Career as Teacher

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Seen a couple of long-sitting HOD humanities across secondary schools becoming lead teachers in the past two years. Wonder if they are asked to do so by MOE to make way for leadership renewal. Other subjects experiencing this as well?

There is both push and pull.

Pull: If you have kept up with recent things said by political office holders, they are expanding the numbers of Lead and Master Teachers across the fraternity. So there are LT vacancies opening up and the Teaching Track bottleneck is no longer as narrow.

Push: Leadership renewal lor. Or the HODs themselves are tired of the constant s&&t especially during covid years and choose to cross over instead of step down back to HOT.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Most likely they entered service much earlier , and were above average. Most likely They entered before the slow down of promotion

I reached Geo 5 at 32.
Not a scholar, but consistently A/B grade. Appointed SH and subsequently HOD.
I would think that good perf plus faster promotion then played a part in that.

Hi guys, does anyone know how much a secondary school teacher earns as a fresh teacher out from NIE/Degree holder?

s://.straitstimes.com/singapore/parenting-education/salaries-of-teachers-counsellors-and-other-moe-officers-being-reviewed-chan-chun-sing

Guess this all but confirms that there'll be an adjustment coming… just not sure when, or by how much. 🤞

Originally Posted by Unregistered

s://.straitstimes.com/singapore/parenting-education/salaries-of-teachers-counsellors-and-other-moe-officers-being-reviewed-chan-chun-sing

Guess this all but confirms that there'll be an adjustment coming… just not sure when, or by how much. 🤞

Going by past trends in 2012 and 2015, it should be announced near Teacher's Day

Originally Posted by Unregistered

s://.straitstimes.com/singapore/parenting-education/salaries-of-teachers-counsellors-and-other-moe-officers-being-reviewed-chan-chun-sing

Guess this all but confirms that there'll be an adjustment coming… just not sure when, or by how much. 🤞

Hope they really mean it when they claim they keep pace with the market. If anyone has undergone any job interviews recently (as in, after covid recovery) with private education sector including tuition, you'll know that we are between 'somewhat' and 'embarrassingly far' below market for equivalent level of responsibility, experience, and academic (esp. teaching-related) qualifications.

I didn't even come up with 'keeping pace with the market' myself. It's literally what PSD says. But they've not been doing it.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Hope they really mean it when they claim they keep pace with the market. If anyone has undergone any job interviews recently (as in, after covid recovery) with private education sector including tuition, you'll know that we are between 'somewhat' and 'embarrassingly far' below market for equivalent level of responsibility, experience, and academic (esp. teaching-related) qualifications.

I didn't even come up with 'keeping pace with the market' myself. It's literally what PSD says. But they've not been doing it.

Is it true that there was a review back in 2018/2019 but the salaries were deemed "still competitive" back then?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I reached Geo 5 at 32.
Not a scholar, but consistently A/B grade. Appointed SH and subsequently HOD.
I would think that good perf plus faster promotion then played a part in that.

May I ask when you achieved this? And if you are male or female? If male, that's probably the fastest possible time you could attain geo5. Assuming you start working at age 27,1 year of geo2, 2 years each of geo3 and 4. Before getting geo5. Must have bene possible back when there was no cap of GEO4 to be appointed KP.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

May I ask when you achieved this? And if you are male or female? If male, that's probably the fastest possible time you could attain geo5. Assuming you start working at age 27,1 year of geo2, 2 years each of geo3 and 4. Before getting geo5. Must have bene possible back when there was no cap of GEO4 to be appointed KP.

Last time PGDE not so waste time one. You grad from uni in May/June, your PGDE starts in July for one sem, then following Feb-Apr is your practicum, and then you start BTship in June, exactly one year after your university graduation.

Hi all,
I’m interested to know more about the FLP. Can anyone who’s in FLP share how you were invited to join FLP? (Possibly also what was your age, substantive grade and what commitments you were undertaking around the time you were emplaced to FLP)? My HOD briefly mentioned about FLP as he was a PSC scholar then, but not too sure about the inner workings about it.

How can I go about to increase my chances?