Elementary school teachers' perspectives about learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT: How did school closures affect student access to education and learning rates during the COVID-19 pandemic? How did teachers adapt to the new instructional contexts? To answer these questions, we distributed an online survey to Elementary School teachers (N = 911) in the United States and Canada at the end of the 2020-2021 school year. Around 85.8% of participants engaged in remote instruction, and nearly half had no previous experience teaching online. Overall, this transition was challenging for most teachers and more than 50% considered they were not as effective in the classroom during remote instruction and reported not being able to deliver all the curriculum expected for their grade. Despite the widespread access to digital technologies in our sample, nearly 65% of teachers observed

SUBMITTER: Alvarez-Rivero A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10507123 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature