During the pandemic, major changes in almost all areas of life in the world, one of which occurred in the field of education. Especially in Indonesia, face-to-face learning systems becomes online learning. In this change, many parties are not ready for this system. One of them is the teaching staff or teachers. Therefore, the researcher wanted to know the difficulties of teachers while teaching using Youtube during the pandemic. This research is a qualitative descriptive study using the phenomenology approach. Data were collected from the results of interviews and analysis of data content analysis interpretation. The subjects of this study were teachers of SMA 2 Tarakan. The results show that the teacher believes that teaching and learning activities online are considered ineffective and it is difficult to control students when learning online. Weak internet networks, non-existent communication tools, and limited quotas are obstacles that are often experienced by teachers
