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In the sentence
俺は人にモノを教えるのは得意じゃない。人には向き不向きがあるだろ？ 正直、勉強を教えるって意味じゃ俺なんかより、堀北や櫛田のほうが向いている
I'm not a good teacher.People have different strengths and weaknesses, right ? To be honest, Horikita and Kushida were better teachers than I was.
I know that って is for という, and that 意味 has a sense of "meaning" but I cannot figure out in the sentence
Here Japanese actually matches English usage quite closely: "teaching 勉強" is simply only one possible sense/meaning of all the kinds of teaching that "teaching モノ" (i.e., teaching in general) could conceivably entail.
正直、勉強を教えるって意味じゃ俺なんかより、堀北や櫛田のほうが向いている
"To be honest, [when it comes to teaching] in the sense of teaching academic subjects, Horikita and Kushida are more suitable than I am."
