A qualified teacher for every child in times of shortages
A qualified teacher for every child. We want that, but how do we do that in times of teacher shortages? It is high time for a conversation with teachers and support staff, with school administrators and the Amsterdam alderman for education Marjolein Moorman. Also AObdirector Thijs Roovers joins the conversation in the Balie.
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“What I especially want to achieve is that we don't all come up with our own solutions, but that we do it together,” says Roovers. “We have to tell the honest story, but also look at how we can move forward practically and what solutions we see for the future.”
Manifestation
Temporary emergency measures to deal with the teacher shortage will take on a more structural character, as a number of Amsterdam school administrators recently stated. The AOb held on to that a manifestation, exactly five weeks ago in the capital at the statue of Theo Thijssen.
Roovers: “The main pain at the time was that the boards came up with this independently. The point is that the teachers are seen and that solutions are sought together. Because you can think: 'this is it then', but you can also work towards a more attractive profession so that more people want to choose the teaching profession. Our goal remains to have a qualified teacher for every child by 2030.”
The conversation in De Balie is the first conversation after the event. On Friday afternoon, March 10, Roovers talks with education alderman Moorman and school administrators.
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