Career as Teacher

8 years of geo3 n counting woohoo

Originally Posted by Unregistered

8 years of geo3 n counting woohoo

I also work for 8 years in geo 3 scale and still no promotion. If they are not going to promote us geo 3 teachers, more teachers will quit

Could it be that your respective schools have yet to announce promotees? Some schools do it later next week..

How much influence does a P have on promotions? In a school where average and slightly average non KPs can hit GEO5 by mid to late 30s, with 2 to 4 years between each promotion. KP SHs can get from geo5 to seo1 in 2 to 3 years and HODs are almost all already promoted to seo2. Not all are fantastic and obviously some are just coasting. So reading about the disparity here is quite scary

Originally Posted by Unregistered

How much influence does a P have on promotions? In a school where average and slightly average non KPs can hit GEO5 by mid to late 30s, with 2 to 4 years between each promotion. KP SHs can get from geo5 to seo1 in 2 to 3 years and HODs are almost all already promoted to seo2. Not all are fantastic and obviously some are just coasting. So reading about the disparity here is quite scary

You may have heard the saying from the old days of CEP: "How often you may be promoted depends on your potential (i.e., CEP), but whether you are actually promoted at each given juncture depends on your performance (i.e., ranked performance appraisal and also panel recommendation)".

The P and the panel can essentially block your promotion with a poor or mediocre performance appraisal in a year that you are flagged for promotion, whether intentionally to block a promotion, or not.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I also work for 8 years in geo 3 scale and still no promotion. If they are not going to promote us geo 3 teachers, more teachers will quit

5 years for me in GEO3
But I did take 2 x maternity leave and also extended NPL for about 1-2 months each time.
Still, hearing people who get to GEO4 after just 2-3 years, I am still much slower.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

How much influence does a P have on promotions? In a school where average and slightly average non KPs can hit GEO5 by mid to late 30s, with 2 to 4 years between each promotion. KP SHs can get from geo5 to seo1 in 2 to 3 years and HODs are almost all already promoted to seo2. Not all are fantastic and obviously some are just coasting. So reading about the disparity here is quite scary

Fast promotions are probably more heavily dependent on the attitude of the school's/division's panel towards taking calculated risks in pushing people up.

It's very easy to just leave an officer's career trajectory as it is, by saying "wait and see", "the officer needs more time to grow" yada yada, but the ships here sail very fast.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

How much influence does a P have on promotions? In a school where average and slightly average non KPs can hit GEO5 by mid to late 30s, with 2 to 4 years between each promotion. KP SHs can get from geo5 to seo1 in 2 to 3 years and HODs are almost all already promoted to seo2. Not all are fantastic and obviously some are just coasting. So reading about the disparity here is quite scary

Very little actually. After they submit the ranking, HR just comes back with the list of potential promotees and asks whether they will support/recommend them for promotion or not. Most of the time they will support - unless the officer has something that makes them think twice.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

How much influence does a P have on promotions? In a school where average and slightly average non KPs can hit GEO5 by mid to late 30s, with 2 to 4 years between each promotion. KP SHs can get from geo5 to seo1 in 2 to 3 years and HODs are almost all already promoted to seo2. Not all are fantastic and obviously some are just coasting. So reading about the disparity here is quite scary

Not unusual. My sch is quite similar too. 2 years is rare except at lower grades, but 3-4 years between each promotion is very common and regular.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

5 years for me in GEO3
But I did take 2 x maternity leave and also extended NPL for about 1-2 months each time.
Still, hearing people who get to GEO4 after just 2-3 years, I am still much slower.

i dunno abt where you teach, but where i do (jc) work is very much in a cycle which lasts a year so i don’t see how someone on maternity contributes as muc in terms of impact, so you are lucky. ur promotion is fast