Teacher training and support during pandemic Covid-19: the case of General Jonas Žemaitis military academy of Lithuania

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ENThe COVID-19 pandemic, which challenged higher education institutions to organize the teaching process, makes one shift from face-to-face to distance learning, ensuring the highest level of education. The study aimed to determine the attitudes of teachers toward their readiness to teach students at a distance and the support of the institution during a pandemic. Teaching at a distance faced great challenges for teachers, who became responsible for keeping students motivated to learn. The pandemic forced teachers to adapt their lectures to distance learning in a short period by implementing distance learning technologies that were not relevant to many before the pandemic and to experience the positive and negative aspects of distance learning. Distance learning has become a much more demanding effort and emotional burden than classroom training. On the other hand, an educational establishment is challenged to meet the needs of teachers working remotely, to make their activities purposeful, to develop their potential, to promote cooperation at work, and not to lose the attitude of teachers’ organizational identity. Higher education institutions have a responsibility to promptly assist teachers in securing the acquisition of challenging new competencies and other necessary support to equip teachers with the knowledge and skills they need to perform their tasks effectively both in the audience and in society now and in the future. Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic; teacher training for distance learning; institutional support for teacher; distance learning study. [From the publication]

• Edukologija / Education
• Vadyba / Management