Academic teacher training does not always lead to appreciation at schools
Many university-educated teachers believe that schools make too little use of their qualities. For some of them this was reason to say goodbye to education.
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EBO Expertise Center held a survey among 715 university-trained primary school teachers. Most followed the so-called university teacher training college: usually a teacher training college at a university of applied sciences in combination with a university bachelor's degree in Educational Sciences or Educational Sciences.
dissatisfaction
More than a quarter of the respondents no longer work in primary education. Most of them left out of dissatisfaction with their career options and the lack of challenge they experienced.
Incumbent teachers also call the career prospects moderate (28 percent) or insufficient (19 percent). Apart from teaching, there is too little time to do anything with academic skills, according to 66 percent. No less than 40 percent would like to play a supplementary role in addition to teaching, but are not given the opportunity. According to the researchers, this can be disastrous for their job satisfaction and motivation.
No higher salary
Add to this the fact that they are not rewarded higher and that most school leaders “do not or hardly” know how to use the skills of the academics and the picture is complete: two in three academic teachers think that their added value is insufficiently used.
Yesterday the ministry announced that the shortage of teachers in the five largest Dutch municipalities has increased again slightly. According to members of AOb the teacher shortage is so great that the many millions of euros to combat the corona backlog cannot be spent.
