Vivência dos professores de química em período de pandemia: um olhar para o ensino superior

Abstract

With the Covid-19 pandemic, everyone was faced with one of the most adverse situations in recent times. Soon new forms of coexistence had to be rethought, education being one of them. So, knowing how this moment in higher education took place is of paramount importance. Therefore, this work sought to know the experience of higher education professors in times of pandemic, having as target audience of the research the professors of the Department of Chemistry at UFPB. In this quanti-qualitative research, we had the participation of 10 active professors from the Department of Chemistry at UFPB. As a data collection instrument, a questionnaire was applied containing objective and subjective questions in order to better understand how this experience of teachers with the period of Emergency Remote Teaching (ERE) was. With the results obtained, it was possible to observe that the teachers reported an inc rease in the workload in preparing classes, little preparation for the remote teaching system, in addition to the difficulty of not being able to positively assess the students. There was a lack of interaction between students and teachers. Most of the participating professors did not have specific training to work better in the ERE. However, they consider that the situation caused by the pandemic provided a challenge and overcoming in the teaching performance, thus leaving a learning experience. Given the above, this work is a source of important reports for further research involving the topic addressed in the context of chemistry teaching.