The Education Scene of the Schools in Latin America and the Return to the Classroom in the Context of COVID-19

ABSTRACT

Although the education systems have reflected inequalities in terms of time of teaching, quality management, digital skills, as well as the state of the infrastructure of the educational facilities;the pandemic has revealed new challenges in the inequality of distance education in times of COVID-19. Consequently, when choosing a teaching strategy where virtuality became the primary means of connection in the relationship between teacher-student-family. State and local governments to take on the challenge of Latin America and the increase of the education gap, with strategies and recommendations on the practice of teaching and thus to decide how and when to reopen schools. To change this reality, the investment in education to improve the spaces and technology platforms should be increased, depending on the criterion of equity and collaboration in order to advance in the field of education at the regional level. Then, the digital skills of teachers to face the new scenario and the actions of training to be undertaken;will be part of curricular adaptations, program design and educational resources, emerging for the return to the classroom. Copyright © 2022, Anka Publishers. All rights reserved.