Education Requires Teachers, Not Talents
The school year opened with a strike by the Secondary School Teachers' Organization. The background for the strike is the huge shortage of teachers, especially in scientific subjects, and the new idea from the Ministry of Education: to bring in "talents" - engineers or researchers without teaching certificates - who will be employed as contract workers and introduced into classrooms without any pedagogical training. Prof. Michal Zion, head of the Biology Teaching Training Program at Bar-Ilan University, writes about this: