A resilience path for English teachers during emergency online teaching
Abstract
"Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) takeover education in many places of the world during the 2020 health crisis. However, ERT raised new concerns about teachers ́ professional development and the personal resources they have used to solve challenges for the benefit of their students. This article attempts to explore howELT college teachers developedresilience during Emergency RemoteTeaching in 2020.Thisqualitative survey research analyzed the answers to a questionnaire to enhance the participants ́ insights and reflections regarding the changes they have been required to make during the pandemic. The participants were two groups of ELT teachers; one was formed by fifteen Mexican college teachers and the second was a group of twelve international college teachers. Their paths duringERT were framed in a common pattern of Realization, Reflection, Reinvention,and Resilience which illustrated how teacherscopedwith a change of perspective towards education, the interaction with students,and the appropriacy of materials but also with their own emotions and their wellbeing. The articleconcludes with some insights to raise awareness of the Resilience path that teachers around the world have followed as a way to overcome the challenges imposed by COVID-19".