History Main / CoolTeacher

* Koro-Sensei from ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'' is a Cool Teacher to an absurd degree. Koro-Sensei is a cool, incredibly friendly and approachable teacher with a great deal of patience who encourages outside-of-the-box thinking for all his delinquent students, uses positive reinforcement constantly to successfully raise all their grades, tailors his lesson plans to his students' individual strengths, is willing to stay after school to listen to his students' problems or just hang out and help them with any hobby or activity, will intervene if the student has a troubled home life, and protect his students at the cost of his own life. If it weren't for the whole "[[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt I'm going to blow up the planet if I'm not assassinated by March]]" thing he would literally be the perfect teacher.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E102TheChangingOfTheGuard The Changing of the Guard]]", Professor Ellis Fowler is a well respected and excellent teacher. Although he is a bit sarcastic, he means it in good fun. His students call him [[InsultOfEndearment "Old]] [[AffectionateNickname Weirdbeard"]]; Fowler knows about this and is proud of the nickname.

** [[CoolOldGuy Uncle]] [[RetiredBadass Iroh]] also counts. Just watch any scene where he's teaching Zuko a lesson in fire-bending or general life lessons. [[ParentalSubstitute He's more of a father to Zuko than his actual father.]]

** Twilight Sparkle becomes for the CMC, a special tutor who takes special time to help our favorite fillies find their true potential.
** And [[BigGood Princess Celestia]] is one for Twilight in turn. Even if half the time she has to invoke SternTeacher to bring Twilight back to her senses.

* Professor Kukui from ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' has an attitude that is both easygoing and adventurous, and he makes sure that his students share in the fun. When Ash decides to enroll in his school, he's immediately accepting of his new student.

* ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' has "Mayu-[[SenseiChan Chan-Sensei]]" as the girl students call her. At one point she pretends to get angry, then grins and tells them to refer to her as "[[ShoutOut Great Teacher Mayuko]]".

* Glenn in ''LightNovel/AkashicRecordsOfBastardMagicInstructor''. While initially an ApatheticTeacher due to a combination of laziness and hating his subject (magic), after he takes his job seriously he becomes one of the best teachers in the school. He disregards the syllabus but this only means he's able to teach his students how to truly understand magic rather than learning by rote. He's good enough that students from other classes go to his lectures to listen.

* Chisa Yukizome in ''Anime/Danganronpa3TheEndOfHopesPeakHighSchool'', the former [[NinjaMaid "Ultimate Housekeeper"]] and the [[VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair 77th class]]' teacher in the Despair Arc. Despite the [[TheAce Ultimates]] not needing to attend class as long as they pass their exams, she goes out of their way to round them all up on her first day to encourage them to socialize with each other and manages to earn the respect of them all, including Kuzuryu (the Ultimate {{Yakuza}}) who she [[BadassTeacher pulls a knife on]] [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking when he tries to mouth off to her]].

* Rod Belding from ''Series/SavedByTheBell'', although it's subverted in at least one episode when it turns out that he's such a flake, he's willing to ditch his students on a field trip to have a date with a stewardess. Mr. Belding tries to be the cool teacher, but is generally the ReasonableAuthorityFigure. It's only when a third party enters the scene that Belding really teams up with his students and lets his Cool Teacher flag fly.

* Mark Jefferson of ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'' is shown as one as soon as the game begins. He was a fairly famous photographer in his own right before becoming a photography teacher at Blackwell (which was what motivated [[PlayerCharacter Max]] to return to her hometown and attend). He's relaxed enough to allow his students to take photos in class (even working Max taking a selfie into his lecture), encourages them all to enter the "everyday heroes" contest and sees through [[AlphaBitch Victoria]]'s brown nosing. Deconstructed when he's shown to be less than perfect in some ways; there are rumours he slept with Rachel Amber, he UsefulNotes/{{Victim Blam|ing}}es Kate for being drugged, [[spoiler: and he's a MadArtist who loves drugging students so he can photograph BreakTheCutie moments, and shows up at the end of Episode 4 to drug Max and shoot Chloe dead to cover up his own involvement in Rachel's death and Kate's suicide attempt.]]

** Emma Pillsbury also has shades of this; however, she's just the [[PsychologistTeacher guidance counselor]] and is a tiny bit to occupied with [[SuperOCD her own problems]].

* Mary in ''Film/TheMuppets'', such that her students simultaneously admit they'll miss her during their two-week Spring Break.

* Miss Desjardin of ''{{Literature/Carrie}}'' fits this not through her teaching methods, but through what she does in the story. When she sees just how awfully the girls in her class bully Carrie, she takes it upon herself to discipline them personally - essentially forcing them to do a week's detention for her (and she's the gym teacher, so she makes them sweat) by threatening them with suspension and banning from the prom; Miss Desjardin thought that should have been the punishment to begin with but the administration overrode her. She even risks her job to put the AlphaBitch Chris Hargenson in her place with an ArmorPiercingSlap. And at the prom, she takes the time to sit with Carrie and make sure she's having a good time. The film adaptations expand on this - in the 1976 film she gets a scene where she comforts Carrie and suggests how she could dress up for the prom, and in the 2002 film she's responsible for getting several students out of the burning gym.

* [[Wiki/SCPFoundation SCP]]-[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5094 5094]] is a BenevolentAI living in a discontinued 90's EdutainmentGame, capable of turning anyone into a prodigy in their chosen field. Even children with learning disabilities or difficult personalities are enthralled by her amiable personality, and every one of her students becomes attached to her and disheartened by the conclusion of their lessons. A seven-year-old she turned into an expert in railway engineering had to be physically removed from the room, and a D-class she turned into an expert in law described her as the "best teacher he ever had".

** Coach Gallo usually puts a stop to Dominic's bullying and respects the effort Mason puts into football practice enough to compliment him over other more talented but less determined players.* Principal Ambrose Kleks from the polish ''Pan Kleks'' book and movie series is essentially a cross between Ms. Frizzle and Dumbledore.

* Shizuka [[CatGirl Nekonome]] in ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'' is one of the few teachers who happens to be generally nice to everyone, enthusiatic about her job and helping her students learn, and actively encourages her students to participate in extracurricular activities. She does have a nasty habit of scratching her students whenever they point out something about her cat nature, though... even if it is for her own genuine good and protection.

* Erin Gruwell of ''Film/FreedomWriters''. Charged with teaching a class full of 'untouchable' students, she eventually encourages them to come together. When the school refuses to give the class new books, Erin works a second job to be able to pay for them herself. The students are inspired by her to fundraise for none other than Miep Gies[[note]]The lady who hid Anne Frank from the Gestapo[[/note]] to visit the class. Also [[BasedOnATrueStory based off of the real life teacher]].

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* "Abigail Beecher" (1964) by Freddy Cannon.

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* Mrs. Diaz the homeroom teacher from ''Podcast/{{Sequinox}}'', who all the students adore. She also dressed as a Franchise/{{Predator}} for Halloween.
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* Many people will have "that one teacher" who is just plain awesome and does things their own way.

* Creator/CarlSagan. Many of his own students are now big-time celebrity scientists in their own right. UsefulNotes/NeilDeGrasseTyson might be the most famous example. [[Series/BillNyeTheScienceGuy Bill Nye]] is another.
* Salman Khan, founder of [[http://www.khanacademy.org/ Khan Academy]], is the Internet's official Cool Teacher.

* [[https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemcneal/best-teachers-coronavirus-quarantine-funny During the Coronavirus, teachers are using their creativity to continue to teach their students and give some positivity.]]