Teaching is a challenging and underrated job. It isn’t easy to always come in with a smile on your face while motivating and teaching children.
That being said, there are some over-achieving teachers who really go above and beyond to wow their students and families given the sometimes difficult circumstances. Here are some teachers who deserve an award for doing the best job they possibly can.
This woman, Haley Curfman, teaches the 2nd grade. To encourage students’ creativity, she buys an all-white dress online and lets her students color all over it with different materials.
It’s not ideal that babysitter decides to not show up, which is what happened for this one mother. So she took her baby to class. Halfway through class and the baby starts crying, so what does her professor do? Takes her baby and holds her like this for the rest of class.
This teacher heard that one of his students was smoking in the school bathroom. So he did what any responsible teacher would do and parked outside the bathroom to wait for him to come out.
This teacher is poor and works at a general store but didn’t want other poor kids to have the same experience as him, so he takes time to teach them under this bridge.
This teacher in Ghana taught his students how to use a computer by drawing it on a chalkboard by hand. Microsoft saw and decided to send him and his students Microsoft computers.
Sonya Romero asks her students every morning if they have eaten breakfast and brushed their teeth among other things to assure that they are ready to learn and focus on their work.
This teacher dyed his hair pink but for good reason. It was to raise funds for a first grader in his school who was diagnosed with epilepsy when they were only 15 months old. This will help the child get a service dog.
In attempt to spark more joy and interests in their students, a bunch of teachers decided to get together to transform boring lockers into giant book spines. So creative.
And that policy is NO homework. This teacher believes their children should be spending evenings with their family, playing, and getting to bed early and we are so here for it.
This teacher proposed a fun challenge to their students: if everyone finished their homework on time, she would wear a chicken costume to school every day for a whole week. Of course it worked.
This teacher offers a check-in at the start of every day that allows students to note whether they’re doing well or would like to have a check-in. So, so important!
Another student’s childcare arrangement fell through, so they also had to bring their child to class. Their teacher was not only OK with it, but they even offered to hold the baby the whole class so that the student could focus on the lesson.
This teacher knew their wonderful students were stressed out, and they also knew the importance of rest. This list of “homework” to-do’s is simply awesome.
To raise money for a charity, this teacher let any student who donated a dollar to use a strip of tape to tack him to the wall. This is the end result.
This teacher’s son was sick, so she could have either stayed home with him or brought him to school with her. She chose the latter and decided to dress up as a dinosaur so that he wouldn’t get bored.
Teaching is a challenging and underrated job. It isn’t easy to always come in with a smile on your face while motivating and teaching children.
That being said, there are some over-achieving teachers who really go above and beyond to wow their students and families given the sometimes difficult circumstances. Here are some teachers who deserve an award for doing the best job they possibly can.
