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Soon one hour more per week: teacher in Saxony-Anhalt
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So that fewer lessons are canceled in Saxony-Anhalt's schools, teachers should stand in front of the classes for an hour a week longer.
Education Minister Eva Feußner (CDU) wants to present the plans on Tuesday afternoon.
Among other things, it is about when and to whom exactly the regulation applies.
In the future there will be working time accounts for teachers, on which they can save the so-called advance hours.
Teachers can choose to have the hours paid off or take them as free time later in the block.
For primary school teachers, the new regulation means 28 instead of the previous 27 hours of lessons per week, for secondary and grammar school teachers it will be 26 instead of 25 hours in the future.
According to Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff (CDU), this means that the German average has been reached.
»Unspeakable personnel policy«
The obligation should be limited in time.
Across the state, there is a shortage of around a thousand teachers in Saxony-Anhalt.
According to Haseloff, the temporary extension of working hours can compensate for around half of the schools' current needs.
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The Education and Science Union (GEW) has sharply criticized the measure.
»Obviously the teachers are now supposed to carry away the unspeakable personnel policy of the state government of the past few years.
From the point of view of the GEW Sachsen-Anhalt, this additional hour is a wrong measure for the already overburdened colleges, which we do not accept," explained the union.
For February 13th and 14th, the union has invited to rallies in Magdeburg and Halle.
The Association of Philologists is also critical of the extension of working hours for teachers.
The additional work had been recommended, among other things, by the Standing Scientific Commission (SWK) of the Conference of Ministers of Education as a measure against the shortage of teachers.
Susanne Lin-Klitzing, Chairwoman of the Association of Philologists, described this suggestion as "unreasonable" in an interview with SPIEGEL on Monday: "As if the teachers hadn't already done an incredible amount!"
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