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Originally Posted by JustAnotherPrimaryTeacher
Did you hear your RO tell you exactly that 'community impact' is one of the criteria for GEO2 or GEO3 for that matter (since we are talking about potential to be promoted to the next subgrade). If they explicitly say it is one of the criteria and you never meet, you are allowed to challenge it.
The latest document sent out to KPs with regards to each subgrade's expectation, teaching/leadership/specialist track etc. will list down in black and white.
But if the RO says that in your school, there are other GEO 2s who go above and beyond, impact community with what they are doing, so they get a better PB, that ain't wrong either. Because you will be ranked against colleagues of the same subgrade. So take a look at what the other GEO 2s in your school are doing also, and the performance grade they received.
impacting community is not expected requirement at GEO2/3/4, so doing that is exceeding expectation (just for this stakeholders portion though). But it should not be the reason why you were not promoted (not getting a good Perf Grade, yes possible). So maybe try to recall the conversation..
And change schools if indeed your current one has too many strong GEO 2/3s who go above and beyond.
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May be I don't want to use the exact example my RO gave me. But basically, he said my Coordinator roles last year were not impactful enough, since the events I coordinated is all within the school. I gave him an example of what I coordinated that is beyond the school, then he said the coordination is not difficult enough.
Now I really doubt on the contract I have signed. Am I a teacher or event manager? Should I be spending more time preparing lesson to teach or thinking about how to bring impact to the organization outcome? I'm just a GEO 2 and I have to consider about organization outcome. If that's the case, I suggest
NIE can start teaching Event Management modules.
Now I also understand why sometimes there are irrelevant activities suddenly pop out on the school calendar, taking teachers' normal curriculum lesson time away. Because there are people keep trying to showcase themselves at the expense of students' curriculum time.
Really, now I question my career choice. I don't know it's the education system, my school or me.