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A lot of the total workload that a given school needs to take on is also not determined by the P, VP or HODs. The total workload has gone up in light of policy driven HBL/BL, FSBB, YOY national reduction of EO headcount. This means that on average, all teachers, not just you, experience greater workload. It is foolish to think that you will always get what you want if you tell your boss to pass the work to somebody else. You may get a temporary respite if you are going through particularly tough periods, but don't abuse it because this comes at the heavy expense of your immediate colleagues. Everyone's plates are equally full because the new normal workload has already changed at the Ministry policy level. |
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16X40 marking load don't make sense, but they are actually happening. E.g. 16 full classes of compulsory subjects like SS, Art, Music etc, where contact time is 1h a week. And since you only see them once a week, therefore need to give weekly homework too. Usually HODs will set a minimum number of graded work they want to see during file checks. Be assured that the issue has been raised many times, in many schools. But management either repeat HQ's line that manpower is in excess, or give excuses that they can't find any replacement. There are schools which had to hire vendors to deliver the lessons, because they don't have teachers. |
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We are always trying to do more and more with less and less. Too bad, even the staffers in HQ are powerless. You can propose whatever you want up to top management and PAHs, but if it is not in line with the prevailing gov narrative, then the Singapore govt style is: I say what, you do what. Not happy, LLST.
You think nobody complained about headcount? Dude. Pretty much the entire ground has been complaining and giving feedback about it for years. There is no school leader in their right mind who thinks they have a "comfortable" number of staff to enact all the new stuff that is being pushed down. But what can they do, on the grand scheme of things? Just sugarcoat it to their teachers to suck it up lor. Zeng hu say do like that, we LL do like that lor. |
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And I hope I will promote this year after few years of Bs! |
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Maybe MCQs still possible for pri school. For sec school and above, questions are usually written responses and essays. And teachers need to read through them thoroughly, because ideas need to be expressed correctly and grammatically. Some students' language skills are really terrible, and you don't want them to teach their peers the wrong thing. And there are terrible assumptions made. These suggestions assumes that there are some students who are competent in the subject, and are able, and are willing to explain to their classmates. Some classes are so bad, usually math classes, where there's no such strong students to do peer learning. More so for NA, NT and tail-end express classes. With FSBB, from what I see, most teachers already do not have time for one-to-one consultation. In my school, the normal timetable ends at 3pm, and I need to continue with additional lessons for grad classes until 5.30pm. Giving less work is not really an option. Work is clearly set out in the SOW. Every class in the level must cover these pieces of work. Students must be given roughly at least 1 piece of work per week. Think this is common practice across schools, no? |
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Ownself nth left to give alr still care bout what other people think lmao
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