Teachers replaced by athletes, artists and business leaders
People from various professional backgrounds will be added to the city’s pool of substitute teachers from next year
Substitute pool expanded
“Teachers regularly have to follow extra training,” Antwerp’s education alderman, Claude Marinower, told Gazet Van Antwerpen. “They are then absent from school for half a day or a whole day, which means students currently have to carry out study work or be integrated into other classes. Next year, the schools from the different networks will be able to call on a replacement teacher from the substitute pool.” The substitutes will receive the necessary training to give classes.
The substitute pool, which is currently made up of about 20 people, is also one of the measures to attract more people from different backgrounds to the education sector. Recent statistics show, according to Gazet van Antwerpen, that there could be a shortage of 1,500 teachers by 2020 in Antwerp’s primary education because of the population growth.
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