Teachers Responses to the Policy of Study from Home during Pandemic Time: Exploring the unprecedented changing modes of instruction practiced in Secondary Education Henny Soepriyanti
English Department
Faculty of Teachers Training and Education
University of Mataram
Abstract
The endorsement of Government^s lock-down policy in early 2020 has changed the faces of our education system. Before the appearance of the worldwide Corona 19 pandemic, school teachers used to enjoy conventional ways of teaching. The present nationwide lock-down policy has unduly urged these teachers to move from conventional teaching to online teaching patterns. As the impact of such a shift of teaching paradigm is not much researched yet, little is known about teachers^ responses to such a demanded change of teaching practice. The purpose of this paper is to reveal teachers^ responses toward the demand of the shift of teaching practices. This research was conducted in the City of Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara. The author employs descriptive, survey research design for the purpose. Considering that the number of English teachers in state-owned high schools was relatively small, the entire population was taken as sample of the study. Data collection was done mainly via online questionnaires and telephone interviews. The data were analyzed and presented using simple statistics to account for teachers^ attitudes and responses to the new policy of teaching English through an online mode. Results of the study reveal three major categories of responses that represent teachers^ attitude toward the Policy of Study from Home, i.e. enthusiasm, perfunctory and passive resistant. Suggestions and implications are provided in detail in this paper.
