Shortage of 498,000 teachers in Indonesia next year?

[serious_fun]

The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education said that there will be a shortage of almost 500,000 teachers across Indo next year after considering retirement.

In 2019, Indonesia’s schools needed to hire a million full-time teachers. But the roles were often filled by contract teachers, who lacked quality assurance.

from this blog. One could spin the recruitment of almost 500,000 'teaching staff' within 7 years as a success, but lack of teacher training is a genuine problem.

Perhaps the military could be called in?

 

[Wally]

I worked for over 20 years with the Indonesian central and local governments to improve the allocation and education of teachers. For years Indonesia had a more favourable student : teacher than many (or most) other countries. The problem is the distribution of those teachers:

• Some schools simply have more teachers than they need and local governments are reluctant/afraid to redeploy them to those lacking teachers because teachers don't want to teach in remote areas (where the vacancies are)
• Primary schools expect to have a teacher for every grade (i.e. six teachers) however few students they have. Most countries expect teachers in small schools to teach more than one grade at the same time (multigrade teaching)
• Many secondary school teachers refiuse or claim they are unable to teach more than one subject. The irony is that grade 6 primary school teachers teach every subject, while many grade 7 teachers claim to be only able to teach one subject. Most countries expect secondary school teachers to teach at least 2 subjects
• There are a lot of qualified teachers who are contracted by schools or local government using their own funds rather than being employed as civil servants. They fill in the gaps as well as filling in for civil servant teachers who are simply not doing their jobs. They could be employed on permanent contracts.

This was the situation 3 or 4 years ago before I retired. It may have changed but I doubt it

 

[serious_fun]

I worked for over 20 years with the Indonesian central and local governments to improve the allocation and education of teachers.

Thank you for your intelligent reply!

In your experience is the organization of the various types of schools ( National, National Plus, Madrassah, International, Boarding, etc., etc.) a part of the problem of allocation? Or perhaps the International and religious schools aren't even included in the equation due to their innate independence ?

 

[Helpful Herbert]

I realized the other day that I have never actually seen an adult Muslim read a book, except the one book in a language they barely understand, which they seem to 'read' every day. Reading for pleasure is just not part of the culture.
I'm sure this is a reflection of how poor the education system is. Unfortunately I don't think this can be changed in a few years or even a few decades, regardless of how many teachers there are.

 

[harryopal1]

I wonder to what extent the digital zeitgeis is being analysed regarding its impact on learning. Whenever travelling I read but rarely see another traveller reading. As for students it is said that the addictive impact of social media is even changing the mindsets of students who then struggle to read long texts, skim rather than analyse, expect constant stimulation and find slower learning processes frustrating. And increasingly I guess we will see these patterns with teachers. So how well equipped are teachers coping with all of this and what then are the implications for training of future teachers?

 

[Balifrog]

I wonder to what extent the digital zeitgeis is being analysed regarding its impact on learning. Whenever travelling I read but rarely see another traveller reading. As for students it is said that the addictive impact of social media is even changing the mindsets of students who then struggle to read long texts, skim rather than analyse, expect constant stimulation and find slower learning processes frustrating. And increasingly I guess we will see these patterns with teachers. So how well equipped are teachers coping with all of this and what then are the implications for training of future teachers?

Back to books - Sweden's schools cutting back on digital learning

Swedish classrooms swap laptops for books, pens and paper, raising concerns from the tech sector.

www.bbc.com

Slowly some countries start to understand.....

 

[Balifrog]

I read regulary.
A few of my books.

 

[Wisnu]

I read regulary.
A few of my books.
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And I still take notes by hand

 

[Balifrog]

And I still take notes by hand

Same.

But my grocery shopping list I use an app.

Simply because if I do it the old way, it's only in the supermarket that I realize I left the written list on the table.
Not even speaking about the pen...
The phone I am about sure it's in the pocket.

 

[Hawk256]

I realized the other day that I have never actually seen an adult Muslim read a book, except the one book in a language they barely understand, which they seem to 'read' every day. Reading for pleasure is just not part of the culture.
I'm sure this is a reflection of how poor the education system is. Unfortunately I don't think this can be changed in a few years or even a few decades, regardless of how many teachers there are.

How ofter to you observe Muslims in their home relaxing? Most I know have shelfs full of books. There is also this new fangled thing called ebooks. Not sure why you choose to pick on a certain religion but it gets old quick. You are very offensive and for what?