Career as Teacher

I am almost nearing my 10 years of teaching.
Currently feel very much burned out by everything that happened this year.
I just find that school programmes are very tightly packed and there is no breathing space. Not sure if this is my school thing or across the nation?

Thinking of tendering my resignation end of this year.
I think I don’t fit well into the system although I spent a decade trying to do so.
What can one do beyond teacher?

Also what if I would like to switch to flexi-adjunct in another school? Will this option be viable if I resign this year?

I know we should not be a quitter but if I continued this way, I really feel like losing my hope to live. So I thought the alternative is to quit even though I am put my financial health at risk. T_T

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Thanks for sharing the concerns. It is very eye-opening to understand how teaching jobs have evolved over the years from one that is centred mostly on teaching and delivering the syllabus, to one that involves anything and everything such as mental health, CCA, sex ed, admin, school events, logistics, etc. perhaps institutionalise a team of non-teaching staffs in each school whose role is to coordinate and manage these non-teaching activities (of course they may rope in teachers flto provide support and assistance and brainstorming). This will offload teachers workload substantially??

The problem is that if everyone just focus on teaching, there is little for management to carry out performance appraisal on.

At the end of the day, the system demands a quota of A, B, C and Ds.

The amount of non-teaching work people take on will then be the deciding factor.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

The problem is that if everyone just focus on teaching, there is little for management to carry out performance appraisal on.

At the end of the day, the system demands a quota of A, B, C and Ds.

The amount of non-teaching work people take on will then be the deciding factor.

But of course, right? Performance as a teacher, appraised based on how well you take care of $10k worth of assets, or how well you supervised the vendor in setting up the tentage for the school event.

Screw the performance appraisal

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Screw the performance appraisal

volunteering for a 'D'?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

s://singaporeuncensored.com/teacher-quits-job-for-new-employment-in-i-t-industry-earn-much-more-can-wfh/

wfh or not, important thing is to take care of your own mental health and do what you enjoy without regrets

Originally Posted by Unregistered

volunteering for a 'D'?

Im so scared .

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Thanks for sharing the concerns. It is very eye-opening to understand how teaching jobs have evolved over the years from one that is centred mostly on teaching and delivering the syllabus, to one that involves anything and everything such as mental health, CCA, sex ed, admin, school events, logistics, etc. perhaps institutionalise a team of non-teaching staffs in each school whose role is to coordinate and manage these non-teaching activities (of course they may rope in teachers flto provide support and assistance and brainstorming). This will offload teachers workload substantially??

Every teacher a Form Teacher
Every teacher a CCA Teacher
Every teacher a Committee Member
Every teacher a CCE Teacher
Every teacher a First Aid Trained Teacher
Every teacher a S.Ed Trained Teacher
Every teacher an E-Pedagogy Facilitator

Was anything missed out?

I guess some people manage to "exempt" themselves from some of these. But most will be carrying these workload?

Teaching is our bread and butter. At the end of the day, other than projects and initiatives, the most important of all is as a math/English/science teacher, can you produce result? Performance ranking can be based on tt or by qualitative survey too.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Teaching is our bread and butter. At the end of the day, other than projects and initiatives, the most important of all is as a math/English/science teacher, can you produce result? Performance ranking can be based on tt or by qualitative survey too.

Partially true. But I will say ranking is also about HOW you work with colleagues (especially KPs) since it’s really about perception. Even if you do a lot, if their perception of you isn’t good, you will never be good. But if their perception of you is good, the little that you contributed will be seen as ‘very good’ work done and they will amplify it. KPI in teaching is really unquantifiable. Ranking is really perception and how you can convince majority of the KPs that you are good.