Little kitten
The term Mikätzchen (male form also: Mikater ) referred jokingly teachers in North Rhine-Westphalia , on the initiative of Culture Minister Paul Mikat to simplified conditions as " lateral entrants came" to the teaching profession.
background
This step took the NRW state government in the 1960s, the baby boomers to beschulen better and the number of students in the due shortage of teachers not to let overcrowded classes rise above 50th Anyone who had the Abitur and thus the right to take up a teaching degree could become a teacher in the Mikatschen Schnellverfahren. In addition to the activity, training and further education were offered, which were intended to raise the knowledge profile of the "little kittens" to the level of their academically fully trained colleagues. In 1963, 1910 women and 434 men began their training and began teaching in January 1964. 1200 of those who had switched to teaching later made use of the option of a shortened teaching degree in order to finally be accepted into school service.
In the meantime, the established teaching staff was concerned that “less qualified” colleagues could be given unjustified preference. "Little kittens" were found first and foremost in the public school service, i. H. in the schools from which the elementary and secondary schools emerged a few years later . Due to their age, there are no longer any baby kittens in school today.
Current side entry programs
Since the early 2000s there has been a program in North Rhine-Westphalia for the recruitment of so-called lateral entrants, the approach of which is similar to the procedure of the 1960s for the introduction of the "little kittens" to deal with the problems of over-aged teachers, a high proportion of missed hours and a high level of sick leave (id Usually> 10%; in industry around 3%). The hiring of teachers on these so-called “ school-specific positions ” falls to a school committee, consisting of the principal and persons from the school representatives.
In the early days of the new program under the aegis of Gabriele Behler , a high proportion of the so-called “school-specific vacancies” were filled by fully qualified teachers (with a second state examination) who, like applicants without a second state examination, can also apply for the advertised positions.
The recruitment process is accompanied by ranking requirements of the regional councils with a list of possible vacancies who have already passed the second state examination, staggered according to examination grades. These lists entail the argumentative compulsion for schools to fill a vacancy with an external person without a second state examination with such good, strong reasons that this recruitment measure may be "administrative court proof" if a rejected applicant with a second state examination can take legal action against a Rejection takes place.
Web links
- History of NRW 1963
- Mirror 1969
- The return of the baby kittens. Deutschlandfunk on March 4, 2003
Individual evidence
- ^ History of North Rhine-Westphalia 1963
- Jump up ↑ Mikitty and Mikater . Tagesspiegel, June 13, 2012