Posts complaining about the harsh working conditions at school sites Continue to have a serious shortage of teachers

It's been a year since the start of the national "#Teacher's Button" project, where the harsh working conditions of teachers are still being posted.

With the serious shortage of teachers becoming clear, work style reforms have not been waited for.

According to a survey conducted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology to the Board of Education nationwide this year, the percentage of faculty members who worked overtime beyond the national limit of 45 hours a month was 60% in junior high school and 50% in elementary school in many months. I am.

Internationally, according to a 2018 OECD = Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development survey, Japanese junior high school teachers have 56 hours of work per week, the longest among 48 countries and regions.

While there is no big difference in class hours, extracurricular activities such as club activities are four times the average time, and office work such as document preparation is also twice the average.

Under these circumstances, the number of teachers who took a leave of absence due to depression etc. exceeded 5,000 at school for four consecutive years, and as of May last year, it became clear that there is a shortage of more than 2,000 teachers at public schools nationwide. In addition, the hiring rate for elementary school teachers has been at a record low for the third consecutive year, and the situation surrounding teachers is becoming more severe.

Since March last year, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has been conducting a "#teacher baton" project to call on teachers, but when NHK analyzed Twitter posts containing this hashtag from the start to the end of this month, it also retweets. Including more than 650,000, and not including nearly 170,000, there are still posts that appeal to the harsh working conditions.

The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has indicated that it will gradually shift club activities on holidays to the region from the next fiscal year, and last month it told the National Board of Education to simplify school events such as athletic meet and excursion. We have notified that we will promote the placement of "club activity instructors" in place of teachers, but we have not waited for "work style reform" at school to reduce the burden on each teacher and ensure the quality of learning for children. We are in the situation of.

Published on the website an example of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology reform efforts

The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology publishes examples of work style reform efforts at schools nationwide on its website.

In this, in addition to learning aspects such as making teaching materials and scoring, methods to reduce the burden in each field such as student guidance, career guidance, extracurricular activities such as club activities and athletic meet, and estimated reduction time are introduced.

Of these, the ones with the largest reduction time as a guide were the introduction of external human resources and efforts to collaborate with the local community.

By leaving the rounding of the test to a former teacher or outsourcing the input of the results, each teacher can reduce about 107 hours a year, and club activities on holidays are done as a lesson by renting out the school playground to an external organization. By putting it into shape, it is shown that each faculty member will save 129 hours a year.

Many methods of utilizing ICT are also introduced, and by making home visits online, travel time is reduced by about 7 hours, and instead of printing class communication on paper and distributing it, you can see it on the homepage for about 21 hours a year. It is said that it will be a reduction of.

On the other hand, when sharing cases, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology said that there are pros and cons because all of them have some educational significance, and I would like them to refer to them according to the circumstances of the school and the region. increase.

Expert "The government secures a budget to increase personnel and reforms as soon as possible"

Associate Professor Naoko Fukushima of Chiba Institute of Technology, who is familiar with the work style reform of teachers, said, "If you simplify it, it is necessary to reduce the number of jobs and increase the number of people. Although it is largely left to the field, there is a limit only in the field. Since the elimination of the harsh work of teachers directly affects the education of children, the national government and the government are trying to increase the number of teachers and specialized staff. We need to secure a budget and proceed with reforms as soon as possible. "