The new curricula will apply from fall 2023. The School Attendees’ union has criticized the concepts, saying some of the concepts are “illegally written” and cannot be implemented in practice. “To what extent experts have actually worked here is a question for me,” says the chairman of the Vienna Schools Union, Thomas Krebs, in the Krone conversation with Jana Pasching. “I don’t see the handwriting of practitioners here.” The authorities would ignore the reality of the schools.
“It is incomprehensible to us why this concept is being published now”, it would have been better if we had thought about it in peace. There is always a shortage of staff in schools. “The more theoretical bubbles that are formed, the less time there is for teaching,” Krebs says. This is one of the biggest challenges: “Give the teachers time to teach again.”
In concrete terms, there is a lack of care for the teachers, and specialist staff is needed to provide support. “We take jobs in school that we were never trained for. I think our downside is that sometimes we don’t do so badly. In order to enforce interdisciplinary competences, as in the new curriculum, the teaching staff must first be relieved. “So we can focus on class again.” This is on the one hand the cognitive area of learning, but also the social and emotional area should not be neglected. If you also want to learn interdisciplinary skills, that takes time, ‘and we don’t have those’.
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