Bloggers choice 2: Highs and Lows

 For my second bloggers choice and final blog post, I will be reflecting on the highs and lows of this semester, my final semester at Loyola. Student teaching came with many highs and some lows as well but overall I enjoyed my student teaching experience. I will begin with the lows and then end on the highs. The elephant in the room is the biggest low which is remote learning because of COVID-19. I never imagined that my student teaching experience would be like this. The techniques and strategies that I had been studying for 3 years had to be reimagined. It was hard towards the end when I felt like there were only so many different types of activities I could do. After the 5th nearpod, 12th pear deck, and 8th article reading, it gets a little bland. I wish I could have done more group work but that was hard for my ESL students online. There were many highs though. I got to use a lot more technology that I can use once schools go back to normal. The best high was coaching the volleyball team. During a normal semester, I would work at Cudahy Library but it was closed due to COVID-19. This caused me to search for a new job. So I got a job coaching volleyball at Mather. That was the best decision I made all semester. It gave me so much joy to coach, I learned a lot about the school, and I was able to be apart of the school community.

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