The country, just a stone’s throw away from us, is suffering from a labor shortage due to an aging population.
In the 2021/22 school year, the employment rate reached its highest level in ten years, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) announced.
Teachers and students (formazioneoggi.it)
Of the 709,000 teachers employed during the school year, nearly 41 percent worked part-time and more than a third were 50 and older. The country’s teachers’ association warned at the end of January that the German education system was facing a crisis “Biggest teacher shortage in 50 years” Highlighting the failures of the government’s education policy over the last 15 years.
According to a recent survey by State ministries of cultureorganized by the Editorial Network Germany (RND), are currently there 12,000 vacant apprenticeships in Germany.
However, the actual number could be reach up to 40,000stated the teachers’ association.
Apprenticeships in Germany: Everything you need to know
The shortage of teachers in the country is caused especially due to demographic change and falls “into the general shortage of skilled workers,” explained the Conference of Ministers of Education of the States (KMK) in a statement and said that “it will hardly be possible to train enough teachers in the future”.
Because the aging populationGermany is faced with a serious shortage of skilled workers in many sectors. This will happen on the German labor market by 2030 We need six million additional workersChancellor Olaf Scholz told the newspaper Bild am Sonntag at the beginning of the month.
The work of the teacher It’s fun because it’s varied. Of course I have to stick to the timetable, but I can arrange my lessons that way arouse the interest of students and ensure that they enjoy learning.
If you are a primary school teacher or professor, you can now apply for a one-year stay in Germany Italian lessons in primary schools. Knowledge of the German language is an advantage, but applications from particularly motivated teachers whose language level needs improvement can be considered.
The program is managed by Ministry of National Education, higher education and research. The coordination and educational support is provided by OFAJ.
OFAJ therefore offers an information meeting, an educational course, a language course, an intermediate course and a review meeting. The most significant difference between the Italian and the German model concerns, first of all, the Teacher wagesespecially young professionals.
Salary
In Germany the salary is Much more interesting: 2,700 euros net at the beginning of his career and 4,000 euros at the end of his career.
Despite recent adjustments to teachers’ salaries, such as the creation five years ago of the “exceptional class”, accessible at the end of their career and under strict conditions (only 3% of teachers have access to it), which provides a salary of 3,600 euros netor the Ministry of National Education’s recent promise to guarantee this Salary of at least 2,000 euros net for new owners.