Basic Trope: A teacher helps students solve problems in their personal lives.
- Straight: Bob is a teacher, and he spends much of his time giving life advice to his students. Seeing him teach an actual lesson that's not life advice is about as common as finding a four leaf clover.
- Exaggerated: Bob never seems to teach anything and instead seems to have individually connected with and helped every single one of his students with personal problems.
- Downplayed: Bob focuses on academics to a realistic extent, but he's happy to chat with students about personal problems during lunch.
- Justified: As a trusted adult figure in his students' lives, Bob feels this is his responsibility.
- Inverted:
- Bob is a Sadist Teacher who is devoted to making his student's lives worse.
- Bob's students help him with problems in his personal life.
- Subverted: When a student tells Bob about his parents' messy divorce, Bob expresses sympathy, but says the class has to focus on their lesson.
- Double Subverted: Which ends up being a study of marital problems in literature that's designed to apply to the student's situation.
- Parodied: Bob literally teaches a class called "Life Advice."
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Bob doesn't help students with their personal problems.
- Enforced: In a teen drama that is subject to School of No Studying, this is an easy way to get a teacher involved in the plot and avert Adults Are Useless.
- Lampshaded: "So do you teach any subjects other than life lessons?"
- Invoked: On his first day of school, Bob is advised that he needs to be not just a lecturer but a confidant too.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Teachers are forbidden from meddling in students' personal lives.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Bob's classes aren't seen, but a couple students consider going to him for advice.
- Deconstructed:
- Bob's focus on personal life lessons means he has little time for actual academics, and he's fired when his students bomb their standardized tests.
- Bob's students find his approach heavy-handed and don't really like his help.
- Reconstructed:
- Bob finds a compromise by using rigorous academic lessons that are customized to apply to the students' personal lives.
- Bob changes his approach to be more subtle, dropping hints and guiding students come to their own epiphanies. He helps them without them realizing it, so students don't feel embarrassed by him.
- Played for Laughs: Bob is a Comically Serious Only Sane Man who helps his students with extremely wacky problems and constantly questions his career choice.
- Played for Drama: Bob's is a Knight in Sour Armor in a troubled school who suspects that he can't really help his students with their serious problems. He's seen most of his students end up poor, addicted to drugs, or even dead, but he maintains a grim determination to help them out.
- Played for Horror: Bob gives out advice for all sorts of things... Including the best way of murder, how to hide a body, and how to get away with said murder.
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