Teacher training and educational practices adopted in the pandemic: difficulties and challenges

ABSTRACT

This study aims to analyze emergency distance learning offered in teacher training courses, based on existing literature. More specifically, it seeks to identify the challenges and possibilities of emergency distance learning and teaching/pedagogical practices that may prevail/remain after the coronavirus pandemic in teacher training courses. This is a literature review, which considered data from the SciELO and Google Scholar databases using the following Portuguese language terms/descriptors: coronavirus pandemic, teacher training, emergency distance learning, using the logical operators “AND” and “OR” to combine the terms above. In the selection, only studies that made the full text available for consultation, published between 2020 and 2022 and that addressed the challenges and possibilities of distance learning in undergraduate education, as well as the pedagogical/didactic practices adopted for distance learning, were considered, consequently, its Description. Data were organized into three categories of analysis: challenges of remote teaching work, possibilities of remote teaching and pedagogical practices that will remain post-pandemic. With the analysis, we found challenges such as understanding the dynamics of virtual environments, precarious access to technological equipment and the Internet, as well as emotional control to work in an inadequate teaching and learning environment. As a possibility, the quality of life provided by its implementation was highlighted, with money and time savings due to the absence of displacements, the organization of new pedagogical sequences, as well as the use of an immense educational digital collection, which at the time flexibility was made available. Among the practices that may prevail in the post-pandemic are the use of the virtual learning environment, which was already something worked on in the EaD area; digital books; online assessments; and the growing appropriation of digital culture, working with methodologies such as, for example, the inverted classroom, the online laboratory, and rotation. The work does not present immutable, unquestionable data, it proposes a reflection on the teaching offered in teacher training courses.

Keywords: Coronavirus Pandemic. Teacher Training. Emergency Remote Teaching.