When asked, "do you feel pressure as a teacher?" Zane said:
Yes and no. As far as biology, just teaching the simple biology facts, no, I don’t feel any pressure about that because they’re not going to remember. Or, that might not be their passion, or, they’re never going to be in a situation to apply that.
We always get asked the question, “when am I ever going to need this?” I’m sure you asked the same question when you were in school, I asked the same thing. And it’s honestly like, “yeah, you’re probably never going to.”
I think it's more about the connections and the relationships that we build with students. I was thinking about this today, more than just the curriculum, there’s been a push the last couple of years of social and emotional learning, kinda like the team building type of things, just teaching students how to be a productive member in their class and then be able to handle any strange situation that pops up.
You and I, we didn’t graduate that long ago, but it’s crazy how different things have become in ten years… So it’s like, how do we help kids navigate the world that they’re going to be in instead of the world that we were in?
