Career as Teacher

My last day jun 30

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Originally Posted by Unregistered

The payscale doesn't change annually. There'll be big announcements every time there's a salary revision. The last one in 2022 is thus the most updated version.

Past 2 decades there's been about 2 to 3 revisions. Seeing the current economic situation, not sure if the frequency of revisions will be reduced.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

OP here seeking advice. What would be roles in HQ I should look out for - which will help me greatly for SD (not very interested in IP)

Look out for open posting by SDCD. CCE branch is under them. Mainly, your office will be at Grange road.

[Munchen]

Im trying to understand why every staff under MOE is overworked and unhappy? This encompasses teaching, counselling, admin, IT staff.

What is it that MOE is not doing well such that we have staff unhappy with their workload and work-life balance? Cutting manpower due to limited budget?

Originally Posted by Munchen

Im trying to understand why every staff under MOE is overworked and unhappy? This encompasses teaching, counselling, admin, IT staff.

What is it that MOE is not doing well such that we have staff unhappy with their workload and work-life balance? Cutting manpower due to limited budget?

Because the toxic work culture in MOE is built upon a warped appraisal system.

If you ask officers from other ministries, their appraisal is mainly based on their core work. For example, economists mainly spend their time on analyzing economic trends, engineers mainly focus on technical operations, policy planners focusing on planning work. Maybe contribute a bit in committee work, like organising annual staff dinner or departmental outings.

Otherwise got professional officers to handle corporate roles.

Meanwhile school officers wear too many additional hats, to the point that emphasis in teaching is outshone.

Epms becomes a list of what additional stuff an officer has done.

Double hatting as:
procurement officers (handles sourcing, AORS, quotes, raising gebiz, evaluate tenders, awarding tenders)
Coach (certain sports and clubs, the teachers are the main instructors)
Counsellor to student (teacher counsellor)
Counsellor to colleagues (wellness ambassador)
Communications (need to produce school publications, manage school websites, handle school social media accounts)
Researchers (need to plan and conduct education research)
AV support (need to do AV duties for small events such as school meetings, to large events such as school celebrations)
Tech support (administrator to perform reset of various student accounts)
Secondment (arrowed to do seab exam duty, eld election duty)
First aider (expected to deliver first aid in event of emergency)

No such nonsense in other govt roles.

Manpower is sufficient if teachers are expected to focus mainly on teaching and appraised accordingly.

Manpower will always be insufficient if teachers are piled on more and more non-core work, work that makes the school and SLs look good, at the expense of officers' health and family time.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Secondment (arrowed to do seab exam duty, eld election duty)

No such nonsense in other govt roles.

Just a minor correction here - plenty of non-MOE staff get arrowed to do election duties.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Just a minor correction here - plenty of non-MOE staff get arrowed to do election duties.

To correct your correction...

The ratio of MOE staff to non-MOE staff is still much greater.

1. Many election venues used are schools.

2. Historically, election dates/periods are held during school holidays.

Hence, all these make it much easier to activate teachers for election duties.

Any teacher mummies gave birth in September before?
How did you fully utilise the 4-month maternity leave?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Any teacher mummies gave birth in September before?
How did you fully utilise the 4-month maternity leave?

it is possible to break up maternity leave so that you get your December protected time. can check with HR

Originally Posted by Unregistered

To correct your correction...

The ratio of MOE staff to non-MOE staff is still much greater.

1. Many election venues used are schools.

2. Historically, election dates/periods are held during school holidays.

Hence, all these make it much easier to activate teachers for election duties.

Hmm… do you have stats, or is this just based on deduction? (I don't know the answer myself, just wanted to know if this is confirmed.)

On their own, I feel the above two reasons aren't particularly strong reasons to activate teachers in particular:
1) Officers tend to be assigned to polling stations near their registered address (regardless of where they work); there's no real need to activate more teachers just because schools are election venues.

2) Polling Day is a public holiday; there's no real advantage to activating teachers over other officers.

I will admit that I feel I've seen many teachers deployed as election officers; but this has been anecdotal on my part. Is there anything that confirms this observation?