In terms of manpower numbers and labour costs, your argument does make a lot of sense...

Unfortunately, education may be a sector that the government sees as sensitive, so they probably will not immediately open the floodgates of accepting foreigners. Their basis for selection may be similar to defence (MINDEF) and security (MHA), where foreigner recruitment is minimised as well.

Cannot have extra manpower, cannot increase labour budget too. Will this become a dying sector?

Is it really worth to be LH or ST in the school ?

If you think you will make it to SEO3 (VP equivalent) or beyond (P) Yes.
If not, probably not.

HOT like me aged 40 at GEO5 celing.

Agree with your point, BUT it is necessary to caveat to younger officers - especially those who joined after 2015, that you may not hit the GEO5 salary ceiling by age 40. You will probably be at the GEO5 subgrade, but very unlikely at/near the ceiling.

What is "worth" to you? Do you find meaning and purpose in your work?
Do you wish to invest more in your own growth, and take interest in the development and growth of others?

Or do you mean in terms of salary?

It it does not come at a great cost to what you hold dear and not with painful sacrifices, go ahead.

My advice is not to take what you hear here with a pinch of salt (including mine) because forums may not be a proportionate representation of the views out there.

My secondment to an independent school is about to end. Should I change to become direct hire?

yes
 

yes, you can and should. hide away from from schools

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Hey there, got 60 RP for my A levels. Currently one year from finishing NS. Goal is to become a math teacher at either secondary schools or JCs.

Would SUSS part time mathematics degree be eligible for NIE PDGE with degree pay? Planning to take the part time math degree while working as a relief teacher under the MOE scheme for relief educators.

Is this route feasible or are there better pathways to become a math teacher in sec/jc? Born year 2000 btw

Your options are:
1. Retake A levels and get better grades. And apply for NIE.
2. Accept that you can only be a math tutor at best.

Recruitment has slowed, especially for STEM subjects. All hires now are on the teaching scholar programme, and recipients of local scholarship or study award are channeled to NIE to do their degree directly, instead of the pgde route.

And SUSS is not really recognised. More so for part time degrees.

dont get the logic of forcing gaza strip topic to every form teacher to teach, while some are more vocal, some really coulndt give a damn on what this conflict is and yet teach, because every teacher is a cce teacher.. confirm backfire see la see la

Later teach wrong stuff. This should be covered by history or social studies.

Does the school allow you to be a direct hire in the first place?

If you're happy with the environment and student profile, and can live with the fact that leadership positions are harder to come by, then… why not?

Hi, I'm planning to leave teaching after semester 2 this year. Is there anything me stopping for leaving at the end of June (just as the new school term starts) so that I can receive salary for the holidays as well? Also, how is the salary cycle calculated if I leave on say 26 June? Is it prorated by the past month? From which date? Thanks in advance!

Pardon me for asking this - are SIM and SUSS recognise? Are there such grads teaching in our local schs?

As far as I know, it is recognised for emplacement for existing teachers, but for fresh BTs, most of their degrees are either from NUS, NTU or NIE.

Yes I am from SUSS and am teaching in a primary school. I went through PGDE in NIE

For me, yes. One thing I absolutely hate is to be brought up during appraisal and let the heads rank me, which we all know that it is not entirely a very far and transparent process. I had my fair share of being shot for ridiculous things which they claimed that I did, which are untrue. Being a KP means that your perf grade will be determined by SLs or at most with some senior KP’s input, particularly your RO. Also, depending on schools, you might not be a form or cca teacher.

At the same time, being appointed means that you take on greater responsibilities, which likely equate to better performance grade, and faster promotion. You might also get small allowance if you are in the GEO sub grade.

But…

If your school still tax SH heavily, needing them to run cca, being a form teacher, having little to no reduction in workload, then no. You must also like being an RO, don’t mind having additional exco meetings, and being given additional planning work to do. At times, your heads might also taichi sai jobs that he/she doesn’t want to do to you.

I do love being a KP tbh, but I have seen many struggle and even stepped down.So…it really depends on your preference.

Yes, I was from SIM-UOL and now currently teaching in a primary school. But I must say is very very very rare to find us as NIE PDGE, BT.

Is it very hard, as an RO to justify good grades for your subordinates during ranking?

Are there VPs out there for are of SEO 1 subgrade?

Yes, both of my school's new VPs in the last 6 years were appointed while at SEO1, and were subsequently promoted to SEO2 within a year or two. They were quite young, mid/late 30s.

im guessing theyre scholars?

We didn't ask, nor assume. Does it really matter?

Not worth. I'm an internal SH now at GEO3. Only at my 5th year and I've regretted not leaving last year. Having to do relief every morning sucks. No time for marking sucks. Teaching PSLE subs but yet having to do department works sucks. Really have the feels to just throw letter. MOE has really burned my passion to be a teacher. I don't even have time to plan good lessons for my students because I'm doing unnecessary work that I'm not paid well enough to do.

I feel you. So I'm leaving. I don't see myself here anymore, or at least in this school. But I'm also not ready to jump from one hell to another deeper hell. Seems like my friends' schools are also the same and my batch of NIE mates are tendering one by one. So since I made the decision to leave, I've only focused my energy on my students and class. Other than that, forget it. No one's going to clap for you even if you've done well. In this system, it's about how loud and noisy you are. People like me who just do their work diligently will just be burried to death. Whereas GEO5 people can gossip and talk about 'lim ko pi' and do cockpit only. So forget it. Leave while you still can.

Why does it take so long for a GEO 3 teacher to get promoted to Geo4? The career progression is so slow after 2015.

How do they calculate a teacher's CEP btw?

MOE slammed the brakes on promotion rates, but imo it was terribly mismanaged. Especially the geo3 to geo4 promotions. Geo3 is still seen as an entry-level grade for teachers newly confirmed to service, and to keep teachers at geo3 for 5, 6, even 8 years is a yearly cold slap in the face.

The brakes were not gradually applied, they were shoved so hard that the difference in advancement rates is blindingly obvious between the Gen X teachers and the younger ones, while no effort was made by HR to communicate and rationalise this to the larger service.

High CEP people also promote so slow. Why are they still at SEO1 when they are already assessed to be suitable for school leadership? Age should not be such a huge factor in one's subgrade.

SEO1 VPs....

What a joke

Not very important. Just that based on age, they probably are.

There are still quite a few officers at that age...at GEO3

Where are you looking to go if you leave teaching? What’s your Uni degree?

Agree also. Kena squeezed dry by MOE sia......

Sociology.

Haiz. No idea. But I’m really tired of here. I feel like I may just look for any job just to get out of this hell.

There are a few GEO 3 KPs in my school. geo 3 pay to do KP job, really not worth it. MOE
taking forever to promote geo3 teachers no wonder a lot of them quit. Fed up already

"How dare you have leadership and management competencies at the tender age of 30?"

- MOE probably

How long have you / they been GEO3 KPs?

Should we take a page from SAF
mE1.1 me1.2 me 1.3

So we can create sub rank for each GEO
This way every 1-2 years get a promotion

Ppl satisfied and won’t leave

Now GEO3 still can take on KP appointment meh? Thought need GEO4 to be formally appointed.

GEO3 at best, can only be internal KPs.

Last time that is called 1A1, 1A2, 1A3

And people do promote every 2-3 years.

People seem to have forgotten that these grades, or the newer GEO1,2,3,4,5,5A, are ultimately still timescale grades for rank and file.

Chiong to the max grade, and slowly farm the annual increment.

This is also why the salary range is so broad for geo5.
For people to hentak kaki and farm their annual $100-200 increments until they hit retirement.