Nothing like your league of real teaching, but I once taught GED classes to adults who were in an HIV services program I worked for. I built an entire curriculum structured around The Simpsons, and I worked really hard to make my explanations not just easy to understand but infused with humor.

Students clamored to be in my class, and I had a much higher GED pass rate then the other two teachers in the program.

I credit that to the fact that people looked forward to coming to class with me. I mean the long division, fractions, and basic algebra we had to get through were never going to be fascinating.

But at least if students looked forward to coming to class, they were in a good head space to learn.

Worked for me, though of course my limited experiences don’t generalize.