Career as Teacher

Originally Posted by Unregistered

So many flowery but unhelpful motherhood statements here. The truth is not all HQ postings are equal. Yes, all HQ postings can be useful, but only when there is a match in aspirations and strengths. For an aspiring pedagogical leader, only those postings that expose you to curriculum/assessment policy, curriculum planning and design, pedagogical innovation and research, or professional development of teachers will be useful.

Clearly someone who hasn't been to HQ.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Huh saying rhat taking up LT means being stuck makes no sense. Its no different than doing the leadership track. There's only so many spaces for VP or P so a lot of people are stuck at HOD.

As an LT going to HQ isnt that useful cause you're not doing what you need to do which is to hone teaching skills and guiding teachers.

After getting your LT, what next? Unless one of the MTTs step down, that's the end of the path. And even if have MTT vacancy, they will pick the one with Leadership/HQ experience.

From reddit:

I have a sibling who's an MOE teacher and I hear these constant complaints about their job all the time. In my opinion they're just frogs in a well and under-appreciate how relatively easy, stable and well-paid their jobs are compared to the outside world. Not entirely their fault too, they literally spend their entire lives in the artificial environment of a school. And of course the common rebuttal is if it's so good why aren't more people signing up to be teachers. I think the straight forward answer is not many people want to be confined to the school system their whole lives.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

After getting your LT, what next? Unless one of the MTTs step down, that's the end of the path. And even if have MTT vacancy, they will pick the one with Leadership/HQ experience.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

After getting your LT, what next? Unless one of the MTTs step down, that's the end of the path. And even if have MTT vacancy, they will pick the one with Leadership/HQ experience.

Either you are very young or you have been getting a very prejudiced view of how one becomes MTT. MTT is relatively new. There are always active recruitments of MTT in many subject areas. Both LTs in my school went for a tea session. One went to AST while the other went to ELIS. To become MTT, one has to do a lot more research on the pedagogy approaches. They have a list of areas which they want potential MTT to focus on. They also need MTT to know their basic pedagogies well. The fact is - both LTs in my school are barely coping with their work. One of them kept complaining that she was not identified because she had no HQ experience etc.

The simple fact - she should thank god that someone was blinded enough to give her a LT-ship. Whatever you said was very biased and was not true at all....

Originally Posted by Unregistered

From reddit:
I have a sibling who's an MOE teacher and I hear these constant complaints about their job all the time. In my opinion they're just frogs in a well and under-appreciate how relatively easy, stable and well-paid their jobs are compared to the outside world. Not entirely their fault too, they literally spend their entire lives in the artificial environment of a school. And of course the common rebuttal is if it's so good why aren't more people signing up to be teachers. I think the straight forward answer is not many people want to be confined to the school system their whole lives.

Sometimes, some people do not appreciate the Garden of Eden until they have been exposed to the evils of the world.

Then when they regret, it is too late.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

From reddit:

I have a sibling who's an MOE teacher and I hear these constant complaints about their job all the time. In my opinion they're just frogs in a well and under-appreciate how relatively easy, stable and well-paid their jobs are compared to the outside world. Not entirely their fault too, they literally spend their entire lives in the artificial environment of a school. And of course the common rebuttal is if it's so good why aren't more people signing up to be teachers. I think the straight forward answer is not many people want to be confined to the school system their whole lives.

Then it means it is not good lor

If the environment is really so good, many people don't mind being confined to somewhere their whole lives

Gimme a cushy low stress overpaid job, I'm very sure I confirm wouldn't leave

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Clearly someone who hasn't been to HQ.

Yeah HQ people love their motherhood statements that unpack into nothing practical or actionable.

Notices the phenomenon of people with KP aspirations having that "i am hard to please/get out of my face" look. Do people really think such an attitude will get them to climb to management? Tsk tsk these millenials.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Notices the phenomenon of people with KP aspirations having that "i am hard to please/get out of my face" look. Do people really think such an attitude will get them to climb to management? Tsk tsk these millenials.

it definitely is cringey, especially when you didnt see this side of them in previous years. i avoid them like a plague because in the process of ascending the ladder, they will be willing to throw anyone under the bus.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Yeah HQ people love their motherhood statements that unpack into nothing practical or actionable.

How to be LT with such mindset?