ORLANDO, Fla. — There is so much to experience and learn in Caela Sause's Colonial High School classroom in Orlando. The A+Teacher says she hears all the time that teaching is a thankless job, but she says for her, it's the complete opposite.

"It's hands-on. We're going outside. We're working with real live animals," she explains. "We're actually growing plants and they get that life. They get that fire again."

When Spectrum News 13 dropped by her classroom, students were learning about the history of the Future Farmers of America, something she experienced herself firsthand.

Sause says, "It gives them a chance to learn that you can learn science. Science can be cool. History like we did today can be cool. Math can be cool."

She says she gets excited about seeing her students excited about learning. "For me, it's why I do what I do."

Sause sums up what she hopes her students take away from her course.

"The last few years have been hard, and I've seen a lot of lack of desire to be in school — just a loss of passion," she says. "And I see students come in this class and they feel excited about something. They walk out of this class having laughed, having been yelling, having been loud, and they feel better about themselves and about that day than perhaps what they did when they walked into the classroom in the first place. For me, that adds value to what we're doing in teaching."