ORLANDO, Fla. — A+ Teacher Jessica Strong teaches for Florida Virtual School. She uses humor to make learning fun and memorable for her students. Strong says, "I really think that building ...

He moves to the front of the classroom, voice booming with enthusiasm, to rile up his students. "Good afternoon!" he says with a friendly bellow to his sixth-period class. The students continue ...

There are few better ways to end the week than with a good laugh. This week, a short story on McSweeney’s poked some gentle fun at what the common-core debate sounds like for people outside the ...

School can be tough... Hours of concentration, loads of homework, awkward group projects, and battling to remember that formula you'll probably never use in real life. But every now and again, a ...

ROCKFORD (WREX) – Brian Maier is a history, economics, and business law teacher at Guilford High School. He uses his wit and humor to capture students attention and engage them in the course’s topics.

But then I discovered a trick: I loved watching late-night parodies of the news like Saturday Night Live and The Daily Show, and I would repurpose their jokes to make her laugh. That motivated me to ...

Even before she was a teacher, Cindy Chejfec was teaching. “I was doing program development for the Kohl Children’s Museum, The Children’s Museum at Navy Pier, the Field Museum of Natural History and ...

JACKSON, MI - It was the positive relationships with his own teachers that made Aaron Hunt pursue a career in education. Now, he hopes to be the same type of role model for his own students. Hunt, 44, ...

MICHIGAN CENTER, MI - It only took him 18 years, but Anthony Howard finally passed sixth grade in 2023. Howard, 44, taught science to elementary school students for almost two decades, with most of ...

Subject: Never run with nitroglycerin or a bucket of camel snot. Well, you could, but it would be your funeral. But seriously, using humorous subject lines just might be a way to engage students being ...