Technology Disruption and Teacher’s Motivation in Online Classes: Case Study XYZ School during COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia

Abstract

COVID-19 that hit Indonesia quite hard pushed more than 68 million students and around 4 million teachers to move their teaching and learning online. Technology disruptions couldn't be avoided, and they could be in the form of the connection and other things such as class preparation and management. The new form of learning caused quite some hassle that pushed teachers and students to cooperate and adapt to it. Teachers have a hard time motivating their students to keep going and keep their learning spirit. This, however, caused teachers to spend extra time preparing for materials, searching for the best class management method also affecting their teaching motivation and spirit. This research tries to determine how technology disruptions during online classes could affect teachers' teaching motivation and spirit also what could be the possible causes. The qualitative approach with the case study method is conducted by doing an in-depth interview with four experienced teachers using purposive sampling and comparing the result with previous research. This study found that online class is quite a time consuming and it's pretty challenging to do the class management, especially in big classes. Lack of human presence and direct interaction also affect teacher's motivation during teaching online. However, it only affects their motivation on a particular task instead of the basis of being a teacher itself.