TEACHERS’ STRATEGIES IN COPING WITH PEDAGOGICAL PROCESS IN ENGLISH INSTRUCTION AT SMAN 10 FAJAR HARAPAN DURING PANDEMIC COVID-19

Abstract

Since pandemic covid-19, the government and the minister of education in Indonesia, including Aceh, decided to take all activities at school to be closed. The classroom learning activity was being shifted to online learning activity. This condition made teachers and students looked for various ways that can make online learning effective. This qualitative research was conducted to see the strategies of English teacher of SMAN 10 Fajar Harapan in applying online teaching and learning activity. In order to get the information, the researcher conducted an online interview with the teacher. The interview guidelines contained some questions related to designing instructions, developing content and material, preparing and building learners group, and designing evaluation. In addition, the researcher also asked about teacher’s perception related to education during pandemic. The researchers found that the strategy used by the teacher was very well planned. It also found that teaching during pandemic was hard and not easy for the teacher. For the future research, hopefully another researcher could conduct a study about the suggestions program or application for teacher to teach online, in way to help the teacher to find innovative ideas to apply during online learning.

Keywords: Education during Pandemic Covid-19, online learning, learning and teaching strategy.