Predictors of First-Grade Teachers’ Teaching-Related Time During COVID-19

Exposure to teachers and teaching-related activities is vital for young children’s learning. When COVID-19 closed schools, teachers responded with a mix of live- and prerecorded lessons and one-on-one communication with students, which necessitated shifts in planning time. The current study identifi...

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Published inAERA open Vol. 8
Main Authors Johnson, Anna D., Schochet, Owen N., Castle, Sherri, Horm, Diane, Phillips, Deborah A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.01.2022
Sage Publications Ltd
SAGE Publishing
Subjects
COVID-19
Distance learning
Elementary school teachers
Online instruction
COVID-19
remote teaching
elementary school
instructional time
teachers
low-income
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Summary:Exposure to teachers and teaching-related activities is vital for young children’s learning. When COVID-19 closed schools, teachers responded with a mix of live- and prerecorded lessons and one-on-one communication with students, which necessitated shifts in planning time. The current study identifies pre-COVID predictors of time teachers devoted to each of these teaching-related activities to illuminate actionable levers for supporting educators during widespread educational disruption. Teachers with higher prepandemic job commitment devoted more overall time to pandemic-induced remote teaching. Teachers’ prepandemic executive functioning and observed classroom instructional and organizational quality—features of successful teachers during normal times—predicted more during-pandemic time remote teaching, while teacher older age and having more high-needs students was associated with less remote teaching time. These results contribute to an emerging literature that spotlights potential promising avenues for supporting teachers via professional development during normal times as well as in future widespread educational disruptions.
ISSN:2332-8584
2332-8584
DOI:10.1177/23328584211067798