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Education Minister Karin Prien (CDU
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Karin Prien, Minister of Education in Schleswig-Holstein and from January President of the Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs (KMK), wants to fight against the shortage of teachers with an advertising campaign for scientists.
"For me the question is: how much can you anchor the idea of students of natural science subjects in their bachelor's degree that they could perhaps also become a teacher," said the CDU politician according to a report in the "Flensburger Tageblatt".
All federal states would have to train more teachers in the coming years, said Prien.
This applies above all to elementary and community schools, special needs education and vocational schools.
The situation requires "great efforts".
Specialist teachers are therefore particularly lacking in the natural sciences, but also in other subjects.
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In addition to expanding the number of study places, Prien also wants to expand the opportunities for lateral and lateral entrants.
"If lateral entrants are well trained, and we do that in Schleswig-Holstein, then they tend to be an asset to a college," said the education minister, according to the report.
For example, engineers with professional experience and a corresponding interest in switching should also be able to find their way into the school service - but without lowering the quality demands on the teaching profession.
Two thirds of lateral entrants in Berlin
Other federal states have also been struggling with staff shortages in the teachers' room for years. As early as autumn 2019, Berlin reported that almost two thirds of the newly hired teachers had not completed a teaching degree. In the case of primary school teachers, the figure had been seven out of eight a year earlier.
The new Berlin state government wants to increase the attractiveness of the job at the blackboard by returning to the civil service of teaching staff. Brandenburg has specialized in recruiting in Poland, and in North Rhine-Westphalia the state government is currently looking for a large number of school principals in addition to regular skilled workers: the post is currently vacant at every tenth public school in North Rhine-Westphalia, the "Westdeutsche Zeitung" reported shortly before Christmas. This means that 484 school administrators are vacant in the Rhine and Ruhr regions, especially in primary schools.
The state government in Saxony-Anhalt has also determined that it will not work without lateral entrants.
By the beginning of December, 941 teachers had been hired nationwide, 335 of whom were lateral entrants, reports n-tv - more than a third of all newcomers are therefore not fully trained as teachers.
Education Minister Eva Feußner (CDU) also said according to the report that none of the school types in Saxony-Anhalt are currently 100 percent supplying lessons.
The secondary schools are particularly affected, where only 88.9 percent of the lessons take place as planned.
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