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If empathy means to put oneself in someone else's shoes, it plays a great role in education. Teachers are supposed to be empathic because they have to understand the needs and the emotions of his/her pupils in order to make them successful in terms of learning and autonomy. Their ability consists on creating a positive atmosphere inside the classroom thanks to their attitude; this helps the students to cooperate thus enhancing the process of learning. From a survey conducted in seven classes of students between 11 and 14 years old, in which the teenagers were asked to answer some questions related to what empathy was for them, how important it was between mates and with teachers, and what they would have done to improve it, it has emerged that empathy is necessary in class, either between mates or with teachers; students have given some personal definitions about empathy and some advices to the teachers in order to improve their attitude, among others for example, to be more open-minded and talk to the students more often. Several people think that empathy is a natural ability, but, as the Australian comedian, Tim Minchin declared, empathy is intuitive, but is also something you can work on, intellectually. That is why professionals should work on how to acquire practiced skills. This chapter gives some advices to the teachers in order to strengthen their abilities as empathic and successful teachers. One of the approaches considered in this analysis is the flipped classroom, where pupils have the opportunity to prepare and to present lessons thanks to the support of the teacher and of the technological instruments. In this context, empathy plays a decisive role because students are really asked to put themselves in the teachers' shoes, either in terms of emotions or in terms of skills. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]