Teach To The Heart If your classroom doesn’t include these elements, if you’re simply following along with the paint-by-numbers curriculum you’ve been provided, then classroom management will be a never-ending struggle and academic progress will be teeth-pulling slow. When you regularly tap into your students’ natural desires, however, when you speak and teach directly to their hearts rather than into their ears and over their heads, then their eyes will widen, their backs will straighten in their seats, and they’ll be filled with the love of learning.