An Affiliate Shares Its Journey through the Pandemic

ABSTRACT

Amy Nyeholt, eighth-grade English teacher and curriculum coordinator of English language arts grades 6-8 for Pennsylvania Cyber, is also NCTE Region 2 Representative for the its Standing Committee on Affiliates. On this, Nyeholt said, A lot of conversation surrounded ways of connecting teachers in the state to one another for support and encouragement, as well as best practices for remote learning and more. Online teaching has been a challenging transition for the teachers who are used to moving around the classroom and giving individual, personalized attention to each student. No, our conference chairs who put this theme together did not have knowledge that a worldwide pandemic was going to hit, but if we understand anything about education and our students today, it is that they face incredible pressure from a wide variety of areas-many of them unforeseen.