Teachers' perceptions about emergency remote teaching: initial implementation process

Abstract

With the COVID-19 pandemic, classes began to be held remotely, raising the need to use various resources, digital platforms, in addition to adapting teachers and students to remote teaching. Thus, we investigated the main impacts of this new way of teaching and learning, in the view of teachers who are working in remote teaching, the main challenges and strategies used in this period. The research data were collected through the application of an online questionnaire, answered by 106 participants. The results indicate that most teachers already used DICT in their face-to-face classes, but new digital resources and new demands for education emerged, which led to the search for improvements in relation to methodological and technological aspects regarding their use. In addition, in remote teaching, not all students had access to the internet and technological devices in their homes. Therefore, teachers needed to seek alternatives to carry out the teaching process. It is understood that this was a time of different experiences and many changes in Education that demand the need to reflect on the teaching and learning process in activities developed in different times and spaces, using different methodologies and digital resources.