Local authorities also plan to recruit teachers from among the Ukrainians who arrived in Poland.
Tens of thousands of children from Ukraine have already gone to school in Poland. As a result, the Ministry of Education of Poland is asking pensioners to return to teaching in preparatory classes, and local authorities are recruiting teachers from among the refugees who arrived from Ukraine.
Notesfrompoland writes about this.
According to Polish Education Minister Przemysław Czarnek, in mid-March, 42,500 students from Ukraine were registered in Polish schools. At the same time, these figures remain small compared to the approximately 600,000-650,000 children who arrived in Poland from Ukraine on 24 February. According to the Ministry of Education, if 500 thousand children started attending schools, their education would cost 10 billion zlotys a year.
It is noted that most children from Ukraine went to regular classes in Polish schools. However, the Ministry of Education plans to create more special preparatory classes.
“This is the 'less stressful' and 'most flexible form', especially for students who do not speak Polish,” Czarnek said.
< p>According to him, this does not mean that Ukrainian children will be separated from the Poles. All the children will do physical education together, play games, participate in competitions, etc.
Czarnek says that about 500 preparatory classes have been formed. Financial instruments have also been prepared to provide the means to create them.
As schools are already scrambling to find enough staff, the new rules will allow retired former teachers to return to work in these prep classes. Teachers will also be allowed to work overtime at their own discretion and with the permission of the regional superintendent.
At the same time, the president of the Union of Polish Teachers, Slawomir Broniaz, noted that Polish teachers will also have to deal with the language barrier, but they will manage.< /p>
“We don't know how many children will come to school, we don't know how long. Teachers will also have to deal with the language barrier. I'm sure they can do it, but it will take a lot of effort,” says Broniaz.
Local authorities also plan to recruit teachers from among the Ukrainians who arrived in Poland. Within three days after the creation of a new database of vacancies for Ukrainian teachers, the city employment office in Krakow received 150 applications. A large number of them are people who used to teach in Ukraine.
Some of them speak Polish, although most only know Ukrainian and/or Russian. Therefore, the city authorities are planning language courses in combination with a module to prepare teachers for work in Polish education.
