Experience of Primary School Teachers and Subject Teachers with Distance Learning due to the Corona Virus Pandemic (COVID-19)

Abstract

The most important feature of modern distance learning is the change of student position, which is reflected in the fact that students, although physically separated from the teacher and other students, can communicate with the teacher and cooperate with other students easily. Following the decision of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, the direct teaching in the classroom was stopped and online teaching was introduced. The research sought to determine the experiences of the primary school and subject teachers in relation to the implementation of distance teaching and learning. The total number of 534 teachers from primary schools from the territory of the AP Vojvodina participated in the research, and a questionnaire was created for the needs of the research. The results show that the respondents generally have a positive view of teaching via TV, but they believe that the way of organizing such lessons and the quality of the lessons should be improved. On average, the respondents expressed the view that the lower-grade students can follow the classes on TV more easily than others. The respondents singled out Viber and e-mail as the most useful means of communication with students and parents. The most common type of material distributed to students is textual material with an additional learning content. Based on the obtained results, it can be concluded that the experiences of teachers are very diverse in terms of different aspects of the implementation of distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keywords

• distance learning
• teaching via tv
• viber
• moodle
• google classroom.