Introduction:

Since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus a pandemic, the educative context is facing one of the greatest crises, associated with shortages and inequalities, and lack of resources, at the time of incorporating distance learning modalities by teachers and students.

Objective:

To identify the main challenges and defiance faced by the teachers in the basic education in Nuevo León, Mexico, from March to June 2020.

Method:

A descriptive exploratory quantitative research was carried out. As sample, 548 teachers were involved in the study, selected by voluntary non-probabilistic sampling. A survey questionnaire was applied and reliability tests and Minitab 19 and SPSS 21 statistical packages were used for the phase of analysis.

Results:

From the teacher´s perspective, the challenges found were categorized according to their own role, based on the factors observed on their students, such as, the socio-affective, technological, communicative, pedagogical and academic problems.

Conclusions:

Problems found were highly diverse, ranging from the teacher's behavior to the student´s performance. The strengths and areas of opportunities that afflict the Mexican education system were identified, as well as the need to assume the commitment of education in, by and for the media, highlighting the importance of teaching in the digital age.

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