The "macho" kindergarten education becomes popular, and the "shortage of male kindergarten teachers" behind it cannot be ignored
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To solve the problem of the shortage of male kindergarten teachers, it is necessary to increase investment in preschool education and effectively improve the treatment of teachers in preschool education.
Recently, a video titled "What's the experience of having a'macho' kindergarten teacher" became popular.
In the video, this kindergarten brother Liu Ningcheng has a sturdy appearance, but leads the children to dance cute dances. Because of the contrast, he has countless fans.
According to reports, Liu Ningcheng is an external teacher in the kindergarten. This year is his fifth year as a kindergarten teacher.
Every period of time, there will be reports of a certain kindergarten male kindergarten teacher becoming popular.
The main reason for the “popularity” of course is that the male kindergarten teachers are “too scarce”. The male kindergarten teachers take the children to dance and give everyone a different “look and feel”. There is even public opinion that the male kindergarten teachers are the “treasures” that the kindergartens compete for. boy".
The popularity of male kindergarten teachers has once again reflected the "shortcomings" of the serious imbalance between male and female kindergarten teachers in our kindergartens.
Objectively speaking, from a global perspective, the number of full-time kindergarten teachers in preschool education is far more women than men. However, the proportion of male kindergarten teachers in my country is only 2% (in many places, the proportion of male kindergarten teachers is only 1%). Use "male preschool teacher shortage" to describe.
The shortage of male teachers is not conducive to outdoor activities such as sports in kindergartens, and the cultivation of children's character will be lacking due to the absence of male teachers.
In the two sessions in recent years, representatives and committee members have always suggested strengthening the training of male kindergarten teachers.
In fact, the shortage of male kindergarten teachers aroused the attention of local education departments and colleges and universities as early as 10 years ago. In the past 10 years, the training program of "Free Teachers for Preschool Education Majors" was launched. Many places have it every year. A plan to train and recruit male kindergarten teachers.
However, how to attract outstanding boys to choose preschool education majors and attract preschool education graduates to choose to work in kindergartens and be willing to take root for a long time still face challenges.
For the lack of male kindergarten teachers, some people think this is mainly related to the cumbersome work in kindergartens and women are more suitable for taking care of children.
But in fact, a survey of male kindergarten teachers showed that the biggest pressure stems from the low salary in kindergartens.
From the perspective of the protection of basic education in various regions, since preschool education is non-compulsory education and does not have a high degree of emphasis on high school education, the treatment of public preschool teachers is not as good as that of public compulsory education teachers, while the treatment of private kindergarten teachers is even lower.
Recently, the Ministry of Education has publicly solicited opinions on the "Draft of the Preschool Education Law of the People's Republic of China (Draft for Comment)". The draft for comments mentioned that "kindergartens and their sponsors should guarantee the salary and welfare of teachers and other staff in accordance with relevant national regulations. Social insurance benefits to improve working and living conditions.” “Local people’s governments at or above the county level should include the salaries of public kindergarten teachers in the scope of financial security. Private kindergartens should reasonably determine teacher salary standards with reference to the salary levels of similar teachers in local public kindergartens, and guarantee teachers in accordance with the law Wages and benefits shall be paid in social insurance according to law."
Therefore, in order to solve the problem of the shortage of male kindergarten teachers, we should increase investment in preschool education and effectively improve the treatment of teachers in preschool education.
In order to guarantee the wages and benefits of pre-school education teachers, it is necessary to clarify that the wages and benefits and social insurance benefits of pre-school education teachers are in line with those of compulsory education teachers, and the wages and benefits of pre-school education teachers should be guaranteed according to the level of compulsory education teachers.
This is the key to solving the shortage of male teachers in preschool education.
□Xiong Bingqi (Educator)
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