The impact of emergency remote teaching on teachers"™ work in the COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

Objective: Understand the potentialities and weaknesses of adapting the new teaching methods and the organizational process of the teachers' work. Method: This is an exploratory research, with a qualitative approach. Participants were selected by theoretical sampling from the institution's Biological and Health Sciences center and the period of response collection was during the months of September and October 2020. In addition, the data were organized and analyzed using the Bardin method. Results: The research has 49 participants, with ages ranging from 28 to 67, 34 female and 15 male. Analyzing the answers, four categories were identified: Recognizing the teachers' main adaptations; identifying the student/teacher relationship; evaluating the impacts on academic-professional training and identifying positive points of remote teaching. Conclusion: The student-teacher interaction has changed due to the distance, however, there have been other advances such as the use of new technologies.