The Impact of Remote Teaching in Teachers’ Motivation: In Time Pandemic COVID-19

Abstract

When we first heard talking about COVID-19, nobody could foresee a pandemic with such giant proportions. No organization or institution was ready to face the natural effects that result from social distance and isolation schools that in the majority didn’t have the necessary support to provide immediate remote teaching or distance teaching. In the presence of a transition to remote emergency teaching, it is important to understand the impact it had on the motivation of basic and secondary school teachers, considering that there are already studies focusing on the impact it had on education or pupils/youngsters. To that end, a questionnaire was applied to teachers of basic and secondary education between the 3rd and the 31st of January of 2022. The results point to a decrease in the motivation of teachers during the pandemic period. Despite this matter, the interpersonal relationships existing at school, the collective and partnered work developed with teachers at the school regardless of the grade, level of education and formative option; the acknowledgment by their peers; the acknowledgment by the director, are seen as factors for the rise of teacher motivation in that time.