Lebanese Teachers’ Attitudes During Covid-19 Context

Roger Loutfi^{1, 2,} , Bachir EL Murr¹ and Rola Assaf³

¹Faculty of Economic Science and Business, Lebanese University, Lebanon

²Secretary General of The Lebanese Association of Certified Public Accountants, LACPA

³Business School, Lebanese International University, Beirut, Lebanon

Cite this paper:
Roger Loutfi, Bachir EL Murr and Rola Assaf. Lebanese Teachers’ Attitudes During Covid-19 Context. Journal of Business and Management Sciences. 2024; 12(3):130-143. doi: 10.12691/jbms-12-3-3

Abstract

COVID mutants are still challenging the education field, forcing stakeholders to change their conducts and attitudes. In fact, COVID-19 enforced students and teachers to stay sticked at home. With the national lockdown and closing campuses, teachers had no other choice than fronting unfamiliar domestic work atmosphere, moving from classrooms into online and virtual learning spaces, obliged to customize with new methods, materials and digital technologies. Subsequent back to classroom framework also imposes new sanitary and social distancing conditions leading to new teaching and learning habits. The paper tries to highlight all advantageous and disadvantageous factors that might affect the teaching performance under online and offline teaching modes, as an attempt to help stakeholders adopt the best choices in case of new challenging pandemic threats.

Keywords:
Covid-19 Impact online and classroom teaching teaching performance

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