Teacher Survey: Remote Teaching Before and During the COVID-19 Crisis

In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic caused a shutdown of the Israeli education system, with more than 2 million children confined to their homes. The education system moved to remote teaching at that time. At the end of the first lockdown, the Taub Center along with the Israeli Teachers Association conducted a survey among teaching staff to clarify their opinions on the issue of remote teaching and to understand how their training courses and previous knowledge of the subject helped them, how much they had used remote teaching prior to the crisis and during the lockdown, and how much preparation time online teaching took them. An analysis of their answers indicates the limited tools that teachers and preschool teachers had before the outbreak of the pandemic and the large amount of preparation time needed to prepare online lessons versus face-to-face lessons, even among those with remote teaching experience.