السلام عليكم و رحمة الله و بركاته
Women can be teachers, but men should avoid listening to women as long as other men are teaching the very same things to avoid the Fitnah of being attracted to women.
If the lady teacher in question is teaching a science that other men are not teaching or are busy to give time to you, then you may learn from the lady teacher subject to certain Sharii’ conditions:
(1) The woman should be accompanied by her Mahram, or another responsibile group of women, and there should be no Khalwa (being alone with the non-Mahram male).
(2) She should be in the appropriate Islamic Hijab.
(3) If she follows the opinion of covering her face not being obligatory, she shouldn’t beautify her face when keeping it open.
(4) She shouldn’t apply perfumes or any fragrance while teaching.
(5) She should try her best not to have an alluring voice.
(6) If she is being viewed by men, live or in a recorded video, the men should look at the state of their hearts and stop listening to her if their hearts are getting attracted to her. In either case, watching a live show or video recording, men should obligatorily lower their eyes from the female teachers, unless the female teacher is too old (post-menopausal) and unattractive to be sought for marriage.
(7) Sessions with Shaikhs or Shaikhas, which have mixed audiences, should have appropriate partitioning. They two genders shouldn’t sit side by side, rather, the men should sit in the front rows and women should be seated from the last rows (with or without a curtain). There shouldn’t be mixed seating arrangements or side-by-side separated arrangements. Side-by-side arrangements are ok if their is a physical partition like a wall or curtain.
-Abu Muaaz Mohammed Manna.
Saheehus-Seerah 