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Lack of impetus and resistance of (Post Graduate Teacher) teaching in
stakeholders; had kept online teaching 7 different private and government
at bay. But, these desperate times have schools of Delhi. Out of 8 respondents, 6
called for desperate measures. Due to are females and 2 are males. The age of
the COVID-19 pandemic opening of respondents is between 30 to 57 years.
schools appears perilous. In Delhi at the The respondents are of varying teaching
beginning of September 2020, the total experience ranging from 3 years to 34
confirmed positive cases soared to 1.7 years. Teachers who were conducting
million and cases have been coming online classes during the lockdown and
each day (Ministry of health and family were willing to participate were chosen
welfare website). In the given scenario, as respondents for the present study.
online teaching has become the new Data collection tools
normal across all schools of Delhi.
Data collection was done using an
Research Question
online questionnaire and semi-
This study is an attempt to address the structured telephonic interviews. The
following research questions: questionnaire included 17 questions,
with 7 questions related to personal
1. What types of online teaching
practices are being followed by details about gender, classes taught,
school teachers amid the COVID-19 teaching subject, designation, etc, and
pandemic? 10 questions related to teacher’s online
teaching experiences with 2 multiple
2. What opportunities and challenges choice questions and 8 open-ended
were felt by school teachers during questions.
online teaching?
Data collection and analysis
Objectives of the study
Data collection was done during June-
1. To study the online teaching practices July 2020 from the respondents who
being followed by the teachers were taking online classes from the first
teaching primary, secondary, and week of April 2020. Thematic analysis of
senior secondary students amid the responses of the participants was done
COVID-19 pandemic. and the responses were divided into
2. 2. To identify the perceived three broad sections: online teaching
opportunities and challenges of practices of teachers, challenges faced
online teaching. and opportunities discovered which are
presented in detail in the next section.
Methodology
Analysis and interpretation
Sample of study
The 8 teacher participants are referred
The present study follows a qualitative to as T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6, T7, and T8 to
design of research. The sample of maintain anonymity. The demographic
the study includes 8 teachers. There details and general information provided
are 5 PRT (Primary Teacher), 1 TGT by the teachers are summarized in table
(Trained Graduate Teacher), 2 PGT 1.

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