Where is the teacher?

Xinhua News Agency, Changsha, February 23rd: The school will start soon. Where is the teacher? -President Shan's New Year's wishes

Xinhua News Agency reporter Yuan Ruting

"Finding a teacher is a worry for me every Spring Festival. After the Spring Festival, it is not far from leaving school. " Every year during the Spring Festival holiday, Jiang Wuzhong, the principal of Li Xi Town Central Primary School in ningyuan county, Hunan Province, plans how to fill the teacher gap next semester.

But this year, Wujiang's heartfelt calculation finally gained some confidence.

Ningyuan county, Yongzhou, Hunan Province, has Jiuyi Mountain in the south and Yang Dan in the north, which happens to be located in the mountain nest. In the 20 17 poverty-stricken counties publicity just released in February in Hunan province, Ningyuan is one of the seven key counties for poverty alleviation and development in the province.

For many years, the shortage of teachers has been a difficult problem in this mountainous county, especially in village teaching points. This problem is more prominent every time just after the Spring Festival and the spring semester is about to begin.

At present, there are more than a dozen teachers in nine teaching points under the jurisdiction of Li Xi Complete Primary School, of which only 1 is a teacher in editing, and the rest are retired teachers, substitute teachers and teaching teachers.

Sanyuanling Village is very small, and it is one of the nine rural teaching points under the jurisdiction of Li Xi Complete Primary School. There are kindergartens, first and second grades, and about fifty or sixty children. The campus is a small courtyard, and two short teaching buildings stand opposite each other. Standing at the school gate, I looked up and looked around, surrounded by mountains.

Yang Bixian, the teaching director of Li Xi Complete Primary School, told the reporter that last semester, the first-grade teacher in Sanyuanling Village was a substitute teacher hired from the village, and the second-grade teacher was taught by two volunteer teachers. At the end of the semester, two volunteers left to find a teacher for the coming spring semester, which became the new year's knot of the principal and dean.

"Let's look from the village first to see if anyone is willing to substitute, because finding a local teacher is the most stable and will not change people for several months. If you can't find it, send the teaching recruitment information again. " Yang Bixian said.

In the past two years, we have faced a new challenge. "This spring, five teachers in our school will take maternity leave. There are many female teachers, and once the second child policy is released, the pressure on school teachers will be even greater. " Jiang Wuzhong said that school is about to start, and we should quickly invite substitute teachers and lecturers to fill the vacancy of "mother teacher".

The reporter learned that the "mother-teacher gap" brought by "having a second child" is a common challenge in mountainous areas and some rural areas such as ningyuan county in Yongzhou and Tongdao County in Huaihua. At Shouchong Teaching School, which is under the jurisdiction of Dupo Central School in Tongdao County, the substitute teacher is pregnant with a second child and can't continue to substitute. This year's Spring Festival, the school is also inviting people to find teachers everywhere.

"Although the task of finding a teacher in spring has come, I think the spring of rural teachers has also come." Jiang Wuzhong said that during the Spring Festival this year, his mood was much relaxed, because on the whole, the situation of rural teachers has greatly improved in the past two years.

He counted an account for the reporter with his fingers: "Our rural teachers have township subsidies and talent allowances, which are about 1000 yuan more than county teachers every month; The allowance for the head teacher is also 500 yuan per month, which is 300 yuan more than the county seat. The talent allowance for teaching points in the village is 200 more than that of primary school teachers every month. In the past two years, the improvement in the treatment of rural teachers is real. "

Yang Bixian, who tries to find a teacher every year, feels the same way-thanks to a series of preferential policies such as improving treatment, teachers in rural schools are accelerating enrichment and rejuvenation. "In the past two or three years, more than 30 young teachers have come to Li Xi Primary School. They bring vitality, vitality and hope. "

In fact, according to the data of Ningyuan County Education Bureau, since the next semester of 20 17, the phenomenon of teachers' "going out of the city" and "going into the city" has changed gratifying, and the enthusiasm of rural teachers for going into the city is fading.

With the promulgation of "China Rural Teacher Support Plan (20 15-2020)", many provinces, cities, districts and counties in China have issued corresponding policies, and ningyuan county is no exception. The detailed rules for the implementation of ningyuan county are clear, starting from 20 16, the monthly living allowance for rural teachers (including teaching teachers) should reach more than 1000 yuan; The subsidy standard for rural teachers is not less than 500 yuan per person per month; Implement a free medical examination system; In the selection of key teachers in the compulsory education stage of the county, take out no less than 35% of the total number of rural teachers. ...

The substitute teacher also ushered in the dawn. "Since last year, our county finance has given each substitute teacher a monthly subsidy of 1500 yuan, which is calculated according to one year 10 month and distributed according to the head." Jiang Wuzhong said that if they are willing to invest, they will certainly achieve remarkable results. This Spring Festival, they have enough confidence and greater confidence to find a teacher for the school.

"Education is the cause of educating people. No matter how remote the place is, as long as there are teachers, there are classrooms and spirits. It is not a day's work to fill the gap of rural teachers. So many good policies, so much investment and determination. I think the spring of teachers is coming. " Jiang Wuzhong said. (End)