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Old 09-03-2016, 10:48 PM
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Seems most of the discussion revolves around the pay. I have no teaching experience, only industry experience as a retail manager. Could the existing lecturers share a little on the job expectations? For e.g., I suppose the lecturer hv to come up with lesson plan?
Job expectations is a revolving multi-faceted requirement. If you're Class Advisor, you have your own class to take care and along with it, the administrative aspects such as helping students to get their bursary, chasing after them if they are not attending classes which includes communicating with their parents and finding out why they didn't attend classes and many other miscellaneous stuff like ensuring they attend certain events if the class was "arrowed".

For classroom management, you are required to maintain ground rules, classroom discipline as students can get rowdy if you give too much leeway. Occasionally, you need to perform some patrol duty to catch students who break the rules such as smoking, improper attire, etc.

From the curriculum perspective, once the skill standard is formulated, if you're appointed as the chief module coordinator/module coordinator, you'll get your hands dirty with curriculum development such as coming out with the assessment scheme, table of specifications, the general and specific instructional objectives that dictate the number of theory/practical contact hours, module schedule and of course, the lesson plan for each theory/practical lesson. Naturally, you will be expected to deliver the curriculum as a module lecturer in a typical semester of 18 weeks.

On top of all these, you are also expected to lead students to take part in projects that yield successful outcomes such as the Lee Kuan Yew Technology Award projects. If you're not into projects, you should lead students to take part in major competitions like World Skills and Asean Skills competitions which hopefully culminates in the students winning some award that translates to a successful outcome. So the very definition of a successful outcome basically means the students win something. Minor competitions also abound from time to time and even if you win, don't be too happy yet as these being miniscule in nature, they will usually play a secondary role towards how the management feels towards your contributions and performance.

Whatever I have mentioned above is the workload of a typical average performing lecturer in ITE. Hope this helps.

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