China News Service, Beijing, June 18 (Reporter Kan Feng) Recently, the recruitment of the central "special post plan" in the compulsory education stage in 2022 has been launched. The country plans to recruit 67,000 special post teachers, and the topic of "special post teachers" also follows. It rushes to the Internet hot search list.
What is a "special post teacher"?
How can rural education recruit, retain and take root?
Data map: On-site confirmation of teacher recruitment registration.
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67,000 people were recruited, and plans for special post teachers in various provinces were announced
According to the "Notice on Doing a Good Job in the Implementation of the Plan for Special Posts for School Teachers in Rural Compulsory Education in 2022" jointly issued by the General Office of the Ministry of Education and the General Office of the Ministry of Finance, the central "special post plan" teachers planned to recruit this year will reach 67,000 .
The central "special post plan" is still implemented in the central and western provinces, focusing on the original "three districts and three prefectures", key counties for national rural revitalization, and minority areas; the focus is on supplementing special post teachers for rural schools and continuously optimizing the teaching staff. Structure, and further strengthen the supply of teachers in ideological and political, physical and sound beauty, foreign language, science, labor, mental health, information technology, special education, etc.
The above document also clarifies that for the recruitment of special post teachers in remote and difficult areas and in urgent need of majors, the proportion of opening examinations can be appropriately reduced or not set according to the actual situation, and the open recruitment method can be conducted by interviews and direct inspections, and the qualifying line can be delineated. .
For areas that are particularly remote and difficult, and the loss of teachers is more serious, the local student source can be tilted.
Recently, many provinces have also announced the recruitment scale of the "special post plan" in various places.
For example, Hunan Province plans to recruit 3,984 special post teachers this year, including 3,800 from the central special post programme and 184 from the provincial special post programme.
In 2022, Shanxi Province will recruit a total of 3,500 special post teachers, including 2,500 from the central special post plan and 1,000 from the provincial special post plan.
Data map: Job seekers are looking for jobs at the venue.
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What benefits do special post teachers bring?
The title of "special post teacher" has actually been going on for more than ten years.
On May 15, 2006, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Personnel, and the Central Editorial Office jointly issued a notice, deciding to implement the plan for special positions for school teachers in rural compulsory education.
By openly recruiting college graduates to teach in rural schools in the western "two basics" key counties, the problems of insufficient rural teachers and unreasonable structure will be gradually solved, and the overall quality of rural teachers will be improved.
In September last year, the Ministry of Education introduced that over the 16 years since the implementation of the "Special Post Program", 1.03 million special post teachers have been added to rural schools in the central and western regions.
Chu Zhaohui, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences, said that the role of the special post program is reflected in two aspects. For college graduates, especially normal students, special post teachers have enriched employment opportunities and allowed graduates to have more choices. For rural schools in the central and western regions, the special post teachers supported by the central government have solved the problem of difficult recruitment of teachers for them.
From the perspective of recruitment policies in various places, policy support is given in many places to encourage college students to go to the grassroots to engage in the teaching profession.
For example, Shanxi has made it clear that the recruitment targets are mainly undergraduates and above from ordinary colleges and universities. Graduates of undergraduate teacher training programs are encouraged to apply, and graduates from higher normal colleges can be appropriately recruited.
"In most places, it is clear that graduates of ordinary colleges and universities are the main ones, and the service period of special post teachers in most provinces is three years." Zhang Xiaojing, an expert from Huatu Education Research Institute, said that from the recruitment plans released by various places, some provinces are not willing to participate in " There are volunteers with teaching experience, graduates of normal colleges and universities who have participated in internships and teaching support for more than half a year, college students and soldiers returning to school, and full-time graduate students with a master's degree or above. Priority will be given to hiring under the same conditions.
From the perspective of post treatment, in accordance with the requirements of this year's "special post plan", in addition to the subsidy in terms of remuneration, it is also clearly and strictly in accordance with the spirit of the relevant documents to ensure that special post teachers who have expired after three years of service, have passed the assessment and are willing to stay in the post are recruited in time. and implement jobs.
Data map: The scene of a job fair.
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Let rural teachers recruit, retain and take root
In recent years, the topic of "teacher fever" has aroused heated discussions in public opinion. However, in contrast to the "teacher fever" in some developed areas, the problem of "difficulty in recruiting and retaining teachers" in underdeveloped areas and rural areas in the central and western regions is still exist.
Last year, when a middle school in Shenzhen was recruiting, the phenomenon of the gathering of masters and doctors caused a heated public debate. Many netizens said with emotion that "the end of a teacher is a doctor." In the recruitment, it was revealed that the recruitment positions were cancelled because the number of applicants did not reach the proportion of the opening examinations.
Regarding the current uneven phenomenon of teacher recruitment, Chu Zhaohui said that there is a structural imbalance in the teaching force in our country at this stage. There are imbalances, such as a shortage of teachers in subjects such as music, sports, and information technology, and a shortage of teachers in rural and remote areas."
Xiong Bingqi, Dean of the 21st Century Education Research Institute, analyzed that the disparity between "hot and cold" teachers is related to the overall allocation of basic education resources. In areas with strong financial strength, the investment in education is large, and the salary of teachers is high, and the attractiveness of positions is naturally increased. high.
In the long run, the level of educational investment in underdeveloped areas and the overall treatment of teachers should be improved, and the overall planning of basic education resources by local finance needs to be strengthened.
As for the special post teachers themselves, Chu Zhaohui said, including special post teachers, a number of support policies at the national level in recent years have played a significant role in solving the problems of insufficient rural teachers and unreasonable structures.
In the future, investment in basic education should be increased, and more comprehensive institutional guarantees should be used to improve the treatment status, growth channels and development space of grassroots education positions such as special post teachers, especially to enable teachers from underdeveloped areas to be recruited and retained. , can take root.
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