Pedagogical Content Knowledge: Teachers' Competence Towards Learners with Special Needs in Online Learning

Abstract

The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has had a tremendous impact on students, schools, and teachers. Learning for students is carried out in a limited manner through the agenda: work from home, study from home and worship at home as a form of preventing the spread of the virus. The limitations of online learning pose many challenges, including for teachers who still have to pass on their knowledge to students. Therefore, it is equally important to highlight how the pedagogical competence of teachers in improving the learning process during the Covid-19 pandemic. This study used a quantitative approach followed by a cross-sectional questionnaire. The sampling was done randomly in this study. The sample consisted of 623 teachers from 3 areas in West Java, namely, Bandung, Tasikmalaya, and Bekasi. The results of this study found that teachers still have difficulty in providing an effective learning process to accommodate the diverse needs of students, both in terms of content, methods, approaches, curriculum, educational services provided in the learning process as well as skills in the use of information technology. in today's digital era.