The turnover rate is going to remain high until admin supports teachers again. Raising pay may help but you couldnt pay me enough to go back to the classroom at this point.

@sharinaross1865

8 ай бұрын

I concur with you. You rarely see a student shortage.

@microbios8586

8 ай бұрын

I loved my teacher salary. It was so nice. I had the qualifications and energy, but kids and parents are so awful. I make way less now. You could pay me a fortune to be a teacher again and I'd refuse. It's torture.

@traceyholt8223

8 ай бұрын

Completely agree. This is the same across the world, as the teacher shortage is in many countries including Australia, where I teach.

I am a career changer. I went through "pedagogy" training required to get the certification. I can categorically say it was mostly waste of a lot of money and time - this so-called training is full of woke nonsense.

In Australia, we have "Permission to Teach" (PTT) who are students in their 4th (last) year of their University degree, given permission to teach their major subject.

Can we just admit we lost the 'high stakes' gamble called standardized testing? Time to admit we failed so we can actually reform. The old system doesn't work anymore and the people (administrators) currently in charge are all losers based on their measurable results. O and we aren't on the same team anymore either. I'm not on your team either. Reap it.

@traceyholt8223

8 ай бұрын

There is a teacher shortage across the world. In Australia, we only have one standardised test called Naplan. Only years 3, 5, 7 and 9 complete this once per year. So I don't think that's the reason here. I think the common issue is too much work is being expected of teachers, the pay isn't enough for everything we're expected to do and we're doing more and more behavioural management, well being and welfare work and less time actually teaching.

Teaching has the same problem as the US military. There is NO shared sense of purpose. Everyone is an individual looking out for themselves. This crap is just more of the same.

@traceyholt8223

8 ай бұрын

There IS a sense of purpose - teaching the child! Problem is that Education Departments and authorities are asking us to do more and more other work - including supervision outside the classroom, administration paperwork (often as a record of what has been done, and has no effect on student learning), behavioural monitoring, well being and welfare support. Here in Australia, it is meant to be a 30 + 8 week. 30 hours of teaching and planning and 8 hours of other duties. My other duties explode to about 12 hours per week and because I'm creating a differentiated program, I play 4 to 6 activities per lesson to accomodate for my students. Yr 8 class that has students at Kinder to Yr 8 levels. I often find I'm doing a 50+ hour week and the pay doesn't reflect that.

@greorbowlfinder7078

8 ай бұрын

@@traceyholt8223 we agree. If everyone had a shared sense of purpose, then everything you just wrote wouldn't be true. It's only true due to a lack of purpose that is shared with everyone involved.

@traceyholt8223

8 ай бұрын

@@greorbowlfinder7078 The Education Department, the School Boards and all those that deem themselves experts in Education, without having entered a classroom to teach, are the ones that are making it hard. Their lack of support when dealing with student behaviours, their lack of understanding about how paper work increases workload and stress but not student outcome and the constant standardised tests that have absolutely no effect or relationship to actual teaching is the problem.