“…Furthermore, teachers worldwide faced difficulties in teaching topics that they considered to be important, and assisting students to gain the skills necessary for the transition to primary education. This issue has been reported in the contexts of Greece, Germany, Turkey, the US and the UK (Quenzer-Alfred et al, 2021;Yildirim, 2021;Gonzàlez et al, 2022;Apostolou, 2022;Wythe, 2022;Bakopoulou, 2022;Gelir, 2023). Finally, preschool teachers have internationally reported on their difficulties to replicate the aspects of traditional education such as inquiry-based teaching when teaching remotely (Timmons et al, 2021), which led them to have doubts on the effectiveness of remote teaching and learning for preschoolers (Atiles et al, 2021;Duran, 2021;Negrette et al, 2022).…”