What made you realize you wanted to become a teacher?

“It was a funny story actually, teaching legal systems wasn’t even a thought in my mind when I was younger, in high school I wanted to go in the medical field, so I was a biology major my first year of college and then I switched my major to a pre business track with a duel major in communication, and then I said I didn’t want to do business so I switched my major again my junior year to political science and communications, and so after college I decided that I wanted to be a teacher, but originally when I was out of college, I didn’t really know what I wanted to do, and my mom remembered that there was a county near us hiring teachers, and she recommended that I apply. So, I started working at a pre k / kindergarten school only and I absolutely loved it, I did that for about a year before I moved to Florida, and when I moved down here I decided teaching was something I was more passionate about, and since I was a political science major, social studies was right up my ally so I applied for a high-school position and I got it. I was pretty stoked about it, I worked with kids my entire life, and I knew that would be the field I would go in,” Zalcman said.