By profession I am a professor. A professor of Pharmacy. And I have the privilege to teach the most advanced and recent generation, the Gen Z.
I teach in a metro city, probably New York of India, in Mumbai. And I am fortunate enough to teach in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) field. I love teaching my subject Pharmaceutical Chemistry or Medicinal chemistry. It deals with the science and art of medicines as molecules. drug molecules are chemicals which treats the diseases. This sounds cool, but when it comes to teaching the science of drug molecules to students it's not less than climbing Mt. Everest. Teaching chemistry of drugs is an arduous task and demands lots of patience.
The same is implied for learning the chemistry of drugs, it requires lots of hard work from students point of view. It's being estimated that for each hour attended in institute of chemistry lecture, minimum 3 hours of work is required at home. I teach medicinal chemistry course to third and final (fourth) year Bachelor of Pharmacy students and my course is of 50 Hrs duration. So for the entire course of 50 hours, students need to put 150 Hrs of self learning at home (outside institute).
Our semester on an average lasts for 16 weeks. That is 150 hrs of learning in 16 weeks. So keeping this in mind, it can be conclude that each week students need to study around 10 hours of Medicinal chemistry on their own. And I am happy to share here that Gen Z, they put this effort of 10 Hrs/Wk to learn the most difficult but the most interesting subject in pharmacy curriculum.
There is no substitute for hard work, especially in learning STEM. Gen Z, I had thought would not put this 10hrs/wk efforts to learn the chemistry subject. But, to my positive surprise they not only put the required hours of efforts but also learned the essence of chemistry. Gen Z can certainly do hard work. If they understand the importance of action they are willing to put that hard work.
Besides this, I found that: Gen Z don't fear of experimenting, they are eager and are bold. They are certainly tech savvy and are close bonded. They believe in true relationship and are ready to help when needed. They are cheerful and young and alive. Full of ideas and doubts. They believe world is their play ground. They know how to be polite and have manners. India is my country and mannerisms is common in each house, however, millennials have not thrown away the manners but are still honouring it. That's a good thing.
Gen Z have strong eagerness to learn more and willingness to achieve more. Learning from teaching to Gen Z is a long story and I will certainly post the part II of this topic soon.
Till then, happy me signing off...
I teach in a metro city, probably New York of India, in Mumbai. And I am fortunate enough to teach in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) field. I love teaching my subject Pharmaceutical Chemistry or Medicinal chemistry. It deals with the science and art of medicines as molecules. drug molecules are chemicals which treats the diseases. This sounds cool, but when it comes to teaching the science of drug molecules to students it's not less than climbing Mt. Everest. Teaching chemistry of drugs is an arduous task and demands lots of patience.
The same is implied for learning the chemistry of drugs, it requires lots of hard work from students point of view. It's being estimated that for each hour attended in institute of chemistry lecture, minimum 3 hours of work is required at home. I teach medicinal chemistry course to third and final (fourth) year Bachelor of Pharmacy students and my course is of 50 Hrs duration. So for the entire course of 50 hours, students need to put 150 Hrs of self learning at home (outside institute).
Our semester on an average lasts for 16 weeks. That is 150 hrs of learning in 16 weeks. So keeping this in mind, it can be conclude that each week students need to study around 10 hours of Medicinal chemistry on their own. And I am happy to share here that Gen Z, they put this effort of 10 Hrs/Wk to learn the most difficult but the most interesting subject in pharmacy curriculum.
There is no substitute for hard work, especially in learning STEM. Gen Z, I had thought would not put this 10hrs/wk efforts to learn the chemistry subject. But, to my positive surprise they not only put the required hours of efforts but also learned the essence of chemistry. Gen Z can certainly do hard work. If they understand the importance of action they are willing to put that hard work.
Besides this, I found that: Gen Z don't fear of experimenting, they are eager and are bold. They are certainly tech savvy and are close bonded. They believe in true relationship and are ready to help when needed. They are cheerful and young and alive. Full of ideas and doubts. They believe world is their play ground. They know how to be polite and have manners. India is my country and mannerisms is common in each house, however, millennials have not thrown away the manners but are still honouring it. That's a good thing.
Gen Z have strong eagerness to learn more and willingness to achieve more. Learning from teaching to Gen Z is a long story and I will certainly post the part II of this topic soon.
Till then, happy me signing off...
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