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2023-01-30 09:16:30Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Alarming situation/ Germany also lacks teachers, will calls for foreigners be
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If the German education system were to be graded, it would not pass the grade. In schools, the plaster is falling off the walls, the toilets are in a deplorable condition, the sports halls are often closed due to the work that needs to be done. It is not rare that classes are not held due to lack of teachers. Digitization is also slow. More and more students are at risk of dropping out and not succeeding in their later educational career. It was the pandemic that clearly revealed the problems of the German education system.

Part of the German infrastructure crisis

Parents know this problem - precisely in wealthy Germany. But the problems in education are related to the general infrastructure crisis in Germany and faulty planning over the years. At a time when demands for education policy have increased - education should help solve social problems such as integration and social democratic education. The main challenge of German schools today - the lack of teachers. "Currently we are talking about a shortage of 30,000 to 40,000 jobs for teachers that are unoccupied. Whereas the Conference of Ministers of Culture is talking about 12,000 places. There is a big difference in this estimate", says the head of the education sector of To the Robert-Bosch Dagmar Wolf Foundation for Deutschen Wellen.

According to the Association of Teachers, this difference is related to the fact that the figures of the Conference of Ministers of Culture are embellished. In many countries, classes have been canceled at the beginning of the school year due to the lack of teachers, so the need has only been met on paper, this association told the German Editorial Network, "Deutschland" RND. Parents or non-teachers are often engaged in schools as helpers and counted in the statistics as teachers. According to the data of the Conference of Ministers of Culture this January, 833,000 teachers were employed in Germany in 2021.

The biggest teacher shortage in 50 years

"The alarm bells have been ringing for a long time. We have had a shortage of teachers for ten years. However, I do not remember such a dramatic and harsh situation as we are experiencing now. And I have been in this field for a long time", says the president of the Association of German teachers," Heinz-Peter Meidinger, speaking to Deutsche Wellen. In my estimation, this is "the biggest teacher shortage in 50 years."

A large number of German schools (67%) see the greatest challenge for education in the lack of teaching staff. This was made known after the publication of the school barometer by the Robert-Bosch Foundation, in which school leaders are asked (1055 leaders were asked) about the challenges facing education. However, in areas with social problems, 80% of school leaders see the lack of teachers as the biggest crisis. Compared to this, the other problems seem almost secondary. As for example the slow down of digitalization, 22% of schools see this as a problem. 21% put their finger on the bureaucracy as a problem for schools, while 20% see the huge overload as a big problem.

Heinz-Peter Meidinger sees three main reasons for this predicament: First, German policy reacted too late after a steady increase in births for 12 years. Secondly, in the last 20-30 years, teachers' jobs have been allowed to be massively reduced. And the third: There was movement of refugees. Like now with Ukraine and the arrival of 200,000 children in one year. The schools were not prepared for this."

80,000 unoccupied places in the future

While the situation is expected to worsen. "We are moving towards a period where the "baby-boomer" generation (born in the late 50s-early 60s, ed.) is before retirement. This will further worsen the situation," he says Dagmar Wolf. According to the data of the researchers, there will be a shortage of about 80,000 positions in the teaching profession by 2030. Beyond that, there is a lack of social workers, school psychologists and school counselors to advance the inclusion process. The goal of inclusion is for every person in Germany to be accepted, equal and decide for themselves to participate in society - regardless of gender, age, background or health status.

Wolf sees "an acute need for action." This is about the cooperation between the 16 German states that are responsible for education. Education policy is coordinated at the Conference of Ministers of Culture, but in the end the countries follow their own selfish goals when it comes to who should attract the best teachers. "If you look at Bavaria, then it is the strategy of the prime minister of the state, Markus Söder, to try next year to attract as many pedagogical forces as possible from other states," says the expert. Countries compete with each other.

Si mund të bëhet atraktiv një profesion mësuesi? Një mënyrë është reduktimi i burokracisë së madhe. "Nëse i pyet mësuesit, se çfarë dëshirojnë më shumë, nuk është fjala për më shumë rrogë, por më shumë kohë për detyrat bazë-mësimdhënien", thotë krue i Shoqatës së Mësuesve Gjermanë, Heinz-Peter Meidinger. Detyrat shtesë, statistikat shtesë, organizimi i projekteve të tjera u merr atyre shumë kohë.

Ndërkohë Sindikata për Arsimin dhe Shkenën, GEW ka kërkuar me një plan 15 pikësh përmirësimin e gjendjes. Kështu duhet që të lehtësohen mësuesit me angazhimin e punonjësve të rinj që merren me administratën dhe IT-n. Propozime të tjera janë rritja e rrogës, kualifikimi i atyre që vijnë nga profesione të tjera, përmirësimi i pajisjeve të shkollave, shtimi i vendeve të studimit në universitete për mësuesinë. Po ashtu kërkohet lehtësimi i njohjes së diplomave universitare nga jashtë.

Heqja e pengesave burokratike për mësuesit e huaj

"The problem is not that very few apply themselves, but that many foreign teachers in Germany have no chance because of the difficult process of document recognition," says Dagmar Wolf. "We have a problem in the federation, that there is no unified recognition of documents, but the states make individual rules". As a result, there is a great interest in pedagogical forces from abroad, but in the end we have very few of them in schools due to bureaucratic obstacles in the system." According to the expert, Germany, a country that exports knowledge, can be said to have "remained in the classroom" with this condition, but nevertheless she closes it with optimism.

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