They say those that can't, teach but they have probably never met Scot Pankey. The theater arts teacher from A. Maceo Smith New Tech High School in Dallas gave his students a memorable lesson when he tasked his class to create a video featuring Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars' hit "Uptown Funk."
"I heard the song before Christmas and fell in love with it," Pankey tells the Dallas Morning News. "We are a project-based school ... You give the students a project, put them in teams, and they have to come up with solutions. They had three weeks to work on it, then present as a group what they learned."
In the 5-minute video, Pankey dances through the halls with his students in a clip that could have been pulled straight from an episode of Glee. "So proud of my kids," Pankey wrote on Facebook. "This is a great example of how a bunch of technology students dropped their fears, trusted their teacher and got down to Uptown Funk!!!
We give this teacher an A for effort!
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