5,600 positions vacant positions in Israel's new school year or "teacher waste"

It has not been half the summer, and the Israeli education community has been worried about facing "teachers' shortage". The Ministry of Education of Israel recently said that there are 5,600 teachers' positions in the new school year, most of which are key disciplines such as mathematics, science and English.

"Land News" reported that at this time in previous years, parents would buy books and schoolbags as usual, and considers their children's post -class activities. However, this year, they have to pay attention to headline news and see if the Ministry of Finance and the Teacher Trade Union reached an agreement. If it is not achieved, teachers may strike.

According to the "Israel Times" report, "too crowded classrooms" and "too low wages" are important reasons why the education community cannot keep teachers. It is reported that Israel's "classroom congestion" is much higher than the average level of economic cooperation and development organizations (Economic Organizations), while the average wages of teachers are much lower than the average level of the organization.

According to data from the Central Statistics Bureau of Israel, the average monthly salary of Israeli teachers in 2019 is 12,000 new Shakel (about $ 3529). According to the "Land News" report, the starting salary of teachers is relatively low. The actual monthly salary of the new teacher is only 5,600 new Shekl ($ 1647), which is basically the same as the national minimum wage standard.

In May of this year, more than 20,000 teachers from various places in Israel held protests in Traviv, urging the government to take practical measures to improve teachers' treatment and improve the teaching environment. However, the Ministry of Finance has not agreed to raise the monthly salary of new teachers to 10,000 new Shekl ($ 2941) proposed by the Teacher Union so far.

However, domestic public opinion in Israel believes that the shortage of teachers is only one of the many issues in the Israeli education community. The current more severe problem is that although the expenditure of Israeli education has repeatedly reached a record high, compared with other developed countries, students in the country do not have competitiveness in key skills.

According to the report released by the OECD in 2021, from 2012 to 2018, the educational expenditure from elementary to universities accounted for the proportion of domestic GDP, and Israel ranked third among the member states of Economic Organization. This number in 2018 was 6.2%, 1.4 percentage points higher than the average level of the organizational organization.

However, the results of the International Student Evaluation Projects (PISA) of the Organization Organization showed that among the 79 countries and regions participating in the evaluation, the 15 -year -old students' reading, mathematics, and science capabilities of Israel were only ranked 37th, 41st, and 42nd. According to the "Land News", because the extreme orthodox Jewish school does not teach non -religious subjects, if students from these schools are also included in the PISA assessment, the overall ranking will be lower.

In the Israeli education community, in addition to investing with the actual reward of "a large gap" is surprising, another surprising status quo is that in this immigrant country, English teachers have a particularly shortage.

Nestzioner Levi, the head of English research in the Ministry of Education of Israel, explained that the Israelites with a large number of mother tongue as English chose to enter high -paying technology companies and are unwilling to engage in education. At the same time, many mother tongue immigrants are not good in Hebrew and have cultural gaps, and it is difficult to integrate into the classroom.

Note: The author of this article is a reporter from Xinhua News Agency in Jerusalem.

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