The very best teachers out there are the ones who'll go the extra mile to ensure their students remain engaged in class.
And that's just what Verónica Duque was trying to do when she gave her students a breaking of the human anatomy during a biology class. But what's the best place to show kids exactly where your organs are? Well, Duque opted to dress in a full-body anatomy suit.
Yes, the now 45-year-old teacher was certainly dressed for the occasion, donning an outfit that mapped out what the human body looks like under the skin's surface.
As well as muscle and bones, the suit gave students an up close and personal look at where their teacher's organs would sit if they could see under her skin.
A picture of Verónica teaching in the suit went viral after her husband Michael posted it on X.
"Very proud of this full of ideas woman that I am lucky to have as a wife," he wrote, adding: "Today she taught anatomy to her students in a very original way. The kids went crazy!"
In response to the amazing display, X users heaped praise upon the teacher.
"That's thinking out of the box wish we had more like her," one person replied.
A second added [translated]: "It is fortunate to have professionals of this caliber, always seeking to leave their mark on their students."
Amazingly, Verónica is not the only teacher to come up with the teaching method - as it was also adopted by Dutch biology teacher Debby Heerkens back in 2015:
Per CNN, Heerkens removed layers showing muscle and skeletal structure in the human body, as well as organs. "At first they were a little bit in shock because they thought 'the teacher is taking off her clothes,' until, they saw what was underneath," she told CNN.
In an interview with Bored Panda, Verónica opened up about why she decided to don the unconventional teaching aid.
"I’ve been teaching for 15 years now," the third-grade teacher explained, adding: "I teach natural and social science, art, as well as English and Spanish."
She went on to reveal that she first saw the anatomy suit in an advert online.
"I was surfing the internet when an ad of an AliExpress swimsuit popped up. Knowing how hard it is for kids this young to visualize the disposition of internal organs, I thought it was worth it giving it a try," she explained.
Meanwhile, this certainly isn't the last time Verónica will be getting dressed up to help her students learn. She revealed that she has plans to use disguises to teach history and crowns to teach grammar.
"I decided long ago to use disguises for history lessons. I’m also using cardboard crowns for my students to learn grammatical categories such as nouns, adjectives, and verbs. Different grammar kingdoms, so to say," she said.
"I’d like society to stop considering teachers to be lazy bureaucratic public servants. We're certainly not," the teacher added.
