ABSTRACT
This study aimed to understand the continuing education of literacy teachers in the context of remote education, established from the pandemic of COVID-19. Thereby, it conducted a survey in the virtual environment with the application of a semi-structured questionnaire elaborated in the Google forms application, directed to teachers from schools that works in the states of Paraiba and Pernambuco. For the analyzes and discussions, the responses were obtained from eleven literacy teachers and used as an inclusion criterion, which makes up a total of 96 survey respondents. The qualitative analysis of themes in the teachers' testimonies indicates that the students' learning conditions and the teachers' exhaustive working conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic, in convergence with the lack of strategic planning and infrastructure of the education networks, showed as limiting elements of the continuing education of literacy teachers to work in the remote teaching model.