Teacher education in times of pandemic

Abstract

The teachers’ workload in Brazil is very high, and the time allocated by law for continuing education, although it exists, in practice it does not happen with the quality that it should due to countless factors. Among these factors, there is the difficulty in bringing teachers together to carry out group training. However, during the time of the pandemic, the opportunity has been created to solve the dilemma of lack of time, using remote meeting applications as a solution to the chronic problem of the difficulty for reconciling everyone's schedules. Thus, this experience report presents how a group of teachers from a municipal public child education, in a city in the south of Brazil, took advantage of the social distance imposed by the COVID19 pandemic to start solving, in the virtual environment, the problem of teacher education. The team's narratives, taken from the virtual platform, point out to the importance of a continuing educational program that takes into account the specifics of each institution. The excellent results of the online experience show the importance of rethinking spaces and times, so that, in fact, the training processes are carried out.