Berlin (dpa / bb) – Berlin schools have a hard time filling positions with trained teachers. “There are many schools that can no longer find a single, regularly trained teacher,” said the co-chairman of the Berlin Association of Secondary School Leaders (BISSS), Sven Zimmigart the “Tagesspiegel” (Wednesday). Among the around 33,000 teachers in Berlin, the number of lateral entrants who have not completed a teaching degree is now around 7,000, according to the newspaper.
Exact statistics are missing, as criticized the FPD education expert Paul Fresdorf, who tried to find out the proportion of lateral entrants with a written request. The answer from the education administration shows that all lateral entrants who have completed an extra-occupational legal traineeship since 2013 are referred to as “teachers who have completed teaching-related studies” and are no longer differentiated from teachers with teaching degrees, as the newspaper reports. Only those teachers who are still in their legal traineeship are referred to as lateral entrants.
Berlin is the only federal state that does not employ teaching staff. Several Berlin headmasters’ associations had sounded the alarm before the holidays in view of the shortage of teachers and demanded that they return to civil service.
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