Career as Teacher

Originally Posted by Unregistered

How to max out fajts?

There is a quota calculated for each school. The quota depends on several factors like student population, student profile, subject offerings, perm teaching staff headcount. Ordinarily, a school cannot hire more FAJTs than their quota allows, except in the most exceptional circumstances.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

How to stay in teaching? Teaching used to be something noble and respectable....

Change job asap while you can

Daily reminder:

Do not say do it ur F self to anyone.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I'm quite curious about what happens to the school, classes or the department when 2 or 3 people from the same department resigns at the same time within short notice.

Anyone witnessed this before?

Seen a number of times with different departments.

Some subjects like Art, Music, CPA, FCE, DnT, which are compulsory subjects but somehow have very small headcounts of around 3 teachers. When 1 leaves, the remaining 2 are in big trouble. When 2 leave, the sole remaining teacher is forced to leave too, because there's no way one person can teach the entire school. Hiring FAJTs doesn't help much that teacher much (if there are even FAJTs available to be hored in the first place). In such cases where the entire team of subject teachers left and no FAJTs could be hired, got see schools resort to outsourcing the subject to vendors.

Also seen situations in which "additional headcounts" are mustered by redeploying teachers to teach their CS2s and even CS3s to plug manpower gaps.
It is sad to see teachers being asked to suddenly teach subjects they haven't taught for over 10, 20 years.

Ps and HR can also interfere with posting, and hold back people to meet manpower needs.

Anyway, don't let such concerns hold you back if anyone is planning to leave service.

The official stance from HQ Is that teachers are in excess, and there's too much pride in the moe leadership to admit that they are wrong, and schools are understaffed. Someone probably received awards and promotions for implementing lean management practices in MOE, the new trendy buzzword in management, conveniently ignoring the fact that unlike the private sector, public services cannot afford to fail, cannot afford to close down due to lack of manpower.

As long as moe leadership continues to insist that teachers are in excess, not even acknowledging that there is a problem, headcount woes will only worsen.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Anyway, don't let such concerns hold you back if anyone is planning to leave service.

The official stance from HQ Is that teachers are in excess, and there's too much pride in the moe leadership to admit that they are wrong, and schools are understaffed. Someone probably received awards and promotions for implementing lean management practices in MOE, the new trendy buzzword in management, conveniently ignoring the fact that unlike the private sector, public services cannot afford to fail, cannot afford to close down due to lack of manpower.

As long as moe leadership continues to insist that teachers are in excess, not even acknowledging that there is a problem, headcount woes will only worsen.

Unfortunately, the most effective signal that can be made (better than slow-moving climate and working hour surveys) might well be a spike in resignation rates…

Best time to resign is tmr!

MOE is not going to hire anymore teachers because student numbers are projected to continuously decrease after next year (dragon babies). If we can somehow survive through the next two years the manpower situation should get better.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

MOE is not going to hire anymore teachers because student numbers are projected to continuously decrease after next year (dragon babies). If we can somehow survive through the next two years the manpower situation should get better.

You think so? I'm guessing teacher numbers will decrease at a higher rate than student numbers. There is just no more pragmatic reason to stay in MOE. You just have to send out a bunch of resumes outside, especially if you are a KP or TL with genuinely good leadership skills, and your T&L is good. You'll realise how green the grass is on the other side, and it's not just an illusion.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Unfortunately, the most effective signal that can be made (better than slow-moving climate and working hour surveys) might well be a spike in resignation rates…

haha. there are many ppl aspiring to move up and up

Originally Posted by Unregistered

You think so? I'm guessing teacher numbers will decrease at a higher rate than student numbers. There is just no more pragmatic reason to stay in MOE. You just have to send out a bunch of resumes outside, especially if you are a KP or TL with genuinely good leadership skills, and your T&L is good. You'll realise how green the grass is on the other side, and it's not just an illusion.

for those who love teaching like myself there is nowhere else to go