Career as Teacher

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Teaching has never been an end by 1 pm, esp if you're in sec sch with all the CCAs, meetings, consultations, etc. etc.

Recently during pandemic, my husband who is now FAJT in his old school saw tremendous changes. Old timer teachers suddenly resign, and the attrition rate also increases. Some of his colleagues who went for cross-level deployment also quit. He receives a lot of offers to teach in schools in Dec, as well as mid-January this year. He is pretty dedicated to his old school so he just stays there. He is feeling a bit down when he saw empty tables in his school where his friends used to be.

As stated, if teaching was never that good, as some people say here, it has become comparatively even worse now, with other professions being able to work from home, while teachers have no options on that.

So not a surprise your husband saw "tremendous changes".

Originally Posted by Unregistered

As stated, if teaching was never that good, as some people say here, it has become comparatively even worse now, with other professions being able to work from home, while teachers have no options on that.

So not a surprise your husband saw "tremendous changes".

It was worse for him during the pandemic. It is unrealistic to conduct a proper lesson in front of 30++ students. I can see from afar some of them not paying attention. In terms of teaching, he feels better to be in classroom compared to Zoom.

Teaching is really a calling. Important to be more empathetic amongst the teaching fraternity.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Teaching has never been an end by 1 pm, esp if you're in sec sch with all the CCAs, meetings, consultations, etc. etc.

Recently during pandemic, my husband who is now FAJT in his old school saw tremendous changes. Old timer teachers suddenly resign, and the attrition rate also increases. Some of his colleagues who went for cross-level deployment also quit. He receives a lot of offers to teach in schools in Dec, as well as mid-January this year. He is pretty dedicated to his old school so he just stays there. He is feeling a bit down when he saw empty tables in his school where his friends used to be.

Agreed with you my secondary school in the east also has many colleagues leaving. Have wanted to leave. But can’t bear to leave behind the perks of seeing so many students zao geng panty everyday. Have been seeing it for the past 10 years. If I change job that is probably what I will miss the most.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Agreed with you my secondary school in the east also has many colleagues leaving. Have wanted to leave. But can’t bear to leave behind the perks of seeing so many students zao geng panty everyday. Have been seeing it for the past 10 years. If I change job that is probably what I will miss the most.

its a choice everyone has to make. not easy to find a balance.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Teaching is really a calling. Important to be more empathetic amongst the teaching fraternity.

Always curious about people using this phrase "Teaching is really a calling".

Does that somehow justify low pay, poor working conditions etc for teachers?

Perhaps if we dropped this cliche statement, the life of teachers will start to improve?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Always curious about people using this phrase "Teaching is really a calling".

Does that somehow justify low pay, poor working conditions etc for teachers?

Perhaps if we dropped this cliche statement, the life of teachers will start to improve?

parents are a key contributor to all these..

It’s a very pathetic situation where the higher-ups only care about scholars (and higher-ups are also scholars themselves), but left with farmers grinding and exploited with little returns.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

It’s a very pathetic situation where the higher-ups only care about scholars (and higher-ups are also scholars themselves), but left with farmers grinding and exploited with little returns.

morale of the story: dont be a specialist where job mobility becomes issues

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Always curious about people using this phrase "Teaching is really a calling".

Does that somehow justify low pay, poor working conditions etc for teachers?

Perhaps if we dropped this cliche statement, the life of teachers will start to improve?

The worst one is still "if so unhappy then leave service, there are many people queueing up to join".

So it's okay to perpetuate the shabby treatment of the bulk of the non-scholar, non-privileged teaching force.

Nowadays the service is so ‘cold’. When you submit resignation, HR processes it so fast like you never existed.