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Middle School Teachers Making Sense Of Education During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Sarah A. Phillips Jan 2020

Middle School Teachers Making Sense Of Education During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Sarah A. Phillips

The Journal of Advancing Education Practice

Middle school teachers work to create an environment suitable for distance learning, promoting consistency with instruction for middle-level students during the COVID-19 pandemic. The qualitative research inquiry studied middle school teachers. Using a phenomenological study, the researcher studied how nine middle school teachers made sense of education amid interruption of normal instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic. The theory of transformative learning supported this investigation. Four themes emerged from this research: forced readjustment with teacher-student interaction and quality education, consistency using a virtual platform, middle school teachers’ methods, and middle school teachers’ instructional practices. The researcher recommends the following: challenges that …