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Prime Minister Markus Söder has declared war on the teacher shortage in Bavaria.
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Teachers at the limit: Prime Minister Markus Söder has made suggestions about the shortage of teachers at Banz Monastery.
This is what BLLV district chairwoman Kerstin Rehm says about the proposals.
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- Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder commented on where the journey to Bavaria's primary schools should go and how they want to get the shortage of teachers under control in Banz.
BLLV district chairwoman Kerstin Rehm thinks some of it is good.
And she warns against losing sight of the senior teachers.
Ms. Rehm, Prime Minister Markus Söder wants one hour more German lessons per week for primary school students. Do you agree?
According to BLLV boss Kerstin Rehm, teachers are exposed to high levels of stress.
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This is an excellent idea that we teachers have been discussing internally for a long time.
What's particularly good is that the Prime Minister doesn't want to impose an additional hour on us, but wants to cancel something else.
Which subject could be “sacrificed” for this?
In my opinion that would be the English subject in the 3rd and 4th grades.
This is a matter for secondary schools.
Primary schools should focus on the basics.
This is easier in the first grades.
They work according to the principle of basic teaching.
The teacher can set the priorities as needed.
But we would go further with our demand and also exchange the second English lesson in the 3rd and 4th grades - for a subject that focuses on intercultural understanding, peace education, strengthening the European idea and the various festivals in Europe.
The language culture would have to be included and also how you behave towards others.
How do you see that there is a need for improvement in the language culture?
This often starts with contact with the parents.
The salutation is missing in correspondence, and please and thank you are no longer a given.
The increasing proportion of children with a migrant background, where linguistic skills are simply lacking, certainly also plays a role.
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There is also room to recruit teachers from other federal states. Is that the saving idea?
This is certainly not the saving idea that will get us from the current teacher shortage to a sufficiently large staffing level.
Still, it's important.
I have long been an advocate of making the state exchange process easier for teachers so that it is easier to move to another state.
It would be the beginning of a reform in teacher training.
In order to make this possible, the bachelor's and master's degrees would have to be modified nationwide so that there are no longer significant differences in level in the individual federal states.
This is essential to be more flexible and make the profession more attractive.
On the one hand, you can – through certain incentives – bring teachers into federal states where the shortage is particularly great.
On the other hand, women in particular who practice this profession cannot currently accompany their husbands to another federal state and continue teaching if he is transferred, or at least not so easily.
And then the Prime Minister wants a stricter part-time regulation for teachers, wanting to link this to the age of their children - in other words, the older the child, the less part-time options. What do you think?
In this discussion, which still has to be held with everyone involved, one thing is very important: the senior colleagues, some of whom already have adult children, must not be forgotten.
They must also have the opportunity to work in various part-time options and, if necessary, to reduce their hours from the current 24 hours.
Because they are often at their limit after a long working life.
Teachers are exposed to high levels of stress and are often no longer able to cope physically and mentally full-time.
The obligatory number of hours for older people would have to be reduced.
With regard to the younger teachers - 87 percent of the staff are female - the option of part-time work must be retained in order to balance family and work.
If you also drastically cut part-time options for younger women, this profession will become unattractive for women.
That's why everything has to remain on a voluntary basis.
What do you think is essential?
Better remuneration analogous to secondary school and high school teachers.
We currently have the highest teaching obligations and the worst pay at primary schools, with sometimes terrible working conditions due to excessive tasks.
When the job becomes feasible again, there will be far fewer female colleagues who have to work part-time for health reasons.