Abstract

PATARROYO LOPEZ, Luz Elena; SOTO BARAJAS, Maritza  and  VALDES DAVILA, Ma. Guadalupe. Challenges and lessons learned in education for future teachers arising from COVID-19. Sinéctica [online]. 2022, n.58, e1394.  Epub Aug 08, 2022. ISSN 2007-7033.  https://doi.org/10.31391/s2007-7033(2022)0058-017.

COVID-19 preventive social isolation generated an educational change that affected initial teacher training. The purpose of this inquiry was to prepare a balance of both the challenges and the lessons in the transition from the face-to-face teaching-learning modality to the distance teaching-learning modality. 53 teacher trainers were invited from eight Normal Schools in Mexico and six from Educational Campuses in the Dominican Republic -which offer a professional degree-, and a Colombia’s Superior Normal School -that grants a technological degree-. A methodology was designed that first called for dialogue in each institution, later in Mexico and the Dominican Republic, to conclude with a meeting between countries that included the Normal Superior from Colombia. On the challenges, through the Grounded Theory, the following categories were revealed: Student permanence, curriculum implementation, control of academic processes, and psychological coping and management. About the lessons: Decision-making and management, designs’ adaptation, collaborative work and support networks, and the human being at the center. This inquiry collects basic elements for possible innovations or research that academies or teaching teams they could start in response to educational change.

Keywords : initial teacher training; COVID-19; challenges; lessons.