Career as Teacher

Originally Posted by Unregistered

A friend who got promoted to 5A told me he received only about $200. This is his merit plus promotion increment. My merit increment alone is bigger than his. They can't give too much increment to 5A I guess otherwise they will reach the ceiling too quickly.

How old is the friend who got promoted to 5A? What is his job scope like?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

A friend who got promoted to 5A told me he received only about $200. This is his merit plus promotion increment. My merit increment alone is bigger than his. They can't give too much increment to 5A I guess otherwise they will reach the ceiling too quickly.

Max of geo5 and max of geo5a is only around $800 apart. They cannot let the increments be too high. If not will hit ceiling again in 2-3 years.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Yup, and now that he is at 5A, it will become more difficult to get B or A grades compared to at 5, as they are now ranked against the cream of the crop of the HOTs.

It's all part of the plan...

Wouldn’t it be better to stay at 5 then? Better for well being

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Wouldn’t it be better to stay at 5 then? Better for well being

The first rule is to never say no to promotion.

You don't know when the next promotion will come. Also, saying no to promotion doesn't mean your workload won't increase.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Yup, and now that he is at 5A, it will become more difficult to get B or A grades compared to at 5, as they are now ranked against the cream of the crop of the HOTs.

It's all part of the plan...

I wonder how will ranking be for GEO 5A. My school only has one right now.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I wonder how will ranking be for GEO 5A. My school only has one right now.

My guess is that it will be at cluster level similar to the SEOs.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

The first rule is to never say no to promotion.

You don't know when the next promotion will come. Also, saying no to promotion doesn't mean your workload won't increase.

im not so sure for this one...just like how there is differentiated workload between g4 and 5, it should be similar for 5 and 5a

compensation wise - g5 workload + c grade, or g5a workload + c- grade (+200 monthly)?

for an average performer, this might just end up being the same going either way?

but simple mathematical statistics will show us that ranking for 5a will be brutal, since the population size is so little and assuming the bell curve model is still used

Originally Posted by Unregistered

[2022] GEO2 (Untrained): 2300-5000 (graduates start here)
[2022] GEO2 (Trained): 2950-5200
[2022] GEO3: 3900-6250
[2022] GEO4: 4800-7700
[2022] GEO5: 5150-8250
[2022] GEO5A: 5650-9050 (max salary grade for standard teacher)
[2022] SEO1: 6400-10250 (min. LH/SH/ST)
[2022] SEO2: 7850-11650 (min. HOD/LT)
[2022] SEO3: 9800-13700 (min. HOD/MT)

Principals are in the SEO3 range?

SEO3 is the highest range already? How come still can be below 5 figures, unbelievably low

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Principals are in the SEO3 range?

SEO3 is the highest range already? How come still can be below 5 figures, unbelievably low

Principals, some Master Teachers, Lead Specialists, DDs etc. are on Superscale grades, not on the SEO or GEO timescales.

Was wondering how long service award is calculated...

Me: AED scheme (6) + GEO scheme (4) = 10 years
Friend: AED scheme (6) + MX scheme (4) = 10 years

Friend received long service award last year for 10 years but I didn't. How so? TIA