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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Hi, I'm not very sure how I should phrase this, but I'm sure these are quite common problems everywhere.
1. RO likes to dump work on people. RO's pattern is, if you don't have a good reason not to do it, then you should still do it, despite it seeming unfair when others in the department don't have the same workload. And for the people who do it well, they find even more work getting dumped on them to fulfil the department's KPI.
In such scenarios, I don't really know how I should react. Should I keep arguing about unfairness? I've tried explaining nicely, and I knew it was pointless when my RO's response was "Hope you can understand...blahblah". Should I escalate, yet risk my performance grade by my RO?
2. There are some experienced teachers who are extremely close to their own RO, other KPs and STs. I can already see that they don't have to worry much about progression, or having large workloads because of this. However, what's worse is when they feel "threatened" about other people's performance, and try to bring them down by spreading rumours or reporting every little thing to the RO. For teachers, the risk of getting warnings/termination is much higher than other jobs from every little *POSSIBILITY* of accidents/reports, and what's worse is whistleblowing isn't considered an offence if an officer deems it suitable to report (no consequences for whistleblowing). How do you deal with these situations?
3. Students hate their teacher/teacher's teaching style. Comes to find me for help. Sometimes I don't know whether to pity them or to tell them off, because students always seem to be the biggest losers in such controversial situations. Yet if I keep helping them, it not only adds on stress and responsibility to myself, it also embarrasses the other teacher (regardless of whether they really care or not). This is even more dangerous when the other teacher is my RO. How would you deal with this?
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This is adulting. I think it’s impossible to tell you what you should do. Naturally RO will give work to people whom they know can deliver because it is their duty to make sure work gets done. If they are fair, they will naturally give you a better PB. If you fine that after a while you really hate the task since you are not being appreciated, then decline it politely. It is really sad that people are losing the moral courage to say no to things that they don’t believe in doing.
If you find that you really want to do the task but you are overloaded, try to then rally your fellow colleagues to do the task with you. If it is ultimately for the benefit of the children/students, I do not see why educators will say no unless they do not believe that what you are doing will benefit them. Rally them and get the buy in. If you can do it and your HOD can’t, then your SLs will naturally see that you are a better leader.
As for students who find you for help, never entertain them about their teachers’ teaching style. Never ever talk back about your colleagues especially in front of students. It is ultimately your choice to help the students or not. If it is deep down within your passion to help them, then go ahead. But the students must not be skipping your colleague’s lesson to seek help from you. You must know that all these are above and beyond your job scope. If you want to help them, it is because you want to. You can simply reject the students if you do not wish to help them. You must remember that you are only human. Teacher is not god. You cannot help everyone.
As for colleagues spreading rumours, ppl will have eyes to judge for themselves. Time and results will prove that you are capable if you are always doing your job well. Be confident about yourself so that people will know that it is not easy to mess with you.