Career as Teacher

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Has anyone here been made to pay if u drop a laptop and has a small dent at the corner?

If the damage is caused by you dropping it then you have to pay. But the Lenovo SSOE devices have hinge issues and those are evaluated on a case by case basis. Quite a few incidents of the hinges randomly seizing up and breaking the screen when the laptop is opened with a normal amount of force.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

If the damage is caused by you dropping it then you have to pay. But the Lenovo SSOE devices have hinge issues and those are evaluated on a case by case basis. Quite a few incidents of the hinges randomly seizing up and breaking the screen when the laptop is opened with a normal amount of force.

Any idea how much? Screen and all no cracks

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Any idea how much? Screen and all no cracks

Not sure about it. So far have only heard of amounts payable for cracked/shattered screens. Your ICT manager or DE will be able to advise.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Not sure about it. So far have only heard of amounts payable for cracked/shattered screens. Your ICT manager or DE will be able to advise.

Then i keep quiet first Hope they dun detect

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Then i keep quiet first Hope they dun detect

I hope u teach ur student this.
Coz honesty is usually the worst policy

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Then i keep quiet first Hope they dun detect

Shame on you, Teacher. So much for integrity, the foundation

Why is MOE using a policy of low salary growth and slow advancement at the entry/lower grades to encourage higher attrition rates? Shouldn't they be trying to encourage attrition at the higher grades e.g. GEO5 ceiling HOTs that are too comfortable to leave? Instead young teachers including expensive scholars are resigning once they complete their bonds and getting 20-30% pay bumps outside.

If the objective is to remove so-called dead weight, the current measures are not effective at all. They are losing more of the wrong demographic.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Why is MOE using a policy of low salary growth and slow advancement at the entry/lower grades to encourage higher attrition rates? Shouldn't they be trying to encourage attrition at the higher grades e.g. GEO5 ceiling HOTs that are too comfortable to leave? Instead young teachers including expensive scholars are resigning once they complete their bonds and getting 20-30% pay bumps outside.

If the objective is to remove so-called dead weight, the current measures are not effective at all. They are losing more of the wrong demographic.

"Deadweights" do not belong to a certain demographics.

MOE could have increased class sizes and solved a lot of problems with one policy. Instead MOE chose to merge many schools and start new ones. Go figure.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

The current salary scale doesn't seem to be published anymore. In 2015, there was an adjustment of the scale + increase to pay for teachers. GEO officers got +4%, SEO got +9%. So here are some estimated figures from me, based on old GEO1 degree-holder scales (will be inaccurate for lower GEO1-2 grades, I think):

GEO1: 2000-4340 (+4%?) (Untrained teacher)
GEO2: 2160-4500 (+4%?) (Trained beginning teacher)
GEO3: 3380-5540 (+4%?)
GEO4: 4450-6912 (+4%?)
GEO5: 4903-7845 (max salary grade for standard teacher)
SEO1: 5184-8316 (+9%?) (min. LH/SH/ST)
SEO2: 7236-9288 (+9%?) (min. HOD/LT)
SEO3: 8748-11232 (+9%?) (min. VP/MT)

Don't think the salary range was adjusted so simply, though - I can confirm that current GEO5 range is 4903-7845. From 2012, minimum increased 2%, Max increased 5%.

Since this is the highest salary point for the bulk of MOE teachers, think it's the most relevant for financial planning purposes. Do share if you have confirmed scale for other grades?

can anybody confirm if the above is still valid?

Think it's been updated along the way… this is what I managed to find via Google.

Hard to verify now (don't think we can check our salary range that easily) I think… but since they've not announced any salary increase since, think can assume it still applies?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Figured I'd bump this - anyone has additional data/edits to suggest? Since this is, after all, the salary.sg forum...

p.s. for teachers without any official appointments, salary grade will cap at GEO5.

GEO1 (Untrained): ? (non-graduates start here)
GEO (Trained): 1600 - 2730
GEO2 (Untrained): 2000-4340 (graduates start here)
GEO2 (Trained): 2538-4500
GEO3: 3515 -5616
GEO4: 4545-7271
GEO5: 4903-7845 (max salary grade for standard teacher)
SEO1: 5651-9064 (min. LH/SH/ST)
SEO2: 7236-10766 (min. HOD/LT)
SEO3: 8748-11232 (+9%?) (min. HOD/MT)