More and More New Entrants Teach at Schools

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In the meantime, about one in ten teachers at the general education schools without a recognised teacher's examination.

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The number of cross- and side learners in the teacher's profession is increasing. In the general education schools, about one in ten teachers now teach without a recognised teacher's examination.

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Due to the teacher shortage, a growing number of so-called lateral entrants, i.e., teachers without a recognized teaching qualification, are teaching in German schools. According to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), this applied to 10.5% of teachers at general education schools in the 2023/24 school year: around 77,600 of the total 739,500 teachers there did not have a recognized teaching qualification. In the 2015/2016 school year, the…