Chinanews client, Beijing, October 12th (Ren Jing) The teacher qualification exam registration is hot, and prestigious masters and doctors compete for the number of teachers in primary and secondary schools... Recently, the topic of "teacher hot" has aroused public opinion.
Is the teaching profession really so popular?
Does competing for teachers really need to "crowd their heads"?
Data Map: On-site confirmation of teacher recruitment registration.
Image source: Visual China
Masters and Ph.Ds get together, why do teachers "squeeze their heads"?
Recently, the phenomenon of getting together with masters and doctors during recruitment in a middle school in Shenzhen has aroused public opinion.
In this regard, many netizens said that "doctorate teachers in elementary and secondary schools are overkilled", and some netizens said with emotion that "the end of the teacher is a doctor."
But such a phenomenon is actually not uncommon in Shenzhen.
Shenzhen’s “four major schools” have higher requirements for teachers. Taking the 2022 graduate recruitment announcements issued by Shenzhen Middle School and Shenzhen Experimental School as examples, the minimum academic requirements for recruitment by both schools are graduate students, and most positions require applicants to have Corresponding professional background.
Except for the "Big Four", the qualifications for recruitment by other schools are not low.
According to a recent recruitment announcement issued by Longgang District, Shenzhen, many schools also start recruiting masters.
In addition to high recruitment requirements, remuneration and development prospects are also important factors that attract many masters and doctoral candidates.
Liu Jia (a pseudonym), a postgraduate student at a key university in Beijing, participated in the recruitment of teachers in Longgang District, Shenzhen last year.
Wang Xue (pseudonym), a teacher who joined a primary school in Shenzhen for one year, also told Chinanews.com that the salary of teachers in Shenzhen is indeed relatively good. The annual salary is high, the establishment is solved, the teacher dormitory is provided, and the problem of children going to school is solved.
Therefore, there are many masters and doctors who apply for the exam, and the competition is fierce.
It is not difficult to understand that such teacher positions are highly competitive with good salary, stable work, long vacations, and good development prospects.
Data map.
The research army is huge
Behind the "teacher fever", "teaching resources" are even hotter
Corresponding to the fact that high-educated graduates get together to compete for teacher positions, in recent years, more and more college students have joined the army of elementary and secondary school teaching resources examinations, and the "teaching resources fever" has become a phenomenon that has been focused by public opinion.
Judging from the registration data, in 2016, there were 2.6 million registered teachers for the teacher qualification examination. In 2017, it reached 4.1 million, and by 2019 it has climbed to 9 million.
Since the beginning of this year, a total of 1.91 million people have passed the certification to obtain a teacher qualification certificate, an increase of 28.7% over the entire year of last year.
According to Chu Zhaohui, a researcher at the China Academy of Education, the "hot" of the teaching resources test is due to the increasing number of college graduates in recent years. The total number of college graduates in 2021 will reach 9.09 million. Under the employment competition, holding a certificate means more A "way out" was created.
"In recent years, the state has raised the entry threshold for teachers, and teacher qualification certificates have become a necessary condition for teachers inside and outside the staff. In addition, in recent years, the state has gradually required some teachers in training institutions to obtain teacher qualification certificates, which have increased teaching resources. Exam fever." Zhang Xiaojing, head of Huatu Education Teacher Research Institute, analyzed the media.
Zhang Xiaojing believes that, from the perspective of the overall environment, teachers’ salaries have continued to increase, and the state has also given priority to guarantee needs in terms of staffing, and the attractiveness of the future teacher profession will continue to increase.
Is "teacher fever" common?
There are still difficulties in recruiting and retaining people in some areas
As experts have said, in recent years, with the continuous improvement of benefits, the attractiveness of teacher posts has continued to rise. However, in contrast to the "teacher fever" in some developed regions, the "recruitment of teachers in underdeveloped regions and rural areas in the central and western regions" The problem of "difficulties in keeping people and keeping people" has not been completely resolved.
In Jun County, Henan Province, the number of open recruitment of teachers for some positions in 2021 and the number of applicants did not reach 1:3, and some positions were reduced or cancelled according to regulations; Chaohu City, Anhui Province, in 2021, the recruitment of new teachers in primary and secondary schools for "high school physics" positions was not reached Recruitment plan is cancelled by the proportion of exams...and so on, there are a lot of news that teachers are difficult to recruit every year.
Announcement on the cancellation and cancellation of some posts for open recruitment of teachers in Junxian County in 2021.
Image source: Official website of Jun County People's Government
In July of this year, the "Guilin Evening News" reported on the current situation of teacher recruitment in Guilin with the title "How big is the teacher gap in Guilin primary and secondary schools".
In the report, the person in charge of Guilin Middle School said that it is even more difficult to recruit high-quality teachers in various disciplines.
Some subjects may be dissatisfied or vacant when recruiting. For some positions, only one or two people may sign up, and neither can reach the opening test ratio. In particular, math, physics and geography teachers are really difficult to recruit.
The report also mentioned that "in stark contrast to the shortage of teachers in some subjects in urban schools and key schools, the recruitment of teachers in primary and secondary schools in counties and towns is still very difficult."
Regarding the current unevenness of teacher recruitment, experts say that the number of teachers in my country is over-numbered at this stage, but structural lack of editing means structural imbalance, such as a shortage of teachers in subjects such as music, sports, and beauty, poverty and remoteness. There is a shortage of regional teachers.
Xiong Bingqi, Dean of the 21st Century Education Research Institute, analyzed that the unevenness of heat and cold between regions is related to the overall allocation of basic education resources.
"Regions with strong financial strength have large investment in education, high teacher salaries, and income levels much higher than those in regions with weak financial strength."
Xiong Bingqi said that to truly solve the uneven situation of teacher recruitment, improve the level of education investment in underdeveloped areas and the overall treatment of teachers, it is necessary to strengthen the overall planning of basic education resources by the provincial finance.
That is, the provincial finance guarantees the basic education funds of a province, including the salary of teachers, so that the basic education teachers in the province can be treated uniformly, and the school-running conditions and quality gaps in the province can be reduced.
"If this problem cannot be solved, the'popularity' of the teaching profession will only occur in local areas, not the overall ecology." Xiong Bingqi said.
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