In online learning, teachers use several supportive strategies to make learners active. The right strategies at the right time will make distance learning effective and keep students active. Research aims to find out the strategies used by the teachers to maintain activeness in English courses during the pandemic era and to find out the most appropriate strategy used by the teachers to maintain activeness in English courses during the pandemic era. The researcher interested in examining how teacher strategies to maintain students' activeness during online class.
The author employed descriptive qualitative research to examine the teacher's strategies in English online learning classes in this study. It explains the teaching strategies employed in MTs Negeri 1 Banjarmasin. The researcher uses two techniques to collect data. There are observations and interviews. Observations were made in online classes VII (A, B, and C) at MTs Negeri 1 Banjarmasin. Then the interview was conducted with three English teachers face to face.
The results showed that the teacher strategies in teaching class of students VII (A, B, and C), the researcher concluded there were six learning strategies used in the online learning process by three teachers involved. The learning strategies are discussion, problem-solving, jigsaw, peer teaching, case study, and debate. T1 prefers to use discussion strategy, while T2 emphasizes learning on the peer teaching strategy and T3 argues that debate strategy can increase student interest in learning so that it stimulates student understanding of the given topic.