Not surprising and yet dramatic: This is how the most comprehensive meta-analysis to date on corona learning deficits in school children can be summarized, which is now in the journal Nature Human Behaviour has appeared. According to the study, students lost 35 percent of the learning progress of a normal school year during the pandemic overall and across several countries. Those most affected by the deficits are those who come from poorer families or grow up in poorer countries. The...
Schools are understaffed, so everyone should teach more. is that fair no But the fact that so many teachers don't even work 50 percent is hard to place.comment by Paul MunzingerThe more the teacher shortage worsens, the clearer it becomes that the coming years will be painful. Not for everyone who has to do with school - there is always a group somewhere that successfully keeps society's problems at bay. But for many. Because there are no good answers to...
from Andreas Glas and Johann Osel, Bad StaffelsteinIn order to combat the shortage of staff in Bavarian schools, Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) wants to poach numerous teachers from other federal states. To this end, he is planning enticements, such as financial incentives and relocation assistance. The poaching offensive is intended to help fill a total of 6,000 new teaching positions that Söder wants to create in Bavaria by 2028; 2000 more for social workers, psychologists and school administrators. In...
Brandenburg wants to introduce the bachelor's teacher, Bavaria wants to poach the staff from other federal states. This shows how great the teacher shortage is.comment by Paul MunzingerThe mother of all problems in German schools is not immigration, even if some have not only been convinced of this since New Year's Eve. It's not digitization either, even if the Corona debate sometimes gave that impression. The mother of all problems is the lack of teachers. source site
In order to combat the shortage of staff in Bavarian schools, Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) wants to poach numerous teachers from other federal states. To this end, he is planning enticements, such as financial incentives and relocation assistance. The poaching offensive is intended to help fill a total of 6,000 new teaching positions that Söder wants to create in Bavaria by 2028. He also plans that the training of master craftsmen in the Free State will soon be free...
The Bavarian Education and Science Union (GEW) has called for an end to the so-called standard assessment of teachers. This means additional work for everyone involved - and disadvantaged women working part-time. "Crises and, above all, the lack of skilled workers put a lot of strain on the colleagues," said Ruth Brenner, a member of the GEW's main staff council, on Tuesday. Now the opening of the assessment is leading to discord in many colleges. "Many teachers do not feel...
Yes, the personal pronouns he or she may still be printed on school reports in Berlin in the future - although some media now suggest the opposite. But at the end of this school year there should be a third option in certain formulations for the first time: the name of the person who receives the certificate - without specifying whether it is a student or a person who is beyond these two opportunities prescribed."If there is a desire to...
The production of Christmas presents was in full swing at the Marquartstein high school in the weeks leading up to the holidays. This time - we can now reveal it, the presents have long since been unwrapped - parents, grandparents and friends found a bottle opener under the tree, disguised as a miniature wooden plane. Built by the high school carpenter apprentices in the school's own workshop, which is located directly on the banks of the Tiroler Achen. "I find...
When the carol singers turn the corner at the opera house in Stuttgart, Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar trip over each other's feet. "Get in line, you idiots," calls her companion before the children line up on the stairs to the opera. As always, they bring good wishes for the new year at the Epiphany meeting of the Free Democrats. Party leader and Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner listens to them, including the chanted warnings not to forget the poor and...
In the future, almost all future teachers should get the same starting salary, but that's not all. In order to cushion the teacher shortage, fundamental changes have to be made.It's getting expensive, and the state government wants to afford it - or has to, in order to get the situation in the schools under control. Bavaria's teachers should get almost the same starting salary in the future. Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) surprisingly announced A 13 for everyone after the...