Remote Teaching in the Pandemic caused by COVID-19: Perceptions of teachers at a countryside school
Temas em Educ. e Saúde, Araraquara, v. 19, n. 00, e023011, 2023. e-ISSN: 2526-3471
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26673/tes.v19i00.18719 18
highlight whether they participated in any formation activities to work with remote teaching
and digital technologies. Your records are enlightening:
The municipality's education department always taught us about the
prerogatives that we would work on. Every day, if we had any questions, we
could get in touch with the institution's pedagogical coordinator, so on the
pedagogical side, we did have support, of course, a little deficient, as no one
was used to this type of remote teaching, but we did have support both by the
municipal education department and the institution. Regarding any training
and specific formation to work with remote teaching and use technologies, we
didn't have it! Because we didn't have this advanced technology, what we had
was basic guidance on how to use a cell phone, but we didn't have any
practical teaching on how to work with remote teaching and use digital
technologies (Teacher “A”, School Unit Amarildo de Souza, Felipe Guerra –
RN, 2022, our translation).
We did receive pedagogical support, both from the secretariat and the school.
Both always guided us and gave us the support we needed to deal with the
situation. Our headquarters and pedagogical support took place at the
municipality's education department with the school's director and
pedagogical coordinator, we went to the headquarters and met, and they
guided us in every possible way. I did not participate in any training to work
with remote teaching, what I did receive was some guidance on how we were
going to work and use the technologies we had, which in our case was the cell
phone (Teacher “B”, School Unit Antônio Amarildo de Souza, Felipe Guerra
– RN, 2022, our translation).
Yes, the education department and the school worked very responsibly during
this period, supporting our pedagogical work. On the school's side, the
coordinator and director supported us with guidance on planning and
teaching remotely, which was little help, as everyone was in the same boat
with the same difficulties. As for training and practice to teach classes, I did
not participate, I had to struggle with many challenges to learn to familiarize
myself with technologies, I did my work based on past guidance and with the
tools I had (Teacher “C”, School Unit X Professor Antônio Amarildo de
Souza, Felipe Guerra – RN, 2022, our translation).
The teachers' statements are similar, as all three agreed that the institution and the
municipality's education department supported, pedagogically, with guidance on how they
would organize themselves to develop remote teaching. We know that remote teaching brought
a new perspective to thinking about educational processes, students and teachers needed support
to deal with the recurring uncertainties of the pandemic, and from what teachers recorded, we
observed that there was this support in the commitment of school management, especially the
director and the pedagogical coordinator who sought to provide as much support as possible,
under existing conditions, so that the rural school, teachers and students could resist in the
context of the pandemic caused by COVID-19.
Regarding continued training aimed at remote teaching and digital technologies,