Movies about teaching

An inner-city junior high school teacher with a drug habit forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students after she discovers his secret.

A high school French teacher is drawn into a precocious student's increasingly transgressive story about his relationship with a friend's family.

Mr. Müller and his class are taking a school trip to Thailand to strengthen the reputation of their school.

'The Teacher' is the coming of adulthood story of Vance Stewart. Young, White and idealistic, Vance has always been successful in everything he has done. Now he faces his biggest challenge, teaching in a New York City public high school. Vance doesn't want to be a traditional, "authoritarian" teacher who stands up in front of the classroom and lectures all day. He wants to be a different kind of teacher - creative, original. He wants to give his students a voice, to hear their stories. His ideals are put to the test when his students challenge his every step and misstep. Despite his best intentions, his students see him as just another teacher and they interrupt, ignore, question, and resist his efforts. Will Vance survive the year? And will he survive with his ideals intact?

Pierre, a successful orchestra conductor, returns home when his mother dies. He stumbles upon an old diary and recollects the childhood school memories and his music teacher Clement Mathieu.

A 20-something supervising staff member of a residential treatment facility navigates the troubled waters of that world alongside her co-worker and longtime boyfriend.

A 24-year-old first-time teacher overcomes her initial fears and prejudices and makes a difference in the lives of the homeless children she teaches in a shelter's makeshift classroom.

A comedy that follows an ex-convict who lands a position at a school that sits over the spot where money from one of his earlier robberies was stashed.

Shy 14-year-old Duncan goes on summer vacation with his mother, her overbearing boyfriend, and her boyfriend's daughter. Having a rough time fitting in, Duncan finds an unexpected friend in Owen, manager of the Water Wizz water park.

Three teenage friends, in the ultimate act of independence, decide to spend their summer building a house in the woods and living off the land.

Idealistic engineer-trainee and his experiences in teaching a group of rambunctious white high school students from the slums of London's East End.

LouAnne, a retired US marine, becomes a teacher in a Californian high school. But her mostly Latino and black students from an impoverished and racially segregated locality do not easily embrace her.

A frustrated composer finds fulfillment as a high school music teacher.

Feeling pressured to become more sexually experienced before she goes to college, Brandy Klark makes a list of things to accomplish before hitting campus in the fall.

A high school slacker who's rejected by every school he applies to opts to create his own institution of higher learning, the South Harmon Institute of Technology, on a rundown piece of property near his hometown.

A rich kid becomes the self-appointed psychiatrist to the student body of his new high school.

As a war rages on in the province of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, a young girl becomes transfixed by the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations, which is being read at school by the only white man in the village.