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Originally Posted by Unregistered
UT trainee here. Can anyone enlighten me why most BTs are miserable in school? Is it because they are new and thus learning the ropes or are they burdened with work? I also notice GEO5 really senior teachers working much much less while not a single finger is being pointed at them for doing bare minimum. The sight of this makes me think twice before commiting after my UT stint.
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I think a lot of older teachers forget how hard it is to be a BT.
BT life is difficult because they have to juggle (1) learning the ropes (2) plus dealing with additional work (due to manpower crunch in many schools) at the same time. BTs are supposed to be given off-loading (fewer timetable periods than other teachers) to learn, but in some schs some are not given that because o manpower constraints.
Some BTs are also given a lot of other duties in the name of development. But alongside those developmental projects (can write in EPMS kind), they are also bear the brunt of the ‘saikang’ duties in sch like AOE duty/be a warm body for chaperoning that KPs/more senior teachers may be exempt from/get out of more easily. All these duties add up.