A national survey found that more than 20% of the teachers who taught technology classes, including programming, at public junior high schools nationwide last year did not have a technology teaching license.
In response to the expansion of programming education in junior high school "technology" classes from 2021, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has investigated whether the teachers in charge of the classes have a "technology" teaching license as of May last year. Ta.
As a result, out of a total of 9,719 teachers in prefectures and designated cities across the country, 2,245 teachers (23%) did not have a "technical" license, and teachers with licenses in other subjects or teachers with temporary licenses I understand what you were teaching.
By local government, the percentage of teachers without a technical license was highest
in Wakayama Prefecture at 75%,
followed by
Miyazaki Prefecture at 64%,
and Oita Prefecture at 58%,
more than half in seven local governments. Ta.
On the other hand ,
in six local governments, including
Tokyo
, Gunma Prefecture , and Ibaraki Prefecture
, all classes were taught by licensed persons, and there were variations between regions.
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology is calling on boards of education across the country to systematically hire teachers so that all teachers in charge of classes will have a technology license by 2028.
Additionally, in areas such as rural areas, it may be difficult to assign teachers with ``technical'' licenses, so we would like to promote measures such as teaching at multiple schools and introducing distance learning.