Lessons Learned for Teacher Education: Challenges of Teaching Online Classes During COVID-19, What Can Pre-Service Teachers Tell Us?

Abstract

The rapid outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic was just sudden and dramatic The current study aimed to identify the challenges facing pre-service English teachers while teaching online classes during school closure due to covid-19 in the spring 2020 and the lessons learned for teacher education Data were collected through multiple methods, namely semi-structured interviews, with five English pre-service teachers Inductive and deductive analysis followed, and the study found the followings:1) there are six significant challenges faced by pre-service English teachers: a) nature of remote teaching, b) content delivery and limit, c) teaching styles, d) online assessment methods, and e) students’ interests and differences;2) pre-service teachers felt lost, anxious, and enter survival stage;3) focusing on effective integration of technology and developing more aspects of teachers’ competence are just some of the lessons learned for teacher education The study offers some lessons learned for the novel experience of researchers, teachers and other educational personnel