Career as Teacher

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Please bang your head to the wall. Bang till cease your existence. Not implying to get yourself killed. Life is precious.

Back to the agenda, international school and normal school is different in terms of education content, grading, school timetable, school holidays etc

The international class schedule is different

Y'all wanna sour so much right that local MOE sch teachers get 6 weeks-ish of paid sch holidays? Just putting it out there that international school teachers get at least 12 weeks of PAID holidays annually. So in other words, your hate towards local teachers' benefits are baseless. Hate teachers globally then!

Psst, bang your head first because I'm actually talking facts from inside an international school.

I think this thread has way too many imposters and sour grapes with nothing better to do than to scour through salary forums to drop their 2 cents worth of bitterness.

Let's stick to constructive comments. Anyway, for the guy who is asking what is the diff between MOE teacher and poly lecturer...there are plenty of differences. From the holidays to academic year. But paywise...it is rather similar. You guys will need to teach night classes (separate pay for that), so on average should be earning more than a normal MOE teacher. But you will also sacrifice more time because got many non-teaching related things to do. Way more than MOE teachers have. You will also have no protected time, but you will get to enjoy annual leave though it is encouraged that you do not take them during curriculum time. During holidays, must go back every day to do other projects like open house. But there's a huge possibility that much of it would be WFH too.

When it comes to the kids, the poly kids these days are like big babies...so not much diff from MOE. You will have to deal with whining teens and their protective parents. It can be ridiculous at times.

Source: Wife MOE teacher. Brother and best friend are poly lecturers.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

according to reddit yeacher salary between 7k to 9k

Then last time the woodgrove sec female HOD, 46yo, $8.8k salary means what?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Then last time the woodgrove sec female HOD, 46yo, $8.8k salary means what?

Rich old spinster? If not married.

Rich old married lady if married.

Main point = Rich.

What do you want it to mean?

E.g. she looks like Lucy Liu.

Want constructive comments and then end up stereotype all college or university students as big babies.

Freaking hypocryties.

Teachers really are having worst attitude, complaining for things that they think not deemed fit/ or the way they envisoned that they should be.


Screw the teachers.

s://.quora.com/Why-are-teachers-in-Singapore-well-paid-compared-to-the-rest-of-the-world

I wouldn’t ever let my kid be a teacher. Lousy job with low pay
The only respect u get is within the school compound (from students).. once outside Teachers are looked down on by most lol
My kid can only be a doctor or lawyer

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I wouldn’t ever let my kid be a teacher. Lousy job with low pay
The only respect u get is within the school compound (from students).. once outside Teachers are looked down on by most lol
My kid can only be a doctor or lawyer

Lol it’s 2024, who the heck still goes “my kid can only be blahblahblah”
So out of touch with reality, your kid will hate you and dump you in an old folks home

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I wouldn’t ever let my kid be a teacher. Lousy job with low pay
The only respect u get is within the school compound (from students).. once outside Teachers are looked down on by most lol
My kid can only be a doctor or lawyer

If your guts are as strong as your words, don't send your kids for public education by the teachers since you love to bash them so much.

Home school them yourself. See if they can become a doctor or lawyer in future, like what you're bragging about right now.

the kids will grown up to be respectable adults without any assistance from the teachers.

lousy teachers with lousy attitudes.