A great teacher learns how to teach using different methods based on each student. People don’t learn in the same ways. Sometimes it requires some creativity or sometimes a more harsh approach to get students to understand.

We are so glad these 25 teachers exist and don’t just teach from textbooks. We are here to showcase their “out of the box” teaching methods that will better prepare kids for the real world.

Off to school, we go!

1. Breaking Bad

You have to get the students’ attention. So, of course, you should dress the part. This chemistry teacher taught as the character from Breaking Bad, Heisenberg.

2. The Gentlemen’s Club

These teachers started a club to teach the students life lessons. Most of these students don’t have a male role model in their life, so these teachers are there for them for direction and advice.

3. Build them up

Before this teacher starts teaching his special education students, he spends 10 minutes giving each of them individual compliments. He says this ritual has raised his students’ self-esteem and confidence.

4. Time to be tough

This teacher caught wind that one of his students was in the bathroom smoking. Nothing passive here. It’s time to surprise her and deal with it.

5. Not about the money

In the most honest way, teaching has nothing to do with money. It’s about giving kids the tools to give themselves the opportunity to succeed. This man works at a general store and teaches poor kids in India at a makeshift classroom under a bridge. He hopes they don’t have to endure the hardships he had gone through.

6. The extra mile

This Iranian boy has cancer and is unable to attend school. His teacher comes every day to fill him in on what he missed at school.

7. Calculator rental

To make sure that everyone has access to a calculator, this teacher glued a brick to their calculators. No one wants to steal these.

8. Honesty is the best policy

This teacher left her students to take a test. As soon as she left, they started copying off each other. Only to have a shock to see the teacher had been watching them the whole time. Creepy, but effective. Lesson learned.

9. Education is important

Teachers know that it is essential that you receive an education regardless of your situation. This teacher is committed to her students.

Told my professor I missed class yesterday bc I couldn’t find childcare & this was her response. I’m literally crying. So blessed/thankful😩😭 pic.twitter.com/3QaThJRXdo

— Morgan King (@morgantking) June 16, 2017

10. Lego Math

Bring something into the classroom that kids know very well and can visualize the math lesson. This is just genius.

11. Truth be told

Teachers know a whole lot more about whats going on in their classrooms than the students think.

12. Meme

It’s important for teachers to know about trends with their students. Knowing about memes is a relevant way to deliver information to the class, and it makes them more interested.

13. Forgot your pen, eh?

Then you get the special “loaner pen” from the teacher. It’s to hope you never forget it again.

14. Teaching about artists

This art teacher dresses up every Halloween as a new artist to share with his students. To say he did a great job would be an understatement.

15. Know the value of family

Education is not only something you can get from a classroom but also from outside the classroom. This teacher knows the value of both paths of education.

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16. They want you to succeed

Some teachers are so dedicated to their students, that they offer themselves as a resource outside school hours, even if it’s 11 pm.

17. It’s all heart

Teachers essentially donate their time and their own money for school supplies. This teacher made the ultimate donation of a kidney to a student in need. Beautiful.

18. Good Idea

This board gives people a way to vent their daily feelings. It should be used in every workplace to allow the “check-in” conversation to occur. Very therapeutic.

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19. Very talented

This Chinese biology teacher is drawing a human skeleton to teach his students, but it looks like he could have been an artist if he wanted to.

20. Different approach

This teacher wasn’t so flexible with their students. As you can see, if your homework is late, don’t even bother bringing it in.

21. Student engagement

This teacher buys a white dress every year and lets her students fill it with their artwork. Great for the students, and she gets to keep the dress filled with memories.

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22. Built-in babysitter

“My dad is a college professor. When one of his student’s babysitter didn’t show, she had to take her 4-month-old daughter to class with her. She started to get fussy, so he did what any good dad would do. They spent almost the entire class like this!”

23. No map, no problem

This teacher wanted to teach some geography to his students, but he didn’t have a map. So he drew one.

24. They show support

This little girl was being bullied at school because of her hair. So her teacher decided she would show her support by wearing her hair in the same way.

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25. Teachers value their students’ lives

This teacher was hugging a student under some rubble and was unharmed when a tornado destroyed their school. Look at the love on his face.

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