started teaching.” Teachers who watch his videos can see that they’re not alone, and have a safe outlet to ask questions they might not want to ask one of their supervisors or someone else at the building, he says. So, he decided to make videos about his own experience teaching. “I just didn’t have time for that sort of thing.” “Everything was through a book, or you had to subscribe to something or you had to just read through blogs,” he says. One thing he had noticed was the lack of “any kind of real advice” when he first began teaching. Although his son eventually decided to step away from vlogging, Reynolds had already learned how to film and edit. He originally got into vlogging because his son wanted a YouTube channel. Reynolds has doled out advice on a wide variety of topics, such as classroom management strategies, helping kids deal with loss and how to take students on a trip abroad to his more than 14,600 subscribers. “If you ask any teacher out there, they’re definitely going to say that one of the main things that they would love to do is be a fly on the wall in someone else’s classroom,” says Spackman, who teaches 4th-6th graders in central Pennsylvania and posts to her channel, The Lettered Classroom. Teachers want to see what other classrooms look like, and what their peers are doing in those spaces throughout the day.
Another teacher vlogger, Bridget Spackman, thinks the reason why these videos are so popular is because humans are nosy. Videos that rack up high page views tend to focus on three topics in particular-classroom tours, snapshots of a “day in the life” of a teacher and visual showcases of flexible furniture. Search “teacher vlog” on YouTube, and you’ll get videos on an array of classroom related topics, from hatching chicks in the classroom to end-of-year math activities. Reynolds is just one of many teachers that have taken to vlogging over the past few years, creating a vibrant community along the way. For approximately the past two years, he’s been vlogging on YouTube about his experience as an educator-and garnered hundreds of thousands of video views in the process. That’s because he’s not just a ninth-grade literature teacher at Boys’ Latin of Philadelphia High School. Educator Charles Reynolds has gotten recognized at teacher conferences and restaurants.
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