#teacher-shortage

#teacher-shortage

If Germany could choose a well-trained teacher from abroad, it would probably be someone like Inge Pizarro Krause. With her eight years of study and two years of classroom experience in Vina del Mar, the 33-year-old from Chile is highly qualified and is now preparing to tackle Germany's desperate teacher shortage. Pizarro Krause has been studying German, didactics and pedagogy under the special program since August. And she has already had a taste of teaching at a vocational school.

Tadgh O'Donovan, science teacher in Carrigaline Community School and content creator @teachwithtadgh, took a chance during the pandemic, and he hasn't looked back since

Within nine months, he had filled those vacancies with Filipino teachers, the majority of whom arrived on the H-1B, a visa for skilled workers in specialty occupations. "We've hired the H-1B teachers because we quite simply didn't have other applicants for those positions," Coverdale said. "So they're certainly not taking jobs from Americans. They're filling jobs that otherwise just simply we would not get filled."