“I’ve been teaching for over 25 years. I teach AP Chemistry. Most of my students are intimidated by my class when they first come in because AP Chemistry is considered one of the most universally difficult AP courses. 

My teaching philosophy is to just let the students do what they want. My class is just straight vibes. There are always paper airplanes flying across the classroom, male students yelling while playing Brawl Stars, and more students filming TikTok dances. But hey, if the kids want to exercise their creativity, who am I to stop them? 

When it comes to actually teaching stuff, I just do what’s necessary. Like, why would I teach something that has only an 80% chance of appearing on the AP test? That’s just pointless and I don’t want to overwork the kids. If it isn’t something that will definitely appear on the test, I’m not teaching it, simple.

I don’t have due dates on assignments either. If the kids wanna turn it in on the last day of school, who cares? I’m not grading it anyways. Also I only tell my students if there’s a test the day before. I just like to be spontaneous, you know? And it’s not like the kids care because we all know none of them are studying for it anyways. 

The best thing I tell my students is to make use of the resources available to them. If they want to use ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or whatever, who am I to stop them? It’s better than making lesson plans myself because the information is more accurate anyways.

I lowkey just chill at my desk while the students do their thing. It’s kinda annoying when the try hard kids come to ask me questions but I can’t really complain because it’s lowkey my job to help them. I usually just tell them it won’t be on the AP test and get back to doing my own thing. (Interviewer Note: Multiple student sources have confirmed that “doing my own thing” refers to binge watching anime, stalking Fantasy Football rankings, or microwaving Buldak).”