teacher shortage
Not enough instructors
A teacher shortage is a situation where schools cannot fill teaching positions with qualified candidates.
The term describes both absolute shortages—more positions than available teachers—and quality shortages, where positions get filled but not by people with proper credentials or subject expertise.
Teacher shortages tend to concentrate in certain subjects like math and special education, and in schools serving low-income communities: The district's teacher shortage forced them to hire uncertified instructors.
- staffingProviding personnel for positions
- crisisDecisive dangerous moment
- recruitmentSeeking new personnel
- classroomsEducational instruction spaces
- vacanciesUnfilled positions available
burnout · retention · hiring · job fair · substitutes · overcrowded · class sizes · underpaid · low pay · educators · public schools · resignations · qualifications · rural · certification · workload · career change · attrition
- shortages
- school problemsdropout rates, overcrowding, school funding, budget cuts, bullying
- Rural Educationrural schools, one-room schoolhouse, one-room schools, village schools, rural communities
- rural schoolsrural school, small class sizes, rural district, one-room schools, one-room school
- wartime educationcurriculum changes, educational broadcasts, school closures, school reform, educational reform
- German Educationkindergarten, education ministry, comprehensive schools, education policy, technical universities