Career as Teacher

Originally Posted by Unregistered

You really think that the younger teachers are smarter and more savvy? Do you see the kind of questions I this thread where a simple search would suffice - "when does open posting start", "When will the connect plan pay out"?, "if I quit before x date, will I still qualify for connect plan pay out?" "what's the difference between open and closed posting"

People who come here and waste time flaming each other or asking dumb questions are at the bottom of the barrel. The average teacher doesn't even bother, they're doing their work on school days and having a life during the weekends and holidays.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

If you have been given an internal position and told that you will be groomed for a formal position, how long would it usually take? In the mean time, is it possible for them to assign someone external to take over the formal position which is currently open?

Yes, possible. Have seen cases where the internal KP got played out by the P.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Nah, it's got nothing to do with promotion for the sake of promotion. The name/number of the subgrade means nothing. It's got all to do with getting a fair salary for the work done. All experienced classroom teachers do the same job at heart, so there's no reason for such wide salary disparity.

I'm sure regular classroom teachers with no management aspirations won't mind being stuck at the GEO5/5A ceiling for a long time, rather than getting pathetic 2% increments per year and getting their two promotions spread out evenly across the next 30 years.

"Spreading out promotions to sustain motivation" is a pathetic line of reasoning for slowing down promotions, because anyone with common sense can see that the area under the curve over one's whole career is larger the sooner one hits 5/5A and/or the ceiling.

Well said. No one cares about the rank.

The reason why they chase after ranks, is because it is tied to salary.

The average performer will hit the salary ceiling of geo3 in 4-6 years.

If still haven't promote before hitting ceiling, it basically means that any increase in workload is not compensated by any increase in pay. Coupled with inflation, pay will lag behind similar-age peers even more.

Also, the higher the base pay, the higher the increment. The faster one promote, the earlier one can hit the geo5/5a ceiling (which isn't too shabby)

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Way to generalize! 👏

Generalising that younger gen = more savvy is ok

Generalising that younger gen = more spoon fed is not ok

Why?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

You really think that the younger teachers are smarter and more savvy? Do you see the kind of questions I this thread where a simple search would suffice - "when does open posting start", "When will the connect plan pay out"?, "if I quit before x date, will I still qualify for connect plan pay out?" "what's the difference between open and closed posting"

Bro this is a forum, not an encyclopedia.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Yes, possible. Have seen cases where the internal KP got played out by the P.

I think have but quite rare la. I heard of one but because change of P... and the new P was quite an ass.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Well said. No one cares about the rank.

The reason why they chase after ranks, is because it is tied to salary.

The average performer will hit the salary ceiling of geo3 in 4-6 years.

If still haven't promote before hitting ceiling, it basically means that any increase in workload is not compensated by any increase in pay. Coupled with inflation, pay will lag behind similar-age peers even more.

Also, the higher the base pay, the higher the increment. The faster one promote, the earlier one can hit the geo5/5a ceiling (which isn't too shabby)

2022] GEO3: 3900-6250
[2022] GEO4: 4800-7700
[2022] GEO5: 5150-8250

This is the current salary range for geo3-5. Assuming an average performer gets a $200 annual merit increment you're looking at ~11 years to go from 3900 - 6250. How would a person be able to hit the salary ceiling in the time u claim. Anyway, for the average performer at the very latest, they will get promoted in their 7th year. If you're taking longer than that, "bottom of the barrel" applies.

As I mentioned, the wide salary range gives rise to unhappiness. If geo4 was split into 2, from 4800 - 6200 and 6200 - 7700, what would be lost?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

2022] GEO3: 3900-6250
[2022] GEO4: 4800-7700
[2022] GEO5: 5150-8250

This is the current salary range for geo3-5. Assuming an average performer gets a $200 annual merit increment you're looking at ~11 years to go from 3900 - 6250. How would a person be able to hit the salary ceiling in the time u claim. Anyway, for the average performer at the very latest, they will get promoted in their 7th year. If you're taking longer than that, "bottom of the barrel" applies.

As I mentioned, the wide salary range gives rise to unhappiness. If geo4 was split into 2, from 4800 - 6200 and 6200 - 7700, what would be lost?

Just randomly passing by here, but I just wish to correct some things.

1. The annual merit increment for an average performer is lower than 200.

2. Most offixers between GEO3 - 5 went through the COVID years, where the annual increment was so low that its almost insignificant (heard it was $50 or something?). That's 3 years of delay there.

3. There's also the issue of officers getting consecutively good grades of C+ and B, but are not promoted. We should collectively agree that these people shouldn't be at the "bottom of the barrel", otherwise why would they deserve good grades?

As for splitting the salary grades...no comment. There's both good and bad for that I suppose

Timing and luck is everything

I gotten 4 C+ and 1 B and still stuck in Geo 3, 8 years liao.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Timing and luck is everything

I gotten 4 C+ and 1 B and still stuck in Geo 3, 8 years liao.

8 years in service, or 8 years in geo3?