Teacher Shortage? You mean a shortage of respect for teachers! You mean a shortage of fair pay! There is no shortage of teachers. We are just tired.

Teachers are watching this to know where all the ex-teachers went so they can go there too. 😂😂😂

Where have we gone? We’re still out here, watching, and hope everyone figures it out. I for one would like to return. But I’ve raised my standards, so we’ll see if/how things really change. This isn’t exactly what I was expecting when I got a masters degree to teach, but life does throw us some curveballs. Parents, local, and state admin need to get it together for the kid’s sake.

My daughters school is switching to 4 day school week. Im hoping the teachers will be getting a raise as well . They work so hard they all deserve it ❤

At the end of the day, teachers just don't want to have mental break downs every day of the week

You started teaching the same year I did. So much has changed for the worse since then. Nobody wants to be a teacher anymore. Those few of us left are carrying burdens we never dreamed of. More than half of the people teaching at my school are long-term substitutes. I’m gravely concerned about the quality of education our students are receiving.

I taught for 13 years in the brick and mortar as a Special Education teacher. I left in July 2020. I left because the paperwork had become worse and the lack of support from the principal and some of the members from the Special Education department. Now, I am building my business as a financial advisor.

We are still here. Just finding a place where we will be valued. Educators aren’t martyrs and shouldn’t be expected to be.

The reason I left teaching was not what came with Covid and the year after is not what made me leave teaching. It is the teacher evaluation system that the district was starting to use. Was told it wasn't being used as punishment or I got you but help improve teaching skills. That is not how it was used. It was away to micromanage and an instrument to make a person feel less than human. It is an instrument to put every teacher in the same box and teach exactly the same way. I was not a new teacher but a veteran teacher. This made a person feel less valued and not respected as an individual and a professional teacher. I loved teaching and was very passionate about it for many years.

If I were to reapply to public school, I would make it known that I would be interviewing them and not the other way around. After 31 years as a special educator, I know my worth and what I am willing to accept.

I started teaching in the '90s and this will be my last year. I cannot do it anymore. Horrible pay, no support, being scratched, bit and slapped by 3 and 4 year olds with no consequences and no support. Physical abusive is happening towards teachers on a regular basis. You can only take so much before saying, "enough is enough". I've had enough.

Good teachers can teach anything as long as they aren't being assaulted by their students and spending the majority if their time "managing" classroom behavior...while administrators refuse to acknowledge the real reason teachers are leaving the profession while providing little support or respect for the teachers.

I did my student teaching in 2016, but ended up dropping out because I couldn't handle the stress of all the testing standards. I love to think outside of the box and make education fun for the kids, but most school districts don't like that style of teaching. I knew tons of teachers before entering an education program, and they all told me not to become a teacher because of the direction of education. Then when Covid hit, I don't think I would have been able to handle all of the changes that took place. Over the past couple of years I have become intrigued with education around the world. I started researching education in Finland since they have the best education system in the world, and I was shocked at the fact that they don't have any homework. That and the kids are allowed to have fun while learning. I would have enjoyed school a lot more, if we had something similar to what Finland has.

The US needs to look at what is working in Education in other countries. I have taught in four countries, the US, S. Korea, Sweden and Malaysia. By far the US Missouri school was the worst working conditions and the kids the least prepared for their grade level. No other country has as many teaching hours, class size is about average, no other place requires coaching or regular extra duties. No other place has mass shooter drills. Most other countries have about 20 planning hours, for teachers to prepare, in the US it is 5 hours. Sports are not provided by schools, they are ran by the government outside of school. The popular kids are the kids that work hard and get high grades, not the jocks. In Sweden, middle school students are not allowed to have more than one hour of home work per day. The subject teachers have to coordinate each other to make sure kids have have only two tests per week or other major assessments. Sweden has copied some of Finland's educational policies. My "mentor" at my Missouri school was a wrestling coach, so he didn't have time for mentoring and told me he didn't. I had to coach soccer, both fall and spring, so I didn't have time for mentoring. My mentor in Sweden and my co-teacher in Korea would meet with me once a week and we would discuss what was working and what wasn't.

It's because the government and heads of schools look at those teachers as slaves or robots that don't need breaks, and can just work non-stop with no life of their own. We are tired, we are stressed and we are DONE

They have really relaxed the standards for Ted Talks.

Wow-- three teachers/adults in the same room?!? Amazing--that's a miracle 👏 🙀 😮

She points to the fact that special education teachers represent much of the shortages, but does she ever mention the paperwork that teachers are expected to do? Teachers have been complaining about this for years. These paperwork requirements are not organic, nor are they necessary for learning. They seem to serve three purposes: to justify admin jobs, to cover districts' legal butts, and to decrease sped costs by not filling positions -- because they cannot find or keep teachers!

I'm far more engaged with the comments than the talk itself. Priceless words from you all. I've been a teacher for 30 years and couldn't agree more even when living and working in a foreign country

Did he even mention the number 1 reason for teacher shortage?! daily, classrooms are chaotic, students loud and disruptive, and can be violent... and nothing is done about it. And I mean nothing, zero help.

As a 20 year veteran desperately trying to find a way out, I can relate. (for the record, it wasn't the pandemic, it was how we were treated when we came back) I do wonder what the retention rate is for less than highly qualified teachers. Do they stay in the system and pursue credentials?

The problem is teacher are to smart and figure out teaching isn’t the move . We get paid so little we are under appreciate and we are always to blame. The school system as lost placing accountability on the students and parents and less on the teachers. I only taught for one year and I rather work up north earning double or triple the salary despite the amount of work than be in school being degraded by administrators parents and students

Who’s paying you, Dr. Schwartze? When I know, then I’ll listen to your talk (or maybe not).

