In Saxony, the working hours of teachers will be closely examined over the entire next school year. Such a "fundamental" representative analysis is unique in Germany, said Minister of Culture Christian Piwarz (CDU) in Dresden on Wednesday. The commissioned economic research company Prognos AG selected a total of 4,100 civil servant and salaried teachers with various working time models in a nationwide random sample across all types of public schools. This corresponds to around 15 percent of the teaching staff, as project manager Kristina Stegner said. 410 head teachers also took part.
Teaching only reflects the visible part of teachers' working hours, said Piwarz. The rest, such as time for preparation and follow-up work or other things, is in a "black box" into which light is now to be shed. "We don't know exactly how it is, we only have assumptions and suppositions from discussions with teachers." The aim is to identify resources and improve work processes. The question is, for example, whether everything the teachers do has to be done by a teacher or whether someone else could do it.
