Teaching Through Crisis: The Remote Education Experiences of Teachers During COVID-19 Campus Closures

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Abstract

This qualitative research study explores the experiences of teachers in the spring semester of 2020 as they remotely instructed their students due to the COVID-19 pandemic resulting in campus closures. Fourteen teachers from a variety of school contexts, such as locale and grade level, were interviewed twice individually and once in a focus group setting to relay their thoughts regarding this unprecedented event. Emergent coding of interview transcripts revealed teachers’ concerns for their students and their learning, the barriers presented due to the disconnect between them and their students, and how their competencies changed as their time with distance instruction increased.

Authors

• Karen McIntush, Texas A&M University - College Station

• Jeffrey Keese, Mercer University

• Nazneen Hyder Askari, Texas A&M University - College Station