Teaching guarantee
The tuition guarantee or tuition guarantee (plus) is a concept of the Hessian state government to avoid missed lessons at general schools.
Teaching guarantee
The Hessian CDU , still as an opposition party, criticized the cancellation of lessons at Hessian schools, which made up up to 10% of the lesson table, and presented the teaching guarantee as one of the central election promises as a remedy in the 1999 state election campaign. The main idea behind the concept of guaranteed tuition was to offer a reliable school , i.e. H. the guarantee that students will not be sent home early because of missed lessons. This should make it easier for the mothers to combine children and work.
After the state elections in 1999, the CDU was able to form a government together with the FDP . As a result, 3,000 additional teaching positions were created, of which, however, approx. 1,200 positions were lost again due to the later introduced extension of working hours for the Hessian civil servants.
The opposition criticized this policy as having failed and pointed out that, despite the noticeably improved student / teacher ratio and the now nominally fully covered lesson table, lessons were still canceled (albeit to a much lesser extent). B. to complain about illness of the teachers. The "guarantee" was therefore not redeemed.
Lessons guarantee (plus)
After the CDU was able to achieve an absolute majority in the state elections in 2003, the concept of the teaching guarantee (plus) was developed in the Hessian Ministry of Education under the direction of Education Minister Karin Wolff as a reaction to the continuing absence of classes .
This has been in effect since the 2006/07 school year and, like the tuition guarantee, is intended to ensure that no tuition in grades 1 to 10 takes place in the morning (i.e. within the 6 hours of the morning as indicated in the school schedule of the individual students) Schools in the state of Hesse fail more.
The concept envisages that the schools receive 1000 € per full-time teacher position for substitution and can use this amount independently - with some restrictions. To this end, the schools are to form so-called representation pools. These representative pools should include people who can either look after the students or possibly also teach. The headmaster should decide who is qualified for what. Depending on their qualifications, the persons from the representative pool should receive different salaries per employment contract (no BAT contracts). The pupils are to be instructed by the - if necessary qualified - representative staff, who use a "material pool" compiled by the trained teachers . This pool of materials should contain teaching materials that allow every person to have a good lesson in any subject without much preparation and training in any class, grade or type of school.
If one of their regular teachers is absent at short notice (i.e. up to 5 weeks) due to illness, the pupils should receive supervision for the first two subject lessons. From the third technical lesson onwards, “specialist instruction” should actually be given. This lesson should z. Partly by the regular teachers (as before) and by the people who have made themselves available on call as representative pool members . However, “subject teaching” does not mean that the subject actually omitted has to be taught.
This project was heavily criticized by the opposition, the GEW and a number of school principals. In particular, the possibility of employing people without pedagogical training (e.g. craftsmen, sports trainers, parents, retirees, non-teaching students) was among other things. a. denounced with the note that one also does not use butchers in surgery . However, according to § 30a of the law, an extended certificate of good conduct is required from the education authority.
In June 2006, due to protests by school principals against this concept , Karin Wolff announced that if they refused to do so, they would be punished.
Reliable school
In the election campaign for the state elections in Hesse in 2008 , school policy played a significant role. The former opposition parties SPD, Bündnis90 / Die Grünen and Die Linke announced the abolition of the teaching guarantee (plus) in the event of an election victory.
In June 2008 the Hessian school law was changed with the votes of red-red-green. The adopted draft law of the SPD parliamentary group provided for the guarantee of lessons (i.e. the guarantee of adherence to the lesson table) to be replaced by a "guarantee of a reliable school time at least between 08:00 and 13:00. This regulation was approved by the CDU and FDP as well as in In the context of the hearing in the state parliament, assessed as rigid and inflexible.
So criticized z. B. the employers' association VhU: "The strict time corridor unnecessarily obliges the schools to more effort and higher costs, as they have to guarantee fixed childcare times regardless of the timetable." and lists as an example a class that has 25 hours of weekly tuition. The school has to guarantee an additional 5 hours of care here. If two lessons have to be put in one afternoon due to the timetable, two more hours of supervision are added.
The highly controversial use of teachers without a teacher training course is confirmed in the law and specified in Section 86 (6) of the Hessian School Act.
Development of the student / teacher relationship
According to the information from the Hessian State Office for Statistics, the number of pupils and teachers at the general schools in Hesse has developed as follows:
| school year | Number of students | Number of teachers |
|---|---|---|
| 1999/2000 | 695,342 | 43,740 |
| 2000/2001 | 697.159 | 44,016 |
| 2001/2002 | 698.945 | 45,021 |
| 2002/2003 | 701.289 | 45,832 |
| 2003/2004 | 704.016 | 47.093 |
| 2004/2005 | 702,804 | 45,302 (*) |
| 2005/2006 | 701.057 | 45,388 |
| 2006/2007 | 694,535 | 46,619 |
| 2007/2008 | 680.430 | 47,328 |
| 2008/2009 | 674,677 | 48,308 |
| 2009/2010 | 668.365 | 49,878 |
| 2010/2011 | 659.981 | 50.176 |
(*) Due to the extension of working hours for Hessian civil servants, the number of hours per teaching position will increase by 2 hours per teacher from 2004.
Degree of consent by those concerned
In November 2006, the Hessischer Rundfunk interviewed 5,000 school principals, school parents' councils and school representatives from all Hessian schools. The main results of the study were:
- 73% of those questioned are in favor of the Lesson Guarantee Plus
- 62% are of the opinion that the substitute teachers offer specialist instruction
- 76% are of the opinion that the substitute teachers meet with acceptance
Detailed results:
Entirety:
- 62% are of the opinion that Uplus employees often / always give specialist lessons
- 38% are of the opinion that Uplus employees rarely / never give specialist lessons
Parents:
- 57% of parents are of the opinion that many / only qualified workers were found
- 43% of parents are of the opinion that hardly any / no qualified workers have been found
- 75% of parents are of the opinion that Uplus powers are accepted
- 25% of parents are of the opinion that Uplus powers are not accepted
Principal:
- 75% of the school principals are of the opinion that Uplus forces are accepted
- 25% of the school principals are of the opinion that Uplus forces are not accepted
- 29% of principals believe that they many / only qualified people found
- 71% of principals feel that they little / no qualified people found
- 09% of the school principals do not feel overloaded with the administrative burden
- 91% of school heads feel overwhelmed with the administrative burden
Student:
- 22% of the students are of the opinion that Uplus forces are accepted
- 78% of the students are of the opinion that Uplus forces are not accepted
- 58% of the students are of the opinion that many / only qualified workers were found
- 42% of the students are of the opinion that hardly any / no qualified workers have been found
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- ↑ Law and decree "Reliable School" ( Memento of the original of September 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Bill of the SPD ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ § 15a Hessian School Act, new
- ↑ Comments on the hearing in the state parliament committee ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Information from the Hessian State Statistical Office on the student / teacher ratio ( memento of the original from October 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ HR survey ( memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
