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The Attitudes of Croatian Teachers Regarding the Challenges of Classroom Management During COVID-19 Pandemic

COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the business and personal life of each and every individual. Every business sector had to adapt to the “new normal” and change their ways of work. In 2020, teachers substituted their physical classrooms with virtual ones, as well as the means of interaction with students, parents and colleagues from direct communication to communicating via online platforms, and they also replaced the traditional methods of teaching with those in a digital form, which required certain digital competence from teachers, students and parents as well. The aim of this research was to find out the attitudes of classroom teachers regarding the challenges of classroom management during COVID-19 pandemic. Research was conducted on 107 Croatian classroom teachers. Based on a positivist paradigm, this applied and transversal research via an online survey confirmed that the majority of teachers believed that the pandemic did not significantly affect their way of keeping pedagogical records, and that their digital competence rose to a new level than they were prior to the pandemic. The majority of teachers claimed that the pandemic period left a negative impact on the quality of teaching since a lot of students did not possess a satisfactory level of digital competence necessary for online learning. Teachers believe that they did not have trouble keeping in touch with parents and students, but the means of communication changed. Teachers developed their digital competence independently and through organized learning about digital platforms, and the most frequently used platforms for communication with both students and parents were Viber, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp, Skype and Google Classroom.

digital competence of teachers ; classroom management ; COVID-19 ; communication

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