THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE PANDEMIC IN TEACHING PRACTICE: ANALYZING TEACHERS OF A PEDAGOGY PROGRAM

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic provoked social and economic changes directly related to the lethality of the disease and the mandatory social isolation to contain the spread of the coronavirus. In education, the suspension of face-to-face classes required that teachers rapidly reformulated their teaching practices. Expertise in Information and Communication Technologies became imperative to guarantee the continuity of the educational process. This article investigates the impacts of the pandemic on the teaching practice of teachers in the Pedagogy program at Faculdade Ieducare - FIED. On method, this paper employed qualitative and quantitative approaches and it was developed through bibliographic research in SciELO, Scopus, and Google Academic databases. The study also employed online questionnaires in Google Forms, which contained objective and subjective questions. 15 teachers of the Pedagogy course at Faculdade Ieducare – FIED completed said forms. The information gathered from the participants' answers was analyzed quantitatively by descriptive statistics and it highlighted percentages, frequencies, and mean values, which were manually coded. From the data analysis, it was possible to observe that, in a short period of time, teachers adapted to the use of technologies and recognized that they were essential for their professional performance. These adjustments required that educators developed better skills and get more time available, plus reformulated their praxis, all together with other professional and personal obligations, which sometimes resulted in overload and exhaustion.