Teachers’ Opinions on Students’ Adaptation to School after the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

Education-teaching activities have been affected by many natural or man-made factors from past to present and have been interrupted. The biggest of these interruptions was caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which emerged in China and caused a deadly pneumonia, and education activities were interrupted all over the world and students started education with distance education systems. With the reduction of the effects of the disease, students returning to school faced various problems. It is important to determine what these problems are and to take measures to eliminate them. Therefore, the aim of this study is to determine the opinions of secondary school teachers about the adaptation of students to school after the COVID-19 pandemic. For this purpose, the opinions of nine secondary school teachers from various branches were tried to be determined with semi-structured interview questions by using a case study design, one of the qualitative research methods. The reliability analyzes of the data obtained from the teacher interviews were carried out and the findings were presented in the form of codes and themes. The main problems that the teachers saw in the students after the pandemic were identified as incompatibility, slowness in reading, writing, and understanding, not obeying the classroom rules, lack of attention, and difficulties in establishing social interaction. Various suggestions were made according to the results obtained within the scope of the study.