The purpose of the study is to analyze the evidence gathered from the preschool teachers' experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic quarantine. The study was carried out with 11 teachers who have professional experience ranging between 3 to 19 years from private and public preschools. The study was specified according to criterion sampling strategy under the purposeful sampling method. The data gathered via open-ended questions and the phenomenology method, one of the qualitative research

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... , was used. The qualitative content analyses technique was applied for analyzing the data. It was reached remarkable themes about the preschool teachers' pedagogical challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic based on the analysis of data. The themes and their subthemes are as follows: The theme "challenges in the distance education process" contains the sub-themes of children, teachers, and parents, the theme "views about educational policy in new normal" contains the sub-themes of technological infrastructure problems, unpreparedness, and negative attitudes, the theme "expectations for the improvement of distance education" contains the sub-themes of teacher training, effective family involvement activities, and technology-based programs.