NEW CHALLENGES TO THE SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN ONLINE TEACHING IN THE PANDEMIC COVID 19 SCENARIOS

Abstract

The global impact of widespread pandemic Coronavirus has changed the normal system of
every sector and all are in a critical crisis to overcome the situation. In this post-COVID 19
pandemic situation, though all the sectors gradually open their shutters, educational institutions
are still under lockdown. If students and teachers are forced to stay at their homes
and pupils remain detached from formal education, then what would be the destiny of the
nation? Though almost every sector faces some problems to conduct the system smoothly, it
becomes a new challenge to the educational personnel especially to the teachers to turn the
formal face to face set up into an online teaching-learning environment with the help of digital
technology. The present paper focuses on the challenges that especially the secondary school
teachers face to run the online classes in this critical scenario. A survey was conducted on
the teachers through telephonic conversation and video calling and some with a face-to-face conversation with semi-structured schedule and from various literature reviews, the data have been analyzed qualitatively. The major findings of the study are networking issues, lack of digital devices, teaching and assessment method, lack of ICT training, digital division, handling
disable children, communication gap, inappropriate home environment, students’ indifferent attitude and lack of emotional bonding that the teachers are facing and finally the recommendation that the teachers and the stakeholders should follow to wear this nomenclature to cope up with this situation.