TEACHING, TELEWORK AND COVID-19: TEACHER'S REINVENTION, PRESSURE AND EXHAUSTION IN QUARANTINE TIMES

Abstract

Are successions of events that are contributing to the precariousness of the teaching work, these involve since contractual, going through the excess of attributions, pressure, troubled school environment, reaching the use of their rest time for the performance of extra-classroom work. As if that were not enough, there is pressure from a fraction of society against teaching work with reactionary and negationist ideological biases. In the midst of so many professional and social eddies that the teacher is exposed to, the COVID-19 pandemic happens and the need to assign telework through remote activities and classes, leading the teacher to reinvent himself and develop a new didactic - to achieve educational objectives and basic curriculum requirements - and other functions foreign to your routine - media editing, technology mastery, service call through social networks that he was not prepared for, and with that, the increase in functions and pressure by their superiors has led to a situation of exhaustion and illness. Preventing the virus from spreading, the teacher gets sick due to demands and increased work.