![WSPN’s Annika Martins and Maddie Zajac explore the athletic life of senior Annabelle Zhang through her badminton career. “This [photo] is me and my former partner after we won the 2022 junior nationals mixed doubles category,” Zhang said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/IMG_6629-1200x900.jpg)
In WSPN’s podcast Friday Fast Five, reporters will interview staff and students around Wayland High School and ask them five quick questions. This week, WSPN’s Jane Tardif and Jillian Mele talk to former WHS student and current teacher Joel Mode about his teaching experience and other interesting facts.
0:00 – Intro
0:21 – What is your name, position and how long have you been at Wayland High School?
0:35 – What made you want to become a teacher? Have you always been a teacher and why did you choose Wayland?
1:05 – What is your favorite part about Wayland?
1:19 – What would you say the biggest difference is between when you went to high school here and now? Do you enjoy teaching at the place you went to school?
2:22 – What is it like being a wrestling coach at Lincoln Sudbury and a teacher at Wayland?
2:47 – Is it difficult to balance that?
2:58 – Outro
