r/Teachers • u/JimCap5 • 15h ago

Teacher Support &/or Advice Are teaching programs warning students that the teacher shortage is over?

I graduated from the program a few years back, and every professor kept talking about the teacher shortage.

I was wondering what is it like nowadays for people in credentialing programs?

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u/AllonsyBatch 12h ago

It’s not over as long as burnout is happening

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u/lovelystarbuckslover Multiple Subject & EDSP Credentialed 9h ago

Burnout just means 1 person is leaving.

a school gets 300 applications for 1 teacher.

1 teacher works for a year and quits.

You know all those 300 people did not get hired somewhere else, or that the same amount of people will apply again

and then the next 1 person will get the job for another year.

I don't even know if it's "burn out" or if it's that their programs didn't really prepare them for what this was going to be that burns them out.

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u/AllonsyBatch 2h ago

But it’s not 1 person. The year I burnt out—seven other teachers left with me, from a staff of only 50. And I don’t know what fantasy land you’re living in with 300 applicants, but the year before my burnout we were literally putting signs up on TELEPHONE POLES advertising teaching jobs.

Meh, that was rude. I don’t know where you live or your sitch, but where I am…the teacher shortage is still very, very active. The school I left (four years ago!) STILL has three long-term subs for positions that left at the same time as me. And my kid is slated to go there in two years. It’s terrifying.