Teachers’ adaptability to online education during COVID-19
Teachers’ adaptability to online education during COVID-19

Summary/Abstract: Nowadays, the world is facing a pandemic that affects millions of people, leading to serious illness and social dysfunction. This poses a threat not only to the population, but also to the economic and social fields. The negative impact on these sectors is represented by economic instability and restrictions on social activities, in particular by the closure of schools and the launch of online courses that affect the educational environment. Therefore, the central theme of this research is the capacity and level of teachers in Romanian education to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic situation. Due to the restrictions imposed to limit the spread of coronavirus, this has brought changes to the level of the education system, being performed in an online format. The entire education system has faced difficulties such as school dropout, social inequities, lack of access to technology and the internet, lack of digital skills, transition to the online learning system, poor health conditions in school institutions, even the problem of resuming or closing the school year. Thus, in this research we analysed the level of adaptability of teachers, identifying the adaptability differences between urban and rural environments or between the levels of education at which they teach. We also identified the need to readapt the subject to be taught in the virtual environment and how much of the personal time they allocate to prepare the courses taught remotely, but above all we determined the obstacles that teachers encounter in teaching and conducting courses with students during the coronavirus period.

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