The Yokohama City Board of Education will set up a special selection system for third-year students recommended by the university for the 2023 elementary school teacher employment exam.It is believed that this is the first time in Japan that a third-year university student has been offered a teaching position as a result of criticizing the fact that many students give up teaching and find employment at general companies due to the late timing of teaching appointments.
According to the Yokohama Municipal Board of Education, in the special selection process, applicants are exempted from the first-stage exam based on documents submitted by the university, and the success or failure of applicants is determined by a second-stage exam based on essays, mock classes, and interviews.Successful applicants will be announced in October 1, and the final offer will be announced in April 2 after taking into consideration the academic performance of the third year of university.The specific number of recruits will be decided in March.Even if you fail the special selection, you can take the teacher employment examination to be held the following year.
In the teacher recruitment examination, there is a serious turnover among university teachers, and the decline in the hiring ratio is often viewed as a problem.As the work of teachers becomes busy, the shortage of personnel is becoming more serious, and there is no end to the number of boards of education that are troubled by the shortage of teachers.
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology is requesting boards of education in prefectures and ordinance-designated cities to move up the timing of the recruitment examination and consider conducting it multiple times. .In response to this, some boards of education, such as the Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education and the Sagamihara City Board of Education, have made it possible for third-year university students to take part of the employment exams, but the Yokohama City Board of Education has gone a step further by issuing unofficial job offers to third-year students. It was to be.
