Brandenburg's schools are increasingly relying on side entrants - what is behind it?

Brandenburg's schools are increasingly relying on side entrants - what is behind it?

At Brandenburg schools, side entrants are increasingly being used to counter the acute shortage of teachers. In the school year 2024/2025, the number of side entrants is 4,500, which corresponds to a share of around 20.3 percent of the approximately 22,000 teachers. This is an increase compared to the previous year, in which 3,820 side entrants (17.7 percent) worked in schools. Also in the school year 2022/2023, the number of side entrants with 3,222 was 15.4 percent, as FAZ.net reports .

The lack of teachers is a key reason for the increased number of side entrants in Brandenburg. The proportion is higher, especially in rural regions, while it tends to be lower in the area of ​​Berlin. In order to cope with the current situation, teachers should teach an hour more an hour from the second half of the coming school year, with the exception of support and vocational schools as well as social focal point schools.

side entry and qualification

The access for side entrants usually takes place for people with a university degree, which includes at least four years, or an equivalent university of applied sciences. Before they use, all side entrants receive basic educational qualification in order to achieve the level of training that corresponds to the teacher qualification of fundamentally trained teachers. These qualification measures are aimed at ensuring the suitability of the side entrants so that schools can be filled with qualified staff as best as possible, such as mbjs.brandenburg.de

In addition, side entrants with non -teaching -related master's degree through part -time preparatory services and successful votes can obtain teaching qualifications. The educational landscape in Brandenburg has already adapted to these new challenges and offers special courses and dual courses in order to specifically counteract the shortage of teachers.

Latest research, including through the dissertation by Rolf Puderbach at the Technical University of Dresden, addresses different approaches to the teaching profession, including the side entry. The dissertation, which was published in 2023, encompasses comprehensive analyzes to professional access and illuminates the professional skills of non -fundamentally qualified teachers. This work shows that the need for empirical studies on the professional performance of transverse and side entrants according to qucosa.de is still high.

Overall, the increasing number of side entrants represents a reaction to the continued lack of teaching.