Challenges and Solutions in the Teaching Profession Amid Global Crises

The teaching profession is facing various challenges such as shortages of teachers, attracting fewer young people, and an ageing teacher population. These issues are exacerbated by global crises like economic downturns, public health emergencies, and environmental threats. Professor Howard Stevenson highlights the importance of rethinking working conditions, remuneration, and work-life balance to address the attractiveness of the teaching profession. The report by the European Trade Union Committee for Education sheds light on the scale and shape of the problem in European education systems.

• Teaching profession
• Global crises
• Teacher shortages
• Working conditions
• Education activism

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1. Lessons in Organising: Education activism in an age of crises ASTI Annual Convention Wexford, Ireland 11thApril, 2023 Professor Howard Stevenson University of Nottingham

2. The attractiveness of the teaching profession . . . A report published by European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE) and the European Federation of Education Employers (EFEE) Authors: Howard Stevenson and Alison Milner (2023)

3. The age of crises . . . Global economic crisis in 2008 and its 2023 variant the cost of living crisis Public health crisis Covid 19 and the global pandemic Geo-political crises - conflict, war and mass migration Environmental crisis and the existential threat to a sustainable planet

4. The crisis of teacher supply . . . The teaching profession has been going through a vocational crisis for some years now, attracting fewer young people and losing others who have been trained to become teachers. Many European education systems are now suffering from shortages of teachers. This can significantly hinder the delivery of quality teaching and learning. (Teachers in Europe: Careers, Development and Wellbeing. Eurydice, 2021)

5. The scale and shape of the problem Problem Shortages Country BEde, IE, HR, RO, UK-WLS, AL, MK, FR, UK-SCT, NO, DE, LV, LU, NL, CZ, AT, PL, CH, BG, EE, HU, SE, IS, BEfr, BEnl, DK, UK-ENG LI, EL, ES, IT, LT, PT Shortages and oversupply Over supply CY, TR, UK-NIR Eurydice, 2021

6. Supply side problems Problem ITE shortages (low applications and/or high dropout) Teacher dropout Teacher dropout and ITE shortages An ageing teacher population Country FR, UK-SCT, NO, DE, LV, LU, NL, LT, PT, RS, MT BG, LI EE, HU, BE, IS, Befr, BEnl, DK, UK-ENG DE, LV, LU, NL, CZ, AT, PL, CH, BG, EE, HU, SE, IS, LI, EL, ES, IT, LT, PT

7. Thinking about the attractiveness of the teaching profession: re-thinking the problem Work Working conditions Remuneration Work-life balance Stevenson and Milner (2023)

8. Thinking about the attractiveness of the teaching profession: re-thinking the problem Teachers have high work intensity and low task discretion Work Green (2021) Working conditions Remuneration Work-life balance Stevenson and Milner (2023)

9. What this looks like . . .

10. Building strong education unions Organising teaching: developing the power of the profession (2017) Your Turn: Teachers for trade union renewal (2020) Lessons in Organising: what trade unionists can learn from the war on teachers (2023)

11. Lessons in Organising 1.Organise at the workplace 2.Organise around ideas 3.Organise the organisers