Prática docente e a utilização das tecnologias digitais e o ambiente virtual de aprendizagem – ava: uma análise no ensino de química em tempos de covid-19 no ano de 2021

Abstract

The present work brings to the field of research an analysis of the challenges of teaching practice in times of COVID-19. The aim is to discuss the difficulties encountered by teachers who teach the discipline of chemistry, from the Emergency Remote Teaching - ERE. The relevance of the topic lies in the impacts that social isolation has had on education, forcing the suspension of classes and challenging the school and teachers to reorganize the educational process through teaching mediated entirely by digital technologies and the virtual learning environment - VLE. Faced with this reality, working with the discipline of chemistry has become even more challenging for teachers, as it is theoretical and practical, with experimentation being a fundamental approach in teaching chemistry. The locus of the research was the Instituto Federal do Amapá - IFAP, with the objective of understanding by analyzing the practice of IFAP teachers on the intensification of digital resources in remote teaching applied to the discipline of chemistry in times of the COVID-19 pandemic in the year of 2021. The methodology adopted was the case study with a qualitative approach, which allowed exploring the phenomenon of COVID-19 in education. As a result, the complexity of teaching chemistry through ERE was observed, challenging teachers to innovate in their didactic strategies. Another evident challenge was the difficulty of teachers and students in the ERE, since not all students were able to have access to technological resources and the internet, as well as teachers had no practice with online teaching. The challenge in developing the ERE leaves educational gaps that are reflected in the students' learning deficit, becoming an indication that the study in this field is still vast for research.