Teacher - an Architect of Children Preschool Education During Pandemic COVID – 19

Abstract

IntroductionThe scope of researches was built around one main category, that is the category of change, which occurred in preschool education during Covid-19 period.Aim of conducted researches:The main objective was to display outcomes of conducted researches that were based on triangulated quantitative and qualitative analysis. In the article were discussed concepts of preschool teachers’ perception of changes that occurred in three categories, such as:•Functioning and organization of preschool as an institution,•Children behavior and playing activities of preschool children,•Preschool children relations among themselves and relations between educators and parents.What is more, researcher was interested in analysis of the activities that preschool educators chose to engage in and in the structure of education that preschool teachers were creating while teaching and caring for children during that specific, uncertain and not stable times. The researcher assumption was that preschool teachers were not only passive takers but also active creators of changes in preschool education what would be displayed in their views, opinions, attitudes, and assessments gathered in that specific times of pandemic and that they would respectively adapt to new and changing reality. Research material was gathered by filling the questionnaires by preschool teachers and then subsequently analysis the data. Moreover, this procedure allows teachers and educators to share their views about challenges they needed to fulfill, such as providing online preschool education. Knowledge:Preschool educators displayed reflexive, concerned and thoughtful approach toward the challenges of analysis the functioning of preschools as institutions during that difficult pandemic reality they were participating in. They noticed changes occurring in such fields as: organization of institutions; activities toward health protection of children and preschool employers; social relations; ways of teachers, children and parents work; professional development; work overload; and the sense of uncertainly of future.Teachers indicated the fields, in which they were able to constructively work out the solutions and actively adjust to new pandemic limitations regarding law, work policies, social challenges and challenges regarding health, methodic adjustments and learning new computer software.