Lang of teachers in North Rhine -Westphalia: Opposition calls for immediate solutions!

Lang of teachers in North Rhine -Westphalia: Opposition calls for immediate solutions!

North Rhine-Westphalia faces a drastic challenge in the education sector: An acute lack of teachers concerns schools across the country. School Minister Dorothee Feller (CDU) recognizes the problems and even admits that the situation is serious. In an interview with Ruhr24, Feller emphasized that from the more than 200,000 employees in NRW schools, the number of teachers who canceled has risen to almost 1,000 within a decade. This alarming development in particular meets younger educators who often have better opportunities outside the school sector today. See also the criticism of Dilek Engin, a spokeswoman for the SPD school policy, which Feller accuses of not sufficient for schools in difficult locations, where only half as many teachers are hired as at other locations, as WDR reported .

measures against a lack of teachers in the focus

Despite an increase of around 5000 settings last year, 7100 positions remain vacant, and the opposition demands quick solutions from the minister. Feller not only has to deal with the challenges of the lack of teachers, but also train digital transformation and dilapidated. School operations suffer from the expected inability to find adequate teachers, since the schools in the rural area are unattractive for young teachers, as Feller reports. A key element in the strategy to combat the teacher is the side entrance program that has already recorded first successes. Feller emphasizes, however, that the competition for specialists in other industries is significant, which makes the situation even more complicated, as well as Ruhr24 informed .

The minister also sees the defects as an opportunity for a change in the teaching profession and encourages teachers to rethink part -time positions. Many teachers in North Rhine -Westphalia are already working part -time, which reinforces the difficulties to fill school. Overall, the current situation shows a clear need for action in order to reduce the high requirements and the pressure on the teachers in order to appropriately teach all children in NRW.