Analysis:

This article discussed how the COVID-19 pandemic required educators to change their practices and use technology to reach and teach remote students. The article states that educators had to learn new technologies, teaching approaches, and communication strategies during the shift to “emergency remote teaching” due to the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).  They faced a number of challenges, including developing content for online spaces, learning new delivery techniques, comprehending online teaching methods, engaging parents, addressing student mental health issues, and experimenting with various and different strategies to address both synchronous and asynchronous teaching and learning. This shift was implemented in urgency and pushed by an urgent need to adjust to rapid changes in delivery. In this study, present data was collected from 265 K-12 educators in 2020, when the COVID-19 outbreak began. The researchers analyzed survey data from K-12 educators who were tasked with shifting their practice from in-person to emergency remote teaching. Teachers were able to share their firsthand experiences, insights, and lessons learned during the shift to emergency remote teaching due to the global pandemic through a series of survey questions. Research showed that educators relied on numerous areas of development, including cognitive, social, affective, and identity, to successfully navigate their new teaching situations while trying to teach online.

Reflection:

I really enjoyed reading this article, especially since this topic is fairly new. I like reading about how it was not only a struggle for student to adjust but for instructors as well. I didn’t really look at the instructors point of view until I read this article. Some instructors aren’t tech savvy to be able to just jump from in person teaching to teaching a whole group instruction through a screen. I like how the article stated that in order to prepare educators for an unpredictable future, we must provide integrated services and professional development opportunities that go beyond the development of professional knowledge and skills.

Trust, T., & Whalen, J. (2021). Emergency remote teaching with technology during the COVID-19 pandemic: using the whole teacher lens to examine educator’s experiences and insights. Educational Media International, 58(2), 145–160. https://doi.org/10.1080/09523987.2021.1930479

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09523987.2021.1930479