The New Zealand Educational Institute Te Riu Roa is hosting a summit to address growing concerns about teacher workforce pressures. Mark Potter, the Institute’s president, emphasized the need for a long-term strategy to stabilize and improve the teaching profession over the next 10 to 20 years, to counter frequent, reactive changes in education. He noted that teaching is becoming less attractive due to low remuneration and high stress compared to other professions, which is impacting recruitment and retention. Some schools, like Randwick School, are struggling with staffing shortages so severe that principals are filling in as teachers. The overall sentiment is that the teaching workforce is at a breaking point, needing urgent and effective solutions.
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