The Impact of COVID-19 on Teacher Practice: Before, During, and Now

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session 6
  In Roundtable Session: Research and Practice in Catholic Education

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted all schools in the United States and the world, but in particular, urban schools. The nature of this crisis has brought new challenges to urban Catholic schools. This research employs a mixed-methods approach as quantitative (survey) data and qualitative (open-ended, narratives) data are used to identify and understand how 31 educators made and continue to make sense of the impact of COVID-19 on their instructional practice, self-efficacy, student learning, school mission, and their perceptions of educational inequity in the urban contexts where they teach. A key aim of this paper is to provide some examples of the current considerations and practices that have emerged from urban Catholic schools in response to the pandemic.

Authors

• Kierstin M Giunco, Boston College

• Audrey Anne Friedman, Boston College

• Myra Rosen-Reynoso, Boston College

• Cristina Joan Hunter, Boston College

• Charles Tower Cownie, Boston College