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This dancing US middle school teacher is blowing up on TikTok due to his smooth moves

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This dancing US middle school teacher is blowing up on TikTok due to his smooth moves

This dancing US middle school teacher is blowing up on TikTok due to his smooth moves

And the best teacher award goes to... Craig Smith, the 52-year-old father-of-two and middle school teacher from Louisville, Kentucky.

Craig, a teacher at Oldham County Middle School, is going viral on TikTok, the social media platform favoured by Gen Z, by posting upbeat dancing videos from his classroom.

Craig told Newsflare: "I have always tried to stay in touch with current trends and social media in order to better communicate with my students.

I have always enjoyed dancing since I was very young.

"My daughters watch TikTok so I checked it out.

My youngest daughter and I did a couple of TikTok's and when the students at my school found out they really got into it.... so I decided to do a dance TikTok.

"It sort of took off at school and the students called me TikTok famous.

I did another video right before Xmas break and they really went crazy and started following me and saying it was viral.

"The last video I did for some reason went even crazier and the kids started getting even more interested, always telling me about followers and likes and that I was viral.

When I hit Instagram it really got crazy.

"I really only did this to help my relationship with my students.

It helps them to see that I know and understand some of the things they do and like.

It also helps me communicate with them and get through to them in other situations.

As a teacher, my relationship with my students is paramount to their learning and I like the energy it brings." Check out Craig's uplifting TikTok: @craigsmith405


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