Estrategias y retos para el seguimiento educativo en primarias ante la contingencia covid-19 en Sonora, México

Abstract

The current health emergency and the prolonged confinement derived by the COVID-19 has disrupted the various areas of life, including education; causing a readjustment in the teaching-learning strategies for the continuity of the school year before the suspension of face-to-face classes. The general objective of the research was to identify the educational strategies used by primary-level teachers for school monitoring in the face of the covid-19 pandemic, as well as to state the main challenges experienced in such a process in the state of Sonora, Mexico. The research approach was qualitative, exploratory, an online questionnaire with open questions was applied to 42 public elementary school teachers. The main results show that among the strategies used it was through the establishment of distance education through digital platforms, video conferences and the use of social networks. In the case of students who did not have access to the Internet or computer equipment, calls were made to parents, monitoring of the television program Aprende en Casa and delivery of printed material; as well as continuing with traditional strategies such as the evidence portfolio, textbook exercises, and tests. The main challenges were the search for communication channels for those students in vulnerable situations; as well as the difficulties with the parents in following up on the tasks and exercises of their sons and daughters. It concludes on the importance of continuous training for the use of ICT, the involvement of parents in the educational process and on the part of the State to facilitate technological resources to students and teachers.