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Lessons and corona organization (symbolic picture): Many school principals say that they barely manage their work in terms of time
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No more time to do all the tasks, less and less desire to go to work: This is the mood of the German school principals in the Corona autumn after they have organized everyday school life for months during the pandemic.
This is shown by a study by the Forsa Institute on behalf of the Association for Education and Upbringing (VBE), which will be presented this Friday.
Compared to the results in previous years, the mood has clearly deteriorated:
The motivation to go to work has dropped sharply:
24 percent
of the school principals surveyed report that they
"really enjoy"
going
to work
.
Last year it was 58 percent.
The proportion of respondents who
“rather reluctantly” or “very reluctantly” to
go to work rose
from 4 to 27 percent
.
More and more school administrators are also struggling to complete all their tasks within the specified working hours and to manage them in such a way that they are satisfied with the result:
Only 3 percent state that they can cope with all tasks in the management time available to them.
One in four says they can do a maximum of half.
Sixty percent of school principals
say that they can
often
do their job
to their own satisfaction
- significantly less than last year, when this opinion was still 73 percent.
In March, at the beginning of the corona pandemic, the value was 67 percent.
The school principals also have less and less the impression that they can rely on the help of parents, pupils and, above all, the authorities.
Compared to March, the proportion of respondents who felt supported by the school inspectorate slipped by 21 percentage points in the autumn.
For the study, 785 school administrators from general education schools were surveyed nationwide in October and November 2020.
For VBE chairman Udo Beckmann, the results are "an indictment of politics".
This is responsible for supporting school administrators and only giving them as many tasks as can be managed.
"Instead, people have just saddled on for years," criticizes Beckmann.
"That already took its revenge, but especially during the corona pandemic."
Positively surprised: "Intact sanitary facilities"
Beckmann called for "noticeable relief from school management teams, administrative specialists and the possibility of independently implementing creative solutions within a framework".
"Positively surprised," said the head of the association, however, from the results on equipping schools.
There are now intact sanitary facilities in 83 percent of schools.
The attention that had been paid to this topic in recent years had not been enough, said Beckmann.
The necessary hygiene measures in the context of the pandemic have now improved.
While several schools have invested in new sinks and toilets so that children can even comply with hygiene rules in the corona crisis, the digital equipment is still moderate.
According to VBE, there are still devices for all pupils in only 6 percent of schools and devices for all teachers in 13 percent of schools.
Only 15 percent of school administrators reported that teachers had been adequately prepared through further training.
"The much-praised 'hybrid instruction' will not be able to take place across the board," warned Beckmann.
There is now - also thanks to the financial aid from the digital pact - in 40 percent of the schools in all rooms and a connection to the broadband network in half of the schools.
Nevertheless, there can be no talk of a digital boost.
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On Wednesday, Chancellor Angela Merkel and the prime ministers of the federal states agreed that schools in corona hotspots should take further measures to protect against infection, for example hybrid or alternating classes, i.e. a mix of face-to-face and distance teaching, which ideally should be digital .
Teachers would have to restructure their daily work in the pandemic.
According to a study by the health insurance company DAK-Gesundheit and the German Teachers' Association, many already feel very stressed:
According to the results,
every fourth teacher
shows
signs of burnout
in the corona crisis
and is
regularly emotionally exhausted
.
65 percent
of
those working
in schools are
more worried about their health
.
90 percent of those
questioned stated that school lessons
had become
significantly more strenuous
compared to the previous year
.
The reasons for this are the implementation of the corona measures among the students, their own health protection and the absence of colleagues.
According to the survey,
around a third of teachers are
afraid to go to work
because of the pandemic
.
For the study, around 2,300 teachers exclusively from North Rhine-Westphalia were interviewed online.
According to the information, the results can also be transferred to other federal states because the exceptional situation is largely comparable nationwide.
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