This study sought to describe and interpret the subjective theories about the teacher's professional identity that are constructed and disseminated in the news during emergency education due to the COVID 19 pandemic. A documentary analysis study, qualitative methodology and a case study design were used. The purposive and convenience sampling corresponds to 40 news items from the press written in Spanish, about the teacher in a pandemic and published in different media that were collected through Google News from March 11 2020 and March 1 2020 until November 01 2020. Based on a thematic coding, the results evidenced subjective theories associated with the demanding characteristics, roles, functions, and values with which teachers identify during the pandemic. The analysis showed the different meanings of professional practice and the skills associated with their performance in the press. In the discussion, studies relating to teaching practice were used to interpret these results. © 2022 Logos: Revista de Linguistica, Filosofia y Literatura. All rights reserved.