Emergency teaching compared: collaboration and technology training for resilience development in teachers

The aim of the present study is to reflect on the experiences of emergency didactics, distance education (DAD) and digitally integrated education (DDI), of primary school teachers on a regional scale (Veneto), in terms of resilience display. Several teachers answered an online questionnaire at two points in time: at the time of DaD (spring 2020 – N=494) and when DDI became more widespread (winter 2021-2022 – N=620). The participants showed resilience when facing the Covid-19 crisis: the school system resisted, albeit mostly by implementing traditional teaching set-ups, especially through DaD. Two protective factors for resilience were explored: collaboration and technological training. Their impact as protective factors on the development of teachers’ resilience proved not decisive, although slight improvements are noted between the two survey datasets.