First Midterm: Teaching Skills for English Language Secondary-School Teachers from General Rodríguez

Section 1: The Research Proposal

The COVID-19 pandemic aroused teachers' necessity to switch from face-to-face lessons inside real tangible classrooms to remote ones in unknown (for them) online platforms. English secondary-school teachers from the outskirts of Buenos Aires, specifically from General Rodríguez, seem to have struggled with this change of modality. Most teachers express their necessity to learn more about how to respond to the specific needs that arise while using virtual platforms since these do not correspond to the same necessities they are used to dealing with in physical classrooms. To find answers to this issue, the following questions will serve as a guide:

1.     What does the Ministry of Education provide English language teachers from Escuela Secundaria 6 from General Rodríguez with to guarantee successful remote teaching?  

2.    What difficulties do English teachers from General Rodríguez face when trying to devise strategies to teach remotely?

3.    Which are the most critical skills that English teachers from the school can acquire to face the new demands arisen by the COVID-19 pandemic? Where can they acquire them?

The objective of this research work is to detect and analyse the reasons why English teachers from General Rodríguez seem to have faced difficulties while switching from face-to-face lessons to the virtual environment.

Section 2: Annotated Bibliographies

 English Teaching and COVID-19

Thumvichit, A. (2021). English Language Teaching in Times of Crisis: Teacher Agency in Response to the Pandemic-forced Online Education. Teaching English with Technology, 21(2), 14-37. http://www.tewtjournal.org 

It states the difficulties that arose due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the educational field. It exposes the realities of a small group of English teachers when trying to apply the approaches they used in physical classrooms in virtual environments. It compiles testimonials from English teachers regarding what they did to improve their English language teaching

Suggestions to face the COVID-19 pandemic while teaching

Uro, G., Lai, D., & Alsace, T. (2020). Supporting English Learners in the COVID-19 Crisis. In Part 3: Considerations and Recommendations for Supporting ELs in the 2020-21 School Year (pp. 12-30). Council of the Great City Schools. https://www.cgcs.org/cms/lib/DC00001581/Centricity/domain/35/publication%20docs/CGCS_ELL%20and%20COVID_web_v2.pdf

It provides a guide with suggestions and approaches specially developed for teachers to face the COVID-19 pandemic. It covers the different areas in which English lessons can take place, such as virtual environments. It acknowledges that teachers, learners and their families have experienced extreme distress with the closure of schools and the economic crisis and tries to provide solutions to diminish those consequences of the pandemic.


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