TOKYO — One in 4 teachers chargeable for the technology element of the “Technology and Home Economics” topic at public junior high colleges in addition to decrease secondary departments of Schools for Special Needs Education throughout Japan didn’t maintain a daily educating license in technology, it has been realized.
The subject got here to mild in a survey carried out by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology that was launched on June 29. Under the Courses of Study for the upcoming time period, it plans to separate the technology element into its personal “Information and Technology” topic to strengthen college students’ data literacy. The ministry goals to eradicate the licensing shortfall by the 2028 tutorial 12 months.
According to the survey, there have been 9,649 junior high school teachers nationwide assigned to show technology. Of these, 2,406 teachers, or 24.9%, didn’t maintain a daily educating license within the topic.
Among them, 543 teachers, or 5.6%, held non permanent educating licenses with restricted phrases as an alternative of common licenses. Another 1,863 teachers, or 19.3%, had been assigned to show the topic for as much as one 12 months underneath a system that enables teachers licensed in different topics to show technology.
By prefecture and ordinance-designated metropolis, the very best shares of technology teachers with out common licenses had been present in Wakayama Prefecture at 71%, Oita Prefecture at 69% and Miyazaki Prefecture at 66%.
In September of final 12 months, the training ministry formulated an enchancment plan to strengthen the educating system. Working with training boards throughout the nation, it is going to help massive scale on-line coaching packages and different efforts to encourage teachers to acquire full licenses.
A draft report presently underneath dialogue by the working group chargeable for revising the Courses of Study for subsequent time period additionally refers back to the scarcity as “a critical issue in which an adequate teaching system has not been established.” Additionally, it identified that enhancements ought to transfer ahead with out ready for the brand new tips to take impact.
(Japanese authentic by Kanami Ikawa, Tokyo City News Department)