Implications of school closures by COVID-19 in the practices of Mexican rural teachers

Abstract

With the objective of identifying the implications in the workload and the socio-emotional challenges faced by rural teachers, as well as the consequences that, from their perspective, there were in the learning of their students during the period of school closures derived from the COVID pandemic. -19, the article obtained data from a survey applied to 194 teachers and educational figures involved in rural education. Almost 80% of the participants reported an increase in their workload compared to school years prior to the pandemic. Two problems are distinguished that affected the emotional state of the teachers: the anxiety for not having adequate means and conditions for the attention of distance education and the difficulties to organize their work time. More than 92% of those surveyed recognized that the students would have a lower level of learning compared to previous years.