Challenges and Coping Strategies of Students during Educational Disruptions: Designing Resilient Learning Plans

Numerous research studies have been conducted to investigate the extent of changes and challenges experienced during the educational disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. These studies have generated a vast array of insights that could be utilized in planning and developing contextualized learning materials for future unprecedented educational disruptions. This study employed a descriptive qualitative method to survey the challenges and coping strategies encountered by 42 purposively selected English Major Students in the Bachelor of Secondary Education program. Through an expert-validated online survey questionnaire and interview guide questions created by the researchers, semi-structured interviews were conducted via Google Meet to triangulate the responses gathered from the administered survey form. Thematic coding was applied to transcribe the responses from the semi-structured interviews. The researchers derived the characteristics of the instructional framework from the results of the research objectives. Themes were derived from the respondents’ experiences and stories, comprising the characteristics of the instructional framework. These characteristics form the basis of a learning plan that could be used in designing an actual learning plan for use during educational disruptions, as defined in this study.