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THE IMPACT OF EMERGENCY REMOTE TEACHING ON SCIENCE PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS AT THE WEST UNIVERSITY OF TIMIȘOARA

Summary/Abstract: According to the UNESCO reports; the health crisis caused by SARS-COV-2 affected more than 1.7 billion students from around 150 countries worldwide this past spring. Teachers at all levels of education were forced to switch to digital resources and tools and were required to transition and adapt promptly to remote teaching. This transition took place also within the Teacher Training Department at the West University of Timisoara. Teachers together with their students had to find pragmatic; technology-based; creative solutions that would allow them to carry out the remote teaching; learning and assessment activities at a level that would ensure the development of the desired skills and the achievement of the desired learning outcomes.This paper explores the way in which the teaching; learning; and assessment activities have been adapted for emergency remote teaching at the West University of Timisoara. We focus on the first and second levels of the Teacher Training Program offered to future science teachers at this university.We present the adopted strategies; communication tools; and the applications used to deliver the proposed teaching; learning; and assessment activities. Furthermore; we identify the most common technological and pedagogical difficulties encountered throughout these activities; as well as the future science teachers’ concerns regarding the transition to remote teaching. We conclude that the health crisis has had both negative and positive influences on the training process of future science teachers at the West University of Timisoara; providing a unique opportunity that allowed both teachers and their students to jointly discover effective remote teaching-learning-assessment approaches.

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