). Opinions of School Administrators about the Educational Impact of the COVID-19

Autor: Topcu, Zühal
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Popis: Purpose: This research aimed to reveal the views of school administrators regarding the transformation of the COVID-19pandemic on the basic concepts of education.Methodology: This research was designed according to the descriptive phenomenological pattern, which is a type ofqualitative research approach. The study group of the research consisted of 43 primary and secondary school administrators.These were school administrators who attended distance education for at least 6 months during the spring 2019-2020 andfall 2020-2021 outbreak during the COVID-19 outbreak.Conclusions: Data were collected with a semi-structured interview form. The obtained data were analyzed with thedescriptive and content analysis technique. These themes were the transforming school consisted of the main themes fromthe traditional classroom to a digital classroom, changing student, teacher competencies, changing course material. As aresult of the research, it was concluded that the concepts of school and classroom ceased to be a physical space after COVID19, that the teacher will not lose its importance in education after COVID-19, and even gained more importance, and thedigital material in education was more technological.Suggestions: According to the findings obtained as a result of the research, the changes COVID-19 has made in education canpersist after the pandemic. For this reason, while it is important to gain the competencies that will be necessary for teachersand schools to keep up with this change, continuous development and transformation should be the basic roadmap
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