Academic training past the age of 13 should be for those who are academically inclined and no one else. For the majority who are violently anti-intellectual, poorly behaved, and incapable of reading up to grade level there should be trades training, meaning no further academic lectures which they would of course simply ignore. We have a fantasy school system in which we pretend to be teaching the uneducable which always turns into a farce. This fantasy system is furthered through the vehicle of social promotion in which non-learners are promoted to placate the anxious parents. You might’ve thought that this would be common knowledge by now but apparently it isn’t. So long as everyone continues to ignore the ongoing fiasco the regular certified teachers will continue bailing out to be replaced by permanent substitutes. Then when the permanent substitutes quit as well they in turn will need to be replaced by computers and then the public schools will devolve into online academy monitored by paid babysitters, whatever you choose to call the babysitters. Will those babysitters be required to have degrees? If so then I would recommend that they get their degrees in babysitting instead of academic subjects, because all they’re going to be doing is babysitting, just as if they’d gotten a job at a daycare center.

As a country, we need to prioritize and fund Education just like we fund our defense budget. Stop politicians from using education as a way to advance their own agenda. Really! Learn from Finland education system or Singapore education system. Today's kids are the country's future.

In any profession it's terrific to have dedicated enthusiastic staff. However, no profession except teaching, not ever medicine, expects miracle workers.

As a retired teacher who was forced into retirement in 2012,(toxic administration). Some of the things that are critical for teachers would be( of course),a teacher teacher pay raise, but just as important would be, more teacher aids in the classrooms, as well as not allowing administrators to place teachers aids in classrooms according to their whims. I know of no other profession where the employees are expected to do a critical job,but the administrators are able to move support staff around at a whim.

She looks completely paid off

The culture needs to change. That is the primary reason.

They are going to places where they can make a living in a safe supportive environment...pretty simple

I’m still teaching middle school English and I love it. I like teaching right here in NY State 🍎

We quit that's where we went. Not in a union, in a red state, overworked, not supported, vicious administrators and absurd amount of paperwork that gets bigger every year.

I just retired early as a public school teacher due to burnout. What would make it better for me? ... changing the secondary bell schedule, which currently is very unrealistic and causes too much stress. The bell schedule and everything about public school needs to be trauma informed. During pandemic distance learning our school district modified the secondary schedule to 3 classes in the Fall and 3 classes in the Spring (like college semester system) and classes only met 4 days a week. Less classes meant less work for both students and teachers and less teacher/student ratio. Some secondary teachers have up to 175 students or more, which is crazy! Going back to school as if everything was normal after the pandemic was a big mistake and a lot of students and teachers suffered. I enjoyed the work/life balance from working at home (but not sitting in front of a computer all day and teaching online). Normal is not working. The whole system needs to change to solve the problem of teacher burnout. Let's look to Finland school and their innovations for solutions. Lowering standards and paying more are just bandaids.

I've seen good Tedx Talks, this isn't one of them. I'll tell you where all the teachers have gone...they've fled the classrooms to avoid being subjected to rude, loud, and oftentimes dangerous students, while hilariously being held responsible for them achieving standards written by people who've never been in an actual classroom. Not once does she mention student behavior...unreal!

In 2002…. We were falling behind… where do you think this generation is now?👂🏽🧏🏽‍♀️

they quit because the job is awful.

Teachers (like myself) have left because of the radical progressive liberals steering education in a terrible direction. Indoctrination is not education and vice versa. How much has math content changed? Are basic math facts not still the foundation for all advanced math learning? Does 2+2+4 or does it equal whatever you feel? Crazy times produce crazy outcomes.

The field is attacked

Ummmmm. Did I miss where she said where all the teachers have gone?

Shooting drills and arming teachers. Debate. Debate. Debate. NCLB.

Not true. Teachers could not stand Common Core. I am in year 28 and cannot recall more than three times I have ever been around a parent or another teacher saying anything positive about Common Core. Good grief. Yea, let's have the kids who can't multiply, conceptualize their Word Problems and other math lessons.

Phrase positive views of education? What kind of education? There 3 basic types; public, private & parochial. Public is intended for everyone. Private is for those who can afford it. Parochial exists largely to promote mysticisms. Ever since the contemporary Southern conservatism revolution started our education standards have declined from being in the top 10 worldwide to about 24th today. Using public tax $$ to feed religious education is a betrayal of the public trust that public money would be utilized in a manner that benefits everyone. Handing tax revenue over to private & parochial schools in which only specific individuals benefit is such a betrayal.

Is it bad in the poorer caucasian districts too?

00:01 Uh, no not one; I just wanted to go home and play with my toys.

Skip to 11:00. Otherwise, a waste of time.

Leaving education was the best thing I did. I am an RN now, make much better money and don't have to worry about getting assaulted at work . This woman is so clueless.

The out of control OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING for k-12 has created the "teacher shortages." I'm the author of EIGHT DAYS IN AN INNER CITY SCHOOL

Common Core math is terrible. I am a teacher and I think it is horrible at the high school level. The CPM Book is not good. CC is not for Sped and lower students.

This video and the other TEDx Talk one before focus solely on how teachers are misread, misunderstood, only teaching what they are asked, under the gun and it also focused one how parents don't understand and are wrong. Interesting.

This is not good for so many reasons

Allow the family to immigrate temporarily and finish the process once they are here. At least the once that have been waiting for 10 years.

👎 Where have all the good times gone?… Van Halen No… An Atheist would read a basic physics book called Where did the Towers Go?… An Atheist is a child left behind. Check out Operation Gladio. Who What Why Where When How?

Actually learning how to be a teacher, funny enough teaches u nothing about being a teacher

Here is the problem. It used to be that the best women in the country had few options for jobs, but one of them was teaching. So the best women became teachers. Today women have a lot of options and so the best women rarely go into teaching.