Education: Ways to upgrade the careers of teachers
Become a teacher in thirty minutes! This is the baroque promise of the rector of Versailles, Charline Avenel, who, in a video that has gone viral, announced the launch of a speed dating on May 30 in order to recruit no less than 2,035 contract workers for the next school year. Classified ads on Leboncoin, partnership with Pôle emploi and Apec, contact with foreign embassies to recruit language teachers… The academies must redouble their imagination to seek out the teachers who are missing.
The cost of housing in Ile-de-France
Beyond the necessary upgrading, other ideas are put forward to restore luster to this profession. The cost of housing in Ile-de-France makes the Ile-de-France academies very unattractive: is it not time to review the housing allowance, which has not been updated for thirty years, and to ask local authorities to reserve a part of the social stock to teachers, as was the case with the old body of teachers?
Encourage conversions to the teaching profession
Another track: encourage conversions to the teaching profession. "We are not opposed to the idea of ​​a resumption of seniority for an engineer who has spent ten years in the private sector and who would like to become a maths teacher", suggests Sébastien Planchenault, president of the association of math teachers. "Why should the contract workers that National Education struggle to recruit be the least well paid in the public service, where in the central administration or in the ministerial cabinet they are better treated than the incumbents?" Asks Guillaume Prévost, general delegate of the think tank education Up. Read More...