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There is a shortage of teachers in the regions. LNK informs how to attract them.
Jelena Justinavičienė’s diploma was in a drawer for 30 years. The woman worked a variety of jobs, but not by specialty. After the quarantine, the Employment Service offered Jelena to clean the dust off her diploma and get a job as a teacher.
“It just came to our attention then. Theories have changed, practice has changed, I have had to go to courses, I have to improve,” said Jelena.
Many educational institutions are looking for employees like Jelena, who have forgotten what degree they have or want to retrain.
Vytautė Senkovienė, the director of the Šilinukas kindergarten, said that finding an employee is like doing Sisyphus’ work.
“The educators who came today are already meeting, asking me as a leader what kind of children will they work with, how old will the children be, in what group. We agree, we promise, we show, we try to speak. We are really trying to talk to come to us. Then we heard both sayings that “I’ll wait a bit,” said V. Senkovienė.
Kaunas alone lacks more than fifty different teachers in both kindergartens and schools.
We have provided 5,000. EUR support aimed at people who, after pedagogical studies, wish to settle in remote schools in the Kaunas district.
“There is a shortage of about 30 subject teacher-workers and about 30 preschool educators,” explained Ona Gucevičienė, director of the Kaunas City Department of Education.
The Vytautas Magnus University (VMU), which trains teachers, says there is a shortage of teachers in almost all specialties.
“There is a shortage of Lithuanian and technology teachers, and even a shortage of English teachers. The need is great as most of them are retiring,” said VMU Vice Chancellor for Studies Simona Pilkienė.
The situation in the Kaunas district is not much better.
“There is a shortage of physics, mathematics, four primary school teachers, speech therapists and eight psychologists in the Kaunas district and the biggest shortage is preschool teachers. This year we opened 33 new preschool groups, kindergarten groups. There will be about 780 children, about 55 preschool education specialists will be needed, ”said Jonas Petkevičius, director of the Kaunas District Department of Culture, Education and Sports.
In Kaunas district, if a teacher wishes to retrain, the municipality pays the price for all studies. If you want to acquire the teacher qualification, 80 percent is reimbursed. tuition fees. In addition, if a teacher is determined to work in the area for five years, a thousand supports are provided.
“We have planned 5 thousand support aimed at people who, after their pedagogical studies, wish to settle in remote schools in the Kaunas district,” said J. Petkevičius.
The ministry estimates that the situation has worsened since the quarantine.
“Until May 1. The municipalities provided data on how many of them plan to retire teachers or simply leave the education system, there were more than 1.5 thousand of those teachers. Contact education is both an aspiration and a desire. This is important not only for teachers to decide whether to work or not, but also for the students themselves, ”said Ramūnas Skaudžius, Deputy Minister of Education, Science and Sports.
The ministry hopes that by September, part of the teachers can retire from retirement or be arrested for not entering it, thus at least temporarily filling the gap.
